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The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
Erik Prince's Vectus Global has embedded itself in the DRC's mining heartland and serves U.S. imperial and corporate interests in critical minerals and violates the Congolese peoples' sovereignty.
“Block Everything Again”: How Genoa’s Dockworkers Helped Build Italy’s General Strike On October 30 and What Comes Next
Last Friday, Genoa’s dockworkers shut down the port, while teachers, students, and workers across the city joined them. Now, they’re taking the fight to Rome.
PI Briefing | No. 34 | Jamming the War Machine
On 30 October, dockworkers at 113 ports in 22 countries and regions are taking action against militarisation and war.
“Instruments of Death”: How Gioia Tauro Dockworkers Fight Arms Shipments at a Port Designed for Isolation
Tipped off by the Palestine solidarity movement, Calabrian union workers helped to stall 17 containers bound for Israel. On October 30, they join a global port strike.
The present that restores: Youth leading the resistance to migration in Honduras
Youth and women around Lake Yojoa in western Honduras are using agroecology, participatory research, and community microenterprises to build dignified rural livelihoods.
Imperialism
Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
British MPs who criticised Palantir in Parliament received "intimidating" letters from the US spytech firm.
Imperialism
The United Arab Emirates Is Devastating Sudan for Profit
The UAE is the most consequential external actor in Sudan’s civil war—arming and financing the RSF through a subimperial project driven by economic, political, and counterrevolutionary motives.
Imperialism
Trump Kidnapped Venezuela’s President. Now Britain Looks To Profit
After the US-backed kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, BP and Shell have moved swiftly to secure lucrative oil and gas deals in Venezuela.
Briefing
Briefing | No. 32 | When the Bargain Breaks
From South Asia to Southern Europe, social grievances have brought growing masses into the streets. But can popular revolt become political power?
War & Peace
No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men
In Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody rights amid genocide.
Housing and Land Rights
Spain's renters rise up against institutional neglect
The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain, exposing a housing crisis fueled by speculation and government neglect.
Housing and Land Rights
Homelessness In Australia's Northern Territory
The closure of Austaralia's YiSSA accommodation facility in Darwin threatens to push hundreds of vulnerable residents into overcrowded housing or rough sleeping while the government expands its carceral infrastructure instead.
Briefing
Briefing | No. 31 | Stopping the Gears of War
On 30 October, dockworkers across the Mediterranean are going on strike to stop the imperialist war machine. We are launching a strike fund to support them.
Imperialism
Social movements prepare for the first protests against De La Espriella
Colombian trade unions, Indigenous organizations, students, and social movements are mobilizing against the new government of Abelardo de la Espriella in October and November over security, peace, economic, and social policy concerns.
Democracy
The World Can't Afford to Lose Brazil
The world can't afford to lose Brazil, because the country has the rare combination of conditions needed to help build a democratic response to global digital transformation
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