Tanner Howard is a freelance journalist and In These Times editorial intern. They’re also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Donald Trump’s mass deportations will do little to improve the lives of American workers. But he is fueling a deportation-industrial complex that funnels billions of dollars into the hands of private companies.
Canada turned its campuses into immigration gateways, cashing in on students from abroad. The backlash is reshaping the country’s politics.
The contested region has become a flash point in India’s struggle to break its dependence on Chinese lithium.
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
Politicians might complain about illegal immigrants, but American businesses love to exploit these vulnerable workers.
Democrats are just as deportation-happy as the GOP.
In the 1980s, the Yugoslav industrial band Laibach raided history’s darkest symbols. In the 1990s, they declared independence from history itself.
During World War II, one American journalist made a not-so-modest proposal.
The Left has both a moral and strategic imperative to offer an alternative to anti-immigrant politics.
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.
Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.
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.
A quick guide to border hopping.
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.
A unified squad could contend with the best America has to offer.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Doubts about the colossal AUKUS military deal are growing. But Donald Trump’s protection-racket tactics and a subservient Australian political class mean it will probably survive.
The Democratic Socialists of America’s recent convention in Chicago reflected the challenges of strengthening and expanding a socialist movement rooted in the working class that can effectively fight the genocide in Gaza.