United States

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.

Black Lives Matter plaza

Construction crews swooped in and began digging up Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, reports Malik Miah.

DOE logo and US flag under smashed glass

The mass layoffs by Donald Trump's administration effectively gut the Department of Education, cutting staff by nearly one third, reports Natalia Marques.

sudents camp out at Columbia University

Chants of “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!” echoed through downtown Manhattan, as people protested the kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, reports Saurav Sarkar.

Donald Trump mural

United States President Donald Trump has implemented a whirlwind of attacks and changes that are shifting politics internationally. Green Left's Isaac Nellist spoke to US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan about the devastating impacts of Trump’s second presidency and the challenges in building resistance to it.

Isaac Nellist asks US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan, members of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses caucus, about Trump’s attacks on immigrants, workers and human rights. 

Leonard Peltier released

As former United States President Joe Biden left office, he commuted 80-year-old political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s life sentences to home incarceration, reports Malik Miah. Peltier is a long-time leader of the First Nations movement in the US.

Person looking at US capitol building

In a “slash and burn” rampage, multi-billionaire and Donald Trump appointee Elon Musk is spearheading job cuts and closures across United States government departments, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

fire in Los Angeles 2025

United States President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, sparking global concerns about the future of climate action, reports Rhea Dev.

PM Anthony Albanese’s mealy-mouthed dodging of Trump’s declaration that the US would “own” and “level” Gaza was his way of signalling that Australia will tag along, albeit with a little bit of hand-wringing, argues Sam Wainwright

 

Gaza coastline in 2007

When United States President Donald Trump announced that the US would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, he was signalling to Israel that it has the US’s backing to intensify its genocide and destruction of Gaza, write Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.

Graffiti on a wall in Mexico City

From preparing to send Latinx migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labelling Latin American cartels “terrorist organisations”, United States President Donald Trump is criminalising the region in order to subjugate it, writes Tamara Pearson.