Refugees & migrants

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.

Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.

Palm Sunday protests across the country opposed Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and highlighted how war creates refugees. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report. 

man sitting on the grass

Columbia University postgraduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil dictated this letter from his cell in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana.

statue of liberty crumbling and two framed faces

The attacks on immigrants, international students and permanent residents in the United States are a grim reminder of the long history of deportations and border control as a strategy to punish political radicals, writes Malik Miah.

Ferat Kocak speaking

Green Left’s Mary Merkenich recently spoke with Daniel Kipka-Anton from German left party Die Linke.

prisoner's hands behind wire

More than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador are being held under harsh conditions in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Centre. Meanwhile, the US is threatening further economic sanctions against Venezuela, reports Chris Slee.

Rohingya refugee children

Among the myriad challenges facing Rohingya refugees is the denial of education — a profound injustice with far-reaching consequences, writes Noor Sadeque.

Protesting in Guantanamo Cuba

More than 50,000 Cubans took to the streets in the southern city of Guantánamo to reject United States President Donald Trump’s plan to use the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a detention centre for deported migrants, reports Ben Radford.