Fall 2025 Issue: What is Left?
Essays
Sudan’s Elimination
The ongoing civil war between the SAF and the RSF across Sudan seems to have a simple, surface-level narrative: the two military leaders are both vying for control over the state of Sudan. In actuality, the current conflict is ultimately an extension and intensification of an ongoing Sudanese state-building project, one that is both rooted in economic, political, and cultural marginalization of peripheral states, as well as by dominance and coercion from foreign actors.
Reproductive Rights and the Maternal Burden Upon Female French Immigrants in the “Paris” of the Present
With SA and forced sex affecting a vast majority of female immigrants who’ve landed in France, and the rarity of medical resources, it is important to consider the ramifications of so many layers of oppression upon the immigrant mother; as well as modern solutions taken by organizations such as La Maison des Femmes in providing solace and potential to a predominant urban population.
Palestine Solidarity and the Labor Movement
Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, the Palestine solidarity movement has entered a new phase of energy and action. Despite the great battles of the student movement in this field, there is another theater we should look to: the struggle within the labor movement. This article explores the history of the relationship between Zionism and the establishment labor movement, and how Palestine solidarity can make its return to the U.S. labor movement.
Art
Rita and Jeanie Go West
Oil on Canvas
Francie Surdyke
