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Limbo in the south: Despite ceasefire, Lebanon’s displaced still await political pathway

Despite a ceasefire, displaced Lebanese families returning home find only shattered homes and a persistent sense of limbo, as ongoing Israeli strikes, occupation, and political uncertainty trap them between the desperate need for normalcy and the very real threat of renewed war.

“The will of the peoples remains alive”

Rola Abu Dahou, a released Palestinian political prisoner and professor at Birzeit University, reflects on the history of settler-colonial violence and the responsibility of the academic community in Palestine.

Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations

Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet Union, anti-colonial leaders, and leftist movements during the Cold War.

Muizzu’s Maldives cooks up a sovereignty dispute over the Chagos Islands

Under Mohamed Muizzu, the Maldives is contesting Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos archipelago, inserting itself into a geopolitical dispute also involving the United Kingdom and the United States.

Donald Trump Is on a Mining Offensive in DR Congo

The Trump administration is orchestrating a renewed US resource offensive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the expense of local populations and democratic accountability.

The South African state aims to criminalise poverty and grassroots organising

South Africa’s ruling coalition is advancing draconian anti-occupation laws to criminalize the poor and their grassroots movements.

6 MIN READ

PI Briefing | No. 15 | Red Alert for Cuba

From the US military build-up around Cuba to Hondurasgate’s leaked recordings, Washington’s machinery of domination is in full view.

10 MIN READ

“The lowest depth of hell”

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Qaoud, a former detainee at the notorious Zionist concentration camp at Sde Teiman, testifies to the treatment of Palestinian political prisoners.

8 MIN READ

“The Palestinian national cause sharpened our resolve.”

8 MIN READ

"Trump is manufacturing consent for the invasion of Cuba."

1 MIN READ

Bolivia Six Months Into Rodrigo Paz’s Administration

Six months into Rodrigo Paz's administration, Bolivia is in permanent crisis as a neoliberal playbook of privatization, state repression, and stigmatization of Indigenous and popular movements has shattered institutional stability and triggered mass mobilizations demanding the president's resignation.

6 MIN READ

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 14 | France’s New African Front

In Nairobi, France came seeking a future in Africa. The Pan-African left came to contest it.

Democracy

A round of elections that signal structural dominance

In India the Assembly election results strengthen the argument for the BJP’s structural political dominance

Ecology

The Conference That Named the Problem: Santa Marta and the Beginning of the End of Fossil Fuels

The Santa Marta conference marks the first major multilateral effort outside the UN COP process to build a Global South-led roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels amid mounting climate breakdown and persistent obstruction by fossil fuel interests.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 13 | The South Does Not Wait

In Bogotá and Lahore, ministers, economists, organisers and movements gathered to build the programme — and the power — of a sovereign South.

Food Sovereignty

Yaoundé Declaration: The WTO And Free Trade Cause Hunger, Poverty And Inequality

A new trade framework based on food sovereignty is urgent and necessary!

Apartheid

The Prosecutor's Office is investigating a complaint filed against CAF regarding its ties to the Israeli apartheid regime

Spanish prosecutors will review a criminal complaint against Basque train maker CAF for building tram lines that connect illegal Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 12 | Hands that hold the world

This May Day, from Havana to Hyderabad, Brasília to Buenos Aires, workers are fighting for land, time, dignity and sovereignty.

Halpin: Note on Techno-Imperialism

Harry Halpin warns that Palantir is a symptom of a larger and insidious form of technological control.

War & Peace

Developing For The Next War: New Zealand’s Five Eyes Satellite Research

Through its Tui and Korimako satellite payloads, New Zealand is quietly helping the US National Reconnaissance Office and the Five Eyes alliance shift toward a “federated” space surveillance system.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 11 | Medicine for Minerals

From HIV treatment in Zambia to deportations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a new US strategy seeks privileged access to critical minerals in Africa.

Regions

Limbo in the south: Despite ceasefire, Lebanon’s displaced still await political pathway

Despite a ceasefire, displaced Lebanese families returning home find only shattered homes and a persistent sense of limbo, as ongoing Israeli strikes, occupation, and political uncertainty trap them between the desperate need for normalcy and the very real threat of renewed war.

“The will of the peoples remains alive”

Rola Abu Dahou, a released Palestinian political prisoner and professor at Birzeit University, reflects on the history of settler-colonial violence and the responsibility of the academic community in Palestine.

Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations

Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet Union, anti-colonial leaders, and leftist movements during the Cold War.

Long reads

Death and Resistance: A Dispatch from HMP Low Newton

An incarcerated activist draws a powerful parallel between the slow violence and denial of autonomy within UK prisons and Israel's tactics in Gaza.

15 MIN READ

This Land Is Our Land

Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement has emerged from right-wing rule stronger than ever.

27 MIN READ

Four Decades of Cirebon Cement Mining is Eroding Citizens’ Water Rights

In Cirebon, Indonesia, decades of cement mining in Cikeusal Village have led to severe water shortages.

9 MIN READ

Statements

"Trump is manufacturing consent for the invasion of Cuba."

Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International

1 MIN READ

International Declaration in Defense of the Integrity of the Electoral Process in Peru

Urgent Statement by Presidents, Ministers, and Members of Parliament Regarding the Threat to Peruvian Democracy

3 MIN READ

“Lebanon is not alone.”

Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International

1 MIN READ

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