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.

What’s behind the current state of alarm around avian influenza? Abby Cartus examines the epidemiological science and how action is constrained by the political context—namely, RFK Jr., the Trump administration, and the nation’s worsening anti-science and anti-vaccine attitudes.

In this excerpt from her newest title, Capital’s Grave, upcoming from Verso Books, Jodi Dean introduces her provocative new thesis: capital may not be dead, but it is digging its own grave.

As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance “Twitterstorian”? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during Biden?

Ryan Moore weighs the convulsions of our present neoliberalism against the rise of Thatcherism, by way of reference to Stuart Hall and his co-authors’ classic text on Thatcherite ideology and hegemony, Policing the Crisis.

Urban researcher Andy Carr examines the encroaching corporate privatization of municipal governance. By the use of mechanisms like the Business Improvement District, private interests have anointed themselves with the powers of the state.

Paweł Wargan writes about the participation of Polish soldiers in the Haitian Revolution as one of the primary historical sites of left internationalism—an internationalism that is sorely needed today in Gaza and elsewhere.

Sarah Brouillette and Astrid Lorange examine the valences of reactionary “traditional marriage” content. The figure of the “tradwife” is an ideological product, distilled from weaponized fears of white demographic decline.

In the wake of Israel’s killing of American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, writer and activist Laura Kraftowitz remembers her time working alongside Rachel Corrie in Rafah in 2003, and reflects on the grief that followed Corrie’s murder by an Israeli bulldozer driver.

The following is the text of a short lecture by Dylan Saba on the Palestinian struggle, the difference between a structure and an event, and the destruction of the old world as a bridge to the new.