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The University’s Deportable Workers
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.
What Are We Mourning Now?
Jin Haritaworn challenges the racialized moral panic fueling the carceral and authoritarian responses to attack on Berlin’s Pride.
The Lovers’ International
Emma Heaney reviews Alex Stoffel’s Eros and Empire.
Race, Democracy, and the Politics of Counterrevolution in the United States
Rafael Khachaturian talks with Michael Gorup about the constitutive role racism has played in US “democracy.”
Review of David McNally’s Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
Charles Post and Nick Nesbitt review David McNally’s 2025 book “Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History.”
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion
In a reading of Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today’s far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insists, must respond with a politics of collective freedom rather than appeals to a return to neoliberal normalcy.
On US Intervention and the Venezuelan State
Spectre editors Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes, a longtime Venezeula solidarity activist, as part of Spectre’s ongoing evaluation of the conjuncture in Venezuela.
LA’s Left-Liberal Electoral Problem
Promise Li argues that Los Angeles’s left has grown stronger than ever, but without political independence, its electoral gains may never translate into working-class power.
Notes on Trans Migration
In a deeply personal piece, Nathaniel Dickson reflects on the interconnected violence of borders and antitrans bigotry.