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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Lines of Revolt

Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)

By LiaisonsMay 7, 2021
This is the first part of a text we will publish in two parts, and which is featured in Liaisons’ forthcoming book, “Horizons.” In the…
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Analysis

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 5, 2021
"You promised me not to break your promise anymore, it is I, dear, who have caused this break." —"All of Asia is indefinitely on hold."
Kazakh postage stamp in tribute to koumiss, a fermented dairy drink
The Austerity Kitchen

Fermented Foods: A History

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 8, 2021
Suspicion of fermented foods owes to a peculiar blend of scientific and market forces so influential as to sway consumer preference in the direction of bland, unappetizing mass-produced substitutes for the zestier originals we can – and did – make ourselves.
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Lines of Revolt

Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection

By Sabu Kohso and LiaisonsDecember 14, 2020
A Letter From Sabu Kohso
Lines of Revolt

Lockdown

By LiaisonsDecember 11, 2020
A Letter From Kolkata
Lines of Revolt

Shaheen Bagh

By LiaisonsDecember 4, 2020
A Letter From Kolkata
Features

Whose Streets?

By Alexia GarciaNovember 13, 2020
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
The Epic Present

Episode One: All The Factory's A Stage

By Aditya BahlOctober 5, 2020
But it was not capitalism alone that determined the workers’ social life both in the factory and the colony.
Lines of Revolt

The Revolution Post-Explosion

By LiaisonsSeptember 11, 2020
A Letter From Beirut
Lines of Revolt

Warning

By LiaisonsSeptember 9, 2020
A Letter From Minneapolis
Features

Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian

By Hil MalatinoAugust 31, 2020
For María Lugones
Features

Woman With a Weapon-Camera

By Yasmina PriceAugust 27, 2020
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
The Epic Present

First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

By Aditya BahlAugust 25, 2020
Hindu nationalism is the modality in which the crisis of postcolonial capitalism is lived.
Essays & Reviews

The Contagious Assembly

By Alex BenhamAugust 24, 2020
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
The Austerity Kitchen

Lunch on the Grass

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 4, 2020
Much of what made life pleasurable is now gone. We must seek out what remains.

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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