5LL #404: DHS, Mexico, Gaza, Production, Migration
On DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26
Julian Francis Park, The Brooklyn Rail
It’s still anybody’s contest in the fight between socialism or barbarism.
From Mexico 1986 to North America 2026
Hugo Garciamarín, n+1
For a few weeks, Mexico, not the United States, was the center of the world.
Without Causes
Raymond Geuss, New Left Review
The attempt to cast Gaza as a causeless, isolated humanitarian ‘crisis’ is more obsolete than ever.
The Black Box of Production
Nick Chavez, Heatwave
The material world, made and re-made in the image of capital, looms large over humanity’s future.
Notes on Trans Migration
Nathaniel Dickson, Spectre
I do not think that migration is surrender; it is predicated on the possibility of a habitable future, somewhere.