The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule
Italian Fascists honed their ideology in Venezia Giulia, fusing anti-Slavic racism with anti-communist repression.
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Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Welcome to Canada. Here’s Your Tuition Invoice.
Canada turned its campuses into immigration gateways, cashing in on students from abroad. The backlash is reshaping the country’s politics.
The Other Conflict in Kashmir
The contested region has become a flash point in India’s struggle to break its dependence on Chinese lithium.
The Invisible Kuwaitis
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
America Runs on Undocumented Labor
Politicians might complain about illegal immigrants, but American businesses love to exploit these vulnerable workers.
No Friends Here
Democrats are just as deportation-happy as the GOP.
Can 15,000 NSK Citizens Be Wrong?
In the 1980s, the Yugoslav industrial band Laibach raided history’s darkest symbols. In the 1990s, they declared independence from history itself.
Need Germany Exist?
During World War II, one American journalist made a not-so-modest proposal.
From Scapegoats to Citizens
The Left has both a moral and strategic imperative to offer an alternative to anti-immigrant politics.
Shawn Fain: “Solidarity Doesn’t Stop at the Border”
United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.
Mohsen Mahdawi Is Undeterred
In April, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by ICE for over two weeks, despite not being charged with a crime. He spoke to Jacobin about his early life, his incarceration, and why he’s actually optimistic about the prospects for peace.
Britain’s Made-Up Migrant Crisis
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
Citizenship by Algorithm
How India’s biometric ID system turned the promise of social welfare into a tool of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.
The Global Remittance Economy
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.
The British Invasion, Beaten Back
The 1964 arrival of the Beatles in New York City, followed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, heralded two generations of British musicians’ finding massive success with US audiences. But the invasion is now over.
Whatever Happened to #Abolish ICE?
In 2018, #AbolishICE was everywhere. Seven years later, the agency is bigger than ever, yet the slogan’s champions are nowhere to be found.
The Clash of Civilizations, 30 Years Later
At a time of neoliberal triumphalism and the so-called end of history, Samuel Huntington predicted ongoing conflict.
Bring Back the Yugoslav Basketball Team
The breakup of Yugoslavia ended one of basketball’s greatest dynasties. A cross-border team could revive that legacy — and model internationalism in a divided world.
Issue 59: Dossier
A quick guide to border hopping.
The Remarkable Life of Andrée Blouin
The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic highs and tragic lows of the continent’s struggle for independence.