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India's Gig Workers Strike for Dignity and Protection
Nationwide flash strike by 40,000 app-based delivery workers demands an end to exploitative algorithms and calls for a national policy to ensure fair wages, safety, and social security.
Govan Mbeki Was a Brilliant Pioneer of African Marxism
Govan Mbeki was an activist–intellectual whose lifelong commitment to African nationalism and Marxism shaped South Africa’s liberation struggle.
PI Briefing | No. 47 | Venezuela Under Siege
The United States’ war on Venezuela escalates.
Geopolitics, Resistance and the Battle for Venezuela: A Conversation with Atilio Borón
Political theorist Borón provides a comprehensive analysis of Washington’s new military activity in the Caribbean and how to resist it.
Bodies as Barricades
As the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike enters its 48th day, the eight political prisoners in British jails are now at risk of death.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 45 | Prisoners
Israel’s prison system has become a site of mass killing and enforced disappearance — and now, hunger-striking women in Britain are risking their lives to confront the same logic that destroys Palestinian lives.
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.
Politics
Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism
The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.
War & Peace
Forgotten Photos Expose UK Army Abuses In Iraq
Photos and evidence document systemic abuse of Iraqi detainees by British soldiers in 2003, revealing a pattern of hooding, stress positions, and violence.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 44 | How we Make Amazon Pay
For the sixth consecutive year, workers around the world are organizing to Make Amazon Pay.
Labor
It’s been 12 years since Rana Plaza. Why is Amazon still refusing to protect Bangladeshi garment workers?
Nazma Akter condemns Amazon for its continued refusal to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety.
Colonialism
Hindu nationalism’s debt to colonialism
Hindu nationalism's ideology is built on a colonial-era history that falsely framed India's past as a perpetual Hindu-Muslim conflict, a distorted narrative now weaponised to fuel majoritarian politics.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 43 | No Peace for the Plundered
Donald Trump insists he is a peacemaker. Who is his “peace” really for?
Speeches
"The defence of international law must be realised through coordinated and courageous action."
Deputy Minister Alvin Botes calls for unified global action to defend international law against hypocrisy and impunity.
Statements
European political leaders warn US “No War on Venezuela”
Jeremy Corbyn, Manon Aubry, Yanis Varoufakis, Irene Montero among dozens urging Europe to oppose U.S. military buildup.
Regions
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