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The promise of mass deportations. Pardons for fascist militia leaders. Nazi salutes. Turning Guantánamo Bay torture camp into a migrant prison... On and on it goes, in US President Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign to remould US politics decisively.

Brendan Stanton, now based in Australia, was active in the Student Farmworker Alliance, United We Dream and the broader immigrants’ rights movements in Texas from 2007 to 2019. Here, he outlines what is at stake in Trump's attacks on undocumented migrants.

Red Flag’s Omar Hassan, a longstanding supporter of the Syrian revolution and a Palestine solidarity activist, was in Syria in January to report on the situation after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship. This is the final of his series of reports:

The federal government will spend $8 billion to expand the HMAS Stirling naval base on Garden Island so that it can dock Australia’s first nuclear-powered submarines from the early 2030s.

That predictable and preventable fires have overwhelmed the second largest city in the United States is an indictment of the system that Los Angeles has come to symbolise.

“Our public servants are a national asset”, read one placard from a recent strike by government employees in the Syrian city of Suwayda. “No to the unjust decree, No to the sacking of our workers”, read another.

On 11 January, 15,000 people travelled from across Germany in at least 200 busses and more sold-out trains to protest the conference of the fascist Alternative for Germany, which is polling second in the run-up to national elections next month.

Capitalism’s new era of brutality found no greater expression this week than in the world’s richest man, Elon Musk—a supporter of European fascist organisations—openly and emphatically invoking the most reactionary of political doctrines.

Palestinians have understandably celebrated the announcement of a ceasefire agreement. But the global movement for a free Palestine can’t let up. Even if the ceasefire holds, it will not resolve the terrible problems facing the Palestinian people.

Donald Trump has today assumed the reins of the US government. Arguably though, the returning president’s most significant victory has already been won: his far-right sensibilities have become an accepted part of the political furniture.

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Daraa was one of the birthplaces of the revolution against Assad, when a group of teenagers was arrested and tortured for anti-government graffiti. The backlash to their abuse was the spark that inspired a heroic rebellion that lasted more than a decade.

Suwayda is a taste of what Syria could have been had the Assad family not clung to power with such maniacal tenacity.

From 14 July last year, refugees ran a continuous protest encampment for 100 days outside the Home Affairs Department in Melbourne, demanding permanent visas. Red Flag spoke to Aran Mylvaganam, one of the key organisers of the camp, about how it all went.

Australia’s military alliance with the United States means that Canberra has practically signed up the country for a US war with China if and when it breaks out.

According to UN records Yarmouk, a refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Damascus, was home to around 160,000 people before 2011, overwhelmingly Palestinians. There’s nothing left of that now.

Joe Allen is a Chicago-based socialist, former Teamster and author of 'The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service'. In this piece, Joe evaluates the Teamsters union’s recent strike at Amazon warehouses in the United States.

A full list of Omar's reports from Syria can be found on our website here: