Refugees & migrants

Refugee rights activists demanded permanent visas for all refugees on World Refugee Day. Chloe DS reports. 

Chalk on a footpath says 'ICE kidnaps people here'

Isaac Nellist speaks to Thomas Malone, an LA-based socialist and union organiser about the anti-deportation protests that broke out on June 6, the deployment of police, National Guard and marines to suppress them and how a broader movement against Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign could grow.

Sign reads 'No Kings'

More than 5 million people turned out in more than 2000 cities and towns across the United States to oppose President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, racist policies and his authoritarian offensive, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Thomas Malone, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses Caucus and organiser with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told the Green Left Show about his experiences of the LA protests against Donald Trump's deportations of immigrants. 

Fuck ICE

Mass protests have broken out in response to United States mass arrests of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard report.

Kon Karapanagiotidis, CEO of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, told a refugee rights forum that a sanctuary network, involving churches and unions, is being built. Chris Slee reports.

People sitting around a large table having a meeting

A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.

Students and supporters across the country rallied to oppose the racist, anti-worker and anti-LGBTIQ agenda of the Donald Trump administration in the United States. Chloe DS reports. 

Hundreds of people gathered at Sydney Town Hall to mark 16 years since Mullivaikkal became a graveyard for over 165,000 Tamil civilians — the peak of the Tamil genocide. Kerry Smith reports.

As capitalism’s inherent barbarism is being exposed via the West’s enabling of genocide in Gaza, organisers of the Ecosocialism 2025 conference are confident its program will attract significant interest. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

 

May Day protesters with banner

In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people marched and rallied in more than 1000 cities across the country on International Workers’ Day, reports Malik Miah.

Lionel Bopage writes that Gaetano Greco was a man who worked to change the world, not just interpret it.