Zachary Levenson interviews Heba Gowayed about her work on the political economy of border securitization and migration.

Abigail Boggs details how US universities have become instruments of mass immigration enforcement and what it would mean to transform them into sites of abolitionist sanctuary.

Doug Hornstein argues against leftist support for immigration restriction by challenging their assumption that immigration hurts workers.

Elaine Wik looks at the political economy subtending the dynamics of conflict and securitization at the India/Bangladesh border.

Rawan Abdelbaki and Rana Sukarieh argue that Zionism is a project of bordering that is both materially embedded in, and helps proliferate, global racial capitalism.

Amidst the US governments' attacks on migrants, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo argues for an anticolonial movement demanding all rights for all, without borders.

Oct 06, 2026, Aaron Boehmer

Every season, there’s a particular sort of novel that elicits its own genre of disdain. It’s somehow “too personal” and also lacking in “depth.” It’s called things like indulgent, trashy, lazy,…

This essay demonstrates how both Apartheid South Africa and Israel operated as outposts of US imperialism during the Cold War in related, connected, and changing ways. In addition, heightening confli...

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How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

Zachary Levenson interviews Heba Gowayed about her work on the political economy of border securitization and migration.

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

D. K Renton compares the ideological balance of power between reactionary hegemons and their allies in the interwar period and today.

Chanda is a scientist and science populariser I adore - whether it is "queering the universe" or explaining how Star Trek has rocked her w

Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.

A New Zealand dock workers' union just did something no major union has done in a century: voted to affiliate with a socialist party alongside Labour.

Matt Seriff-Cullick argues that the MAGA "civil war" over Israel is in fact a staged antagonism, one that turns anti-imperialist anger into fuel for fascist imperialism.

Two comrades look to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.

Shane Burley tracks the Loyalist history fueling the anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast.

Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about ecosocialism and the often overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.

Séamus Malekafzali returns to PTO to talk about the possibility of further escalation in the US war on Iran and about the prospects for a di

Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about ecosocialism and the often overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.

Shane Burley tracks the Loyalist history fueling the anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast.

Two comrades look to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.

A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.

Occasioned by the release of Andor, Jonathan Brown reflects on the class politics of the Star Wars media empire and capitalism's cultural logic.

Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts’ visit to Syria in mid-July 2026 and its subsequent report published a few weeks later in August has been celebrated by various Syrian authorities and officia...

In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.

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Recent comments by Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have drawn more attention to right-wing critiques of U.S. support for Israel. However, it is a serious mistake for those on the left to see this ant...

Matt Seriff-Cullick argues that the MAGA "civil war" over Israel is in fact a staged antagonism, one that turns anti-imperialist anger into fuel for fascist imperialism.

Sophie Lewis reflects on the legacy of influential US feminist Gloria Steinem, who died recently.