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PI Briefing | No. 5 | We are sailing to Cuba
The Nuestra América Flotilla will break the siege, save lives, and stand with the Cuban people’s right to self-determination.
New York City Nurses Have Launched Their Biggest-Ever Strike
15,000 New York City nurses are on strike to demand safe-staffing ratios, protections from workplace violence, and to stop cuts to their health benefits.
“Our enemies are intensifying labor exploitation and union-busting."
Bala Ulaş Ersay explains how warehouse workers' on-going strike against a retail giant is part of a global fight for wages, conditions, and the right to organise in the face of union-busting.
Undermining the Commons: The Regulatory Assault on Community Credit
Sri Lanka's proposed microfinance regulation threatens to dismantle community-controlled credit systems that serve as a vital lifeline for peasants, fishers, and low-income women.
Israel wipes out Ras Ain al-Auja in the West Bank
Armed Israeli settlers, with state support, are forcibly displacing the Palestinian Bedouin village of Ras Ain al-Auja in the West Bank
Imperialism
The Donroe Doctrine and the Naked Imperialism of the Venezuela Intervention
The US military attack in Venezuela reflects a transactional and coercive imperial strategy aimed at seizing strategic resources and restructuring hemispheric supply chains under the "Donroe Doctrine."
Statements
The San Carlos Declaration
The founding declaration of ‘Nuestra América’
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 3 | In the House of the Liberator
As new colonial schemes are laid in Davos and Washington, movements, ministers, and militants gather in Bogotá to defend sovereignty, solidarity, and the right of peoples to decide their own future.
Colonialism
International Call to Action: Türkiye, Stop Fuelling Genocide!
Activists call for global protests on 27 January to pressure Türkiye to stop oil shipments to Israel, which fuel military operations in Gaza.
Entrevistas
Brazil’s Massive Landless Workers’ Movement Leads the Way
After 40 years of struggle, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, the world’s largest social movement, has rebranded its fight for agrarian reform around organic food production.
Statements
The Caracas Resolution
Popular movements, parties, and progressive organizations from over 20 countries issue a pledge to stand with Venezuela and all peoples and nations struggling against imperial aggression.
Statements
Kurdistan Communities Union: The Spirit of Resistance of Kobanê Must Rise!
Statement from the KCK Executive Council
Politics
How Britain Helped Trump Destabilise Venezuela
The UK government has systematically backed the US-led overthrow of Venezuela's government by recognizing a rival claimant, freezing state assets, and secretly planning for a post-Maduro economy.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 2 | They Want Us Afraid
From Hyderabad to Caracas, struggles for dignity persist under the shadow of imperial intimidation — and demand an internationalism strong enough to defy it.
Environment
Defending the environment, fighting for human rights
Philippine land grabs and militarization violate rights of fisherfolk, indigenous, and peasants.
Regions
Long reads
Statements
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