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The Vanguard of Fantasy : A Poster in Homage to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker

We've prepared a poster in homage to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the 1960s.

Bandung’s Ghosts

From Issue V: The original ambitions laid out at the Bandung Conference, which began 70 years ago today, for a "Thirld World" movement were far more radical than the eventual historical incarnation. Pranay Somayajula examines the contradictions of nationalism and statehood that conspired to ensure the internationalist vision’s shortcomings.

Another Detroit City Budget that Misses the Mark

The Detroit City Council recently voted on the annual budget. While there were important changes, the 2025-26 budget ignores the needs of Detroit’s working class.

Vital Mekong fish corridors tracked for first time, but funding cuts threaten future research

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish from a dozen species and implanted them with small electric transmitters before releasing them back into the river.

Trans Women Don’t Count As Women Under Equality Act, UK Supreme Court Rules

Judges in the UK have ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not gender identity. A global grassroots movement for trans rights — one that fights in the workplace and the streets — is needed.

The Pseudo-Populism of Canada’s New Right

Pierre Poilievre talks like a class warrior, but his policies serve the C-suite. A new book digs into the ideology and elite backing behind his faux-populist, anti-government movement.

“A Democracy of Convenience Is No Democracy at All”: A Letter from Mahmoud Khalil on His Ongoing Detention

Below we reprint in full a statement from U. S. political prisoner, Mahmoud Khalil, written from a cell in a detention center in Louisiana.

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024

The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that Colombia lost 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles) of forest in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, when deforestation hit 793 km2 (306 mi2).

Locals, researchers race to save unique biodiversity of PNG’s Torricellis

Torricelli Mountains, a tiny mountain range in northern Papua New Guinea, is estimated to host roughly 4% of the world’s known species, many found nowhere else on Earth, Mongabay’s John Cannon reported in March. “I mean, for 0.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis

Siamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and the southernmost part of Thailand, their unforgettable and emblematic call defines the soundscape of the hill forests in the region.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Brazil designated a refuge twice the size of Manhattan near the Amazonian city of Manaus in June 2024 to protect the pied tamarin, South America’s most endangered monkey. But almost one year later, the 15,000-hectare (37,000-acre) reserve is still being implemented institutionally, and conservationists say it falls short of what the species needs to survive.

With Congress Preparing a ‘Fiscal Tsunami, ’ States Can Choose Differently

GOP lawmakers want to slash taxes on the rich and services for the rest. But several states are showing there’s another path.

New York Groove

Where are you going? Where is your departed? Don’t you care about your father?

Trump opens massive marine protected area to commercial fishing

U. S. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIH), a massive marine protected area home to threatened fish, sea turtles and marine mammals. The proclamation says U. S. -flagged vessels may now fish within 50-200 nautical miles (90-370 kilometers) inside PIH’s boundaries.

Nature on the move: How conservation must adapt to survive

Resilience means getting through something — tough, messy, with losses, but surviving. So said Andrew Whitworth, executive director of Osa Conservation in Costa Rica, summing up a growing shift in conservation thinking. As the planet hurtles toward a future 3-5° Celsius (5.4-9° Fahrenheit) warmer by 2075, holding the line is no longer enough.

How the Constitution’s Framers Got It Wrong

James Madison argued that politicians' ambition would lead them to uphold the separation of powers. Today congressmembers’ ambition seems to lead them to do the exact opposite: submitting to Trump and completely bargaining away their own power.

Warfare Is Hell at the Movies

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is another combat movie that promises to make war look like hell but instead makes it look like a thrilling trial by fire for young men to prove themselves.

India: As Crop Prices Crash and Land Pressure Mounts, Karnataka Farmers Turn to Direct Marketing – ‘Our Crop, Our Price, Our Resistance’

Encouraged by the enthusiastic response from the people of Bengaluru to its initiative of enabling farmers to sell directly to consumers, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha has decided to organize such markets every fortnight.

“Natalcon” and the Contradictions of the Pronatalist Right

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions — and without a plausible plan to significantly increase birth rates.

Oliver Stone Goes to Washington

Jacobin sat down with legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone to talk about his recent testimony before Congress on the JFK assassination, the CIA’s continued stonewalling, and why we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.