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Columbia University postgraduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil dictated this letter from his cell in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana, on March 18.

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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.

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

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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine. This is the first part of his account.

workers using vacuums to suck oil out of waterways in Ecuador

Communities in Esmeraldas province in northern Ecuador have denounced the government’s failure to act following one of the country’s biggest oil spills in recent history, reports Ben Radford.

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The wave of student-led anti-government protests continues to grow in Serbia, sparked by an awning collapse at the Novi Sad train station that killed 15 people, reports Sofija Filipovic.

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Student protesters at India’s Jadavpur University, in West Bengal, were subjected to violent attacks while demanding that student elections be reinstated by the state government, reports Sandip Nayak.

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Thousands of Kerala’s 26,225 ASHA healthcare workers have been demonstrating for the past month seeking better pay and benefits, reports Karthik Preyeswary.

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Wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ state of the nation speech at Christchurch Town Hall on March 23, reports Saige England.

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Russian anti-war socialist and political prisoner, Boris Kagarlitsky, sent the following article from the penal colony in Torzhok, Russia, where he is serving a five-year sentence for “justification of terrorism”. It has been translated by Dmitry Pozhidaev.

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Women in Peru face high levels of gender-based violence and structural barriers to accessing abortion and contraception, reports Ben Radford.

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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.