Jacobin #59
205 x 275 mm, 152 pages
New York, US
Quarterly
Editorial director: Bhaskar Sunkara
Design director: Lauren Traugott-Campbell
With the strap line ‘Reason In Revolt’, Jacobin tackles politics from a firmly leftist standpoint, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Recent issues of Jacobin have seen the New York-crafted magazine expand; in terms of its physical size, pagination and (by the looks of things) its team, which has also seen a reshuffle.
The main feature ‘Deportation As Class Strategy’ investigates the crackdown on mass deportation in America, the sinister racial terror of ICE and how immigration is being used as a manipulative scapegoating tool in order to maintain Republican majority. The article deep dives into how this populist procedure could influence the landscape of the workforce amongst working and middle-class American employees, both from Trump’s skewed POV and the most likely reality of it.