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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.

Lina Attalah in custody after court issues LE3 mn fine, orders Mada Masr’s closure

Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was fined LE3 million by the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court, which convicted her on charges of managing an unlicensed website, issuing an order for the website’s closure. Attalah was taken into custody after the issue of the ruling.

Livorno’s Dockworkers Are Learning How to Jam the War Machine

A year of strikes and pickets, and now a blockade by sea with the Global Sumud Flotilla: how an Italian port town is disrupting the war economy one shipment at a time.

Ulm5 — Germany’s show trial sets a dangerous precedent

In a show-trial riddled with procedural irregularities, Germany is seeking to make an example of five activists who organized against the genocide in Gaza.

Briefing | No. 33 | Sovereignty or Submission

On Sunday, Brazilian voters face a choice with ramifications for the survival of our species. As President Lula has phrased it: That choice is “sovereignty or submission.”

On the Ulm5

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Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters

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Trump Kidnapped Venezuela’s President. Now Britain Looks To Profit

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No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men

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

War & Peace

The Dispersal of the People of Jabal Amel

Israel has occupied 568 km² of southern Lebanon since the March 2026 war, emptying it of its predominantly Shia population through systematic domicide and urbicide.

Ecology

Nepal’s Rasuwa flood disaster is an alert to Southasia and the world

The August 26, 2025 collapse of Langtang Lirung's northern flank in Nepal's Rasuwa district triggered catastrophic debris flows down the Bhotekoshi River, killing Nepalis, Chinese, Tibetans, Indians, and other foreign visitors while wiping out a dozen hydropower stations (over 670 MW), highways, bridges, schools, and border trade infrastructure.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 30 | Nobody’s Backyard

Brazil votes on Sunday as its intelligence service alleges foreign interference, cyberattacks rise and economic warfare to defeat the popular forces behind President Lula da Silva.

Politics

Venezuelan Gov’t Signs Wildlife Conservation Deal with Controversial Indian Group

Venezuela signed an MOU with India's Vantara-backed GZRRC to modernize its zoos and wildlife centers, raising concerns given Vantara's controversial record on wildlife trade and its ties to the Ambani-owned Reliance conglomerate.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 29 | From Law to Justice

As Trump attacked the ICC and Netanyahu faced a walkout at the UN, forty states gathered to put an arms embargo, protections for the Court and a new UN mechanism modelled on the Special Committee against Apartheid.

Regions

Long reads

Statements

Istanbul Declaration: "Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars!"

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