As mainstream politicians compete to outdo one another with racist, anti-immigrant slogans and policies, it is more urgent than ever that the left confronts reactionary border politics with solidarity: with migrants, refugees, and workers the world over.

For a limited time and in support of that effort, we’re offering five crucial books analyzing borders and border politics—and advancing visions and strategies for achieving a world free of them—for just $50.

In Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, Silky Shah draws on over twenty years of activism on local and national levels to offer an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.

In Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right, as Jia Tolentino puts it, “Brendan O'Connor draws a dizzying map of the institutions, ideas, and people connecting American capitalism to white supremacist fascism—and illuminates the way immigration sits at the dead center of this machinery.”

In Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, Harsha Walia—one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers—delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. 

In The Case for Open Borders, John Washington offers a beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.

In The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border, Justin Akers Chacón “lays bare the violent extortion and extraction of working-class migrant labor by untangling the hydra of the ‘North American Model’ of capitalist accumulation,” as Leslie Quintanilla puts it.