PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
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Don’t blame the migrants
RON JACOBS points out the role that incarceration plays in the super-exploitation of the poor, the black and the immigrant
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Border Patrol officer takes a photo of a migrant in between the border walls separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego US in May 2024, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez
PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary
JAMES WALSH wallows in the triumphant reappearance behind the mic of former Morning Star columnist Chris T-T
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Silky Shah
Haymarket Books, £14.99
SILKY SHAH, the author of a new book on how many immigrants to the US are treated by the US government, has worked with the group Detention Watch Network for over 20 years.
Shah’s text is divided into three sections. The first provides a history of the last three decades, give or take a couple years, of US immigration policy.
It is here where Shah details the intersection between mass incarceration of US residents as the policy for controlling surplus populations, the crackdown on immigration, the growth of the prison-industrial complex and neoliberal capitalism.
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