Refugees & migrants

Fuck ICE

Mass protests have broken out in response to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol mass arrests of migrants. 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.

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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.

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.