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‘Trump says we don’t have to let you in’, asylum seekers told at US border

Three times in recent months, a Honduran woman named Alma went to US officials at the border between Reynosa, Mexico and Hidalgo, Texas, to ask for asylum for herself and her three children. She had fled Honduras because her other child had been killed by gang members, and she brought documentation to prove it.

But three times she was told by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that she would have to wait in Mexico. In February, the family was kidnapped.

'God have mercy on your souls': Republicans pass cruel Trumpcare Bill

After weeks of arm-twisting reluctant members and backroom negotiations, House Republicans voted Thursday to pass the much-maligned, "astonishingly evil" American Healthcare Act (AHCA), known as Trumpcare.

Israeli responses to the Hebron massacre

VIVIENNE PORZSOLT of Green Left Weekly spoke to Amos Wollin, an Israeli political commentator, on the Israeli response to the massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque. "In large numbers, Israelis have said they understand the murderer", Wollin reported.

Violence mars negotiations with Mexican rebels

By Pip Hinman Private armies of wealthy landowners in Chiapas state are attempting to block a settlement between the Mexican government and peasant rebels. Round one of negotiations between the government and the Zapatista National Liberation

Looking out: Making history

Making history By Brandon Astor Jones For the edification of Australian readers, I should note here that each year the month of February is designated for recognising the accomplishments and contributions that African-Americans have made in

Drama via dance

Four generations A dance event directed by Norman Hall Performance Space, Surry Hills Wednesday-Sunday until March 27 Reviewed by Gary Boyle Four Generations is a poetic dance event which lives up to the designer's claim of uniqueness.

Greens' results

Greens' results PERTH — The Greens (WA) polled 8.36% in the March 12 Fremantle by-election, a gain of 1.6% compared to the last federal election. In some booths the vote for the Greens was as high as 17%. Labor candidate Carmen Lawrence

Time to end the profits blow-out

Time to end the profits blow-out "Companies don't invest in new projects for the public interest or the national good, they do it if they think the project will make a quid", notes Australian industrial correspondent Peter Wilson, in response to

Action updates

ADELAIDE — Activists have begun a campaign to re-establish the Rape Crisis Centre as an autonomous service. (The state Labor government closed the centre last year.) Initially Rape Action Link Up will provide a phone service aimed at offering

The World Bank: 50 Years is Enough!

By Pip Hinman Established 50 years ago, the World Bank is now one of the most powerful institutions in the world. It has established a worldwide bureaucracy which is forcing a social and ecological disaster on the poor and heavily indebted

ANC backs votes for prisoners

By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Support continues to grow for the right of prisoners to vote in South Africa's first democratic elections. The announcement by the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) that prisoners

Final stage in Salvadoran elections

By Stephen Marks SAN SALVADOR — One of the jokes told at the left's closing election rally here referred to the big letter "Z" emblazoned on the T-shirted chests of "Zamora for President" supporters. The story goes that when Calderon Sol, the