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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.
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.
A round of elections that signal structural dominance
In India the Assembly election results strengthen the argument for the BJP’s structural political dominance
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.
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.
Venezuela
“The aim is to give us access to all the resources, needs, and potential that exist in the community.”
Leidi Solarte, head of the Palmarito Socialist Afro-descendant Commune, explains how Venezuela’s communal system replaced single-leader civil associations with grassroots assemblies, street-level organizers, and direct engagement with national government.
Venezuela
“Chávez is the first love of this nation.”
Interview with Anacaona Marin, spokesperson for El Panal Commune and member of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force, conducted in the commune in Caracas on 7 March 2026.
Statements
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
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 10 | Who Decides
Elections, communes, and coups: the fight for popular democracy in Latin America intensifies.
Housing and Land Rights
What it’s like to be a family caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s ‘de-Palestinization’ of Jerusalem
A Palestinian family’s dream home is demolished by Israeli forces as part of settlement expansion and the forced displacement of communities near Jerusalem.
Venezuela
Defending Peace, Building Socialism
Report from the Progressive International Peace Brigade to Venezuela.
War & Peace
Declassified Documents Detail Israel’s Role at the Start of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Recently declassified Israeli archives reveal that in the 1980s, Israel secretly supplied Sri Lanka with millions in weapons, military training disguised as agricultural advice, and even campaign support, despite documented human rights abuses and doubts about a military solution to the civil war.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 9 | Choke Point
The battle over the Strait of Hormuz has revealed a new balance of forces in West Asia — and the desperation of those seeking to reverse it.
Statements
“Lebanon is not alone.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
Labor
Namibia’s Workers Spearheaded Its Fight for Independence
Namibia's labor movements, historically central to anti-colonial resistance through mass strikes and worker solidarity, have operated with reduced influence and mobilization since the country gained independence in 1990.
Regions
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