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Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One
A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.
The Chuquicamata Union Calls for a Protest Against the Privatization of Codelco and Calls the Statements by the President of the Republican Party “Unpatriotic”
Codelco workers rally on Miners’ Day to defend full state ownership against privatization
Malaysia Detains Cargo Container Suspected of Shipment to Israel
Malaysia detained a suspected Israel-bound container at Tanjung Pelepas under its export ban, acting on intelligence later linked by activists to Elbit Systems and The Hague Group obligations.
PI Briefing | No. 23 | The Earth Beneath Us
The fires are here. So are the technologies of transition. What is missing is power over investment.
Congreso de los Pueblos: “Against Fascism and Imperialism: Mobilization and People's Power”
Congreso de los Pueblos rejects capitalism, fascism, and the De la Espriella government, advocating instead for common goods, participatory democracy, "Buen Vivir," and popular reforms to build People's Power and defend life.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 21 | A Predatory State
Zionist colonialism has relied on sexual violence against Palestinians from its very beginnings.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 20 | Cracks in the Alliance?
NATO’s Summit in Ankara, Turkey, arrived against the backdrop of escalating war and mounting resistance.
Education
How Israel’s financial strangulation of the West Bank is killing Palestinian public education
Israel is stoking a financial crisis in the West Bank by withholding funds from the Palestinian Authority affecting sectors like education, where teachers' salaries have been cut and classes have been shuttered.
Statements
Eyes on Ankara
As NATO meets in Ankara, the Progressive International Cabinet stands in solidarity with progressive forces in Türkiye confronting Erdoğan's government.
Politics
Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary
UK left-wing outlet The Canary can’t pay staff after Lloyds Bank froze its accounts without explanation.
Human Rights
Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago
The arrest of activist Alyssa Phillip during Trinidad's Labour Day celebrations exposes the government's alignment with U.S. security interests
Labor
Bodies for Export: Blood Cherries
Behind Chile's glossy agro-export success lies a system of structural precariousness that exploits thousands of migrant women.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 19 | Albania Is Not For Sale
Albanians are rising against the Trumps’ luxury land grab — and insisting their country is not for sale.
Environment
Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines
Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production.
Politics
Revealed: How Britain Weaponised Terrorism Laws Against Activists
Four Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for criminal damage under a UK law that lets judges add a “terrorism connection” based solely on property damage.
Regions
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