Socialism 2026

Our violent border regimes produce illness, debility, and death while destroying the relationships that people rely on to survive. Families are separated, communities destabilized, and care networks fractured through the constant threat of detention. Silky Shah and A. Naomi Paik discuss border policing as a counterinsurgent attack on health, and how to defend and rebuild collective care in an era of escalating state repression and criminalization, from Prarieland, to the Minnesota 15, to the US State Department’s call for a new Red Scare.