Borders are not natural – they are political constructs designed to serve economic interests. In this video, Arun Kundnani explains that, while capital and goods move freely across borders, labor is heavily restricted, often through violent means. The idea that people must be kept out of certain regions is a relatively recent development, emerging in…
How the Democratic Party lost, how the far Right thrives in the debris of racial capitalism, and why Trump is the War on Terror returning home. This video was first published by Verso Books.
Like many others in the US, I gathered with friends last weekend to try to come to terms with the re-election of Donald Trump as president. None of us were surprised by his victory but, with his winning every swing state, the Senate, and, as seemed likely, the House, we were all depressed at the…
With illustrations by Anuj Shrestha and co-authored with Mizue Aizeki. This is the century of homeland security. The federal government created a monster. They said it would keep us safe. The monster hatched in November 2002. It was named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An appetite for control and conquest was in its DNA.…
Brett St Louis and Arun Kundnani join our host Eleanor Penny to discuss the near foundational figure in the domains of decolonial, marxist, and pan-african thought – C. L. R. James.
Borders uphold a global system of apartheid – and we should demand nothing less than their abolition. In this interview, activist and writer Harsha Walia lays out how borders and citizenship maintain colonial axes of power. From Fortress Europe outsourcing border control far into the African continent in exchange for aid, to Canada securing the…
Governments around the world have used the pandemic as an excuse to expand their powers. Populations have been divided on the basis of race and class into those deserving of protection and those perceived as risky and to be controlled. Migrants, refugees, precarious workers, and racialized groups have faced vulnerability and repression. Many Western liberals,…
How did we end up in a place where security is understood in the narrow terms of policing? Why does this kind of security fail to make a large part of the population feel safer? And can we imagine a society where my security is not the opposite of your security? In this thought-provoking video,…
In this report, it is argued that a politics of abolitionism offers the best approach to overcoming the failures of US national security policy. Applying an abolitionist approach not only domestically within the US but also to agencies of global security will be an essential part of reconceptualizing the notion of security. An abolitionist framework…
Prevailing scholarship on neoliberalism fails to recognise that it generates its own distinctive forms of racial domination. Influential analysts such as Wolfgang Streeck, David Harvey and Wendy Brown assume or argue that racism exists today because neoliberalism’s defeat of racial legacies is incomplete. This ignores how racism is reconfigured in ways that are specific to…