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Halpin: Note on Techno-Imperialism
Harry Halpin warns that Palantir is a symptom of a larger and insidious form of technological control.
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.
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.
“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.
“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
“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.
Cuba
I Joined the Nuestra América Aid Convoy to Show Cuba It’s Not Alone
Jeremy Corbyn describes how the intensified US blockade is causing blackouts, hospital shortages, and everyday suffering in Cuba, and why he joined an international aid convoy to break the siege.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 8 | Cuba Is Not Alone
From an aid convoy to an oil tanker, solidarity became a material force — and breached Trump’s criminal blockade of Cuba.
Venezuela
30 Days in Venezuela
Brian Mier's firsthand account of Venezuela amidst US aggression details strong grassroots support for the Bolivarian government.
Migration
‘Egypt’s guests’ in danger: Refugees face increasing arrests, deportations
Egypt is systematically arresting and deporting thousands of refugees, regardless of their legal status, in a widening crackdown that has created a climate of terror and left many afraid to leave their homes.
Colonialism
Iran, Third World People and U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine Perspectives, 1979
A 1979 editorial from Palestine Perspectives argues that the Iranian Revolution was a direct response to decades of U.S. imperialism, specifically the CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 that overthrew a democracy to install the brutal, Western-backed dictatorship of the Shah.
Speeches
“We can prevail. We shall prevail.”
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Omar Barghouti, Co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, explained why Palestine serves as both the testing ground for a new era of imperial impunity and the essential starting point for global liberation movements.
Speeches
“There is always more we can do.”
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, author Sally Rooney reflects on the power of grassroots solidarity, from a Dublin supermarket strike against apartheid to the moral imperative of joining the BDS movement today.
Imperialism
Defend Cuba From US Efforts to Crush It
The U.S. government under Trump and Rubio is intensifying its decades-long economic blockade of Cuba to deliberately create conditions of starvation and collapse.
Regions
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Statements
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