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  • Detention camps are concentration camps

    Detention camps are concentration camps

    The Global Detention Project has identified more than 2,000 detention centers worldwide. For corporate powers and global elites borders have been erased, but migrants fleeing violence and economic insecurity are faced with deportation or detainment in inhumane detention centers. Todd Miller responds to the crisis at the border and exposes the contradictions in the government justifying the use of concentration camps to detain migrants.

  • Twenty-First Century Battlefields

    Twenty-First Century Battlefields

    In place of conventional warfare, securocratic wars, waged to protect and secure not individual nations but the international class of wealthy nations, insert themselves into the yawning gaps of global inequalities. Wars on drugs, on terror, on immigrants have created never-ending battlescapes, often along borders. 

  • Boris Johnson: The Embodiment of Tory Decline

    Boris Johnson: The Embodiment of Tory Decline

    "How can we make sense of the passage of the party from serving up fierce class warriors determined to put the labour movement and the working class in its place, to a transparently self-serving charlatan happy to 'fuck business'?" Phil Burton-Cartledge on the election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, and what it says about a Conservative Party in terminal decline.

  • The Meaning of Boris Johnson

    The Meaning of Boris Johnson

    How can we make sense of the passage of the Conservative party from serving up fierce class warriors determined to put the labour movement and the working class in its place, to a transparently self-serving charlatan happy to “fuck business” and drive the UK economy over a cliff in pursuit of the fancies and phantasms of a no deal Brexit? Phil Burton-Cartledge analyses what Boris Johnson, Britain's new prime minister, means for the Conservative party.

  • Beyond Moral Persuasion in the Struggle for Migrant and Refugee Justice

    Beyond Moral Persuasion in the Struggle for Migrant and Refugee Justice

    The United States is currently ground zero in the war against migrants and refugees waged by the global police state. Yet, it is also central to the resistance to that war. Yet, this resistance has so far been driven mainly by a moral outrage and appeals to social justice. In this essay, William I. Robinson offers 5 thesis to considerations necessary to put forward an analysis of the political and structural forces that drive the war against migrants and refugees.

  • By Any Means Necessary

    By Any Means Necessary

    We need a comprehensive vision of ecological reconstruction — and that means having geoengineering as part of our vision.

  • Made in Algeria: Football, Racism, and the Africa Cup of Nations

    Made in Algeria: Football, Racism, and the Africa Cup of Nations

    The progression of the Algerian football team to the final of the African Cup of Nations, the first for 29 years, has sparked both wild scenes of jubilation from the Algerian diaspora across France as well as a racist backlash fuelled by right-wing theories of a ‘great replacement'. In this article, Hector Uniacke discusses the political situation in both France and Algeria, and the high stakes of tonight's final against Senegal.