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“Medics for the People” Turns Health Care Into Organizing

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care as a basis for organising working-class communities.

Donald Trump Helped Colombia’s Far Right Win

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella eked out a marginal victory over his left-wing opponent Iván Cepeda in Colombia’s presidential race after crude election interference by the US government.

Nepal’s rising ranks of women farmers

As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up

PI Briefing | No. 24 | Star of Freedom in the East

On its 80th Independence Day, India’s young are reopening the unfinished struggle over what freedom is for.

This August we honour the women of South Africa

Abahlali baseMjondolo honors South Africa's women activists, demanding concrete action against the violence, poverty, and state neglect that impoverished women endure daily.

Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One

A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.

7 MIN READ

The Chuquicamata Union Calls for a Protest Against the Privatization of Codelco and Calls the Statements by the President of the Republican Party “Unpatriotic”

Codelco workers rally on Miners’ Day to defend full state ownership against privatization

2 MIN READ

Malaysia Detains Cargo Container Suspected of Shipment to Israel

Malaysia detained a suspected Israel-bound container at Tanjung Pelepas under its export ban, acting on intelligence later linked by activists to Elbit Systems and The Hague Group obligations.

4 MIN READ

PI Briefing | No. 23 | The Earth Beneath Us

7 MIN READ

Congreso de los Pueblos: “Against Fascism and Imperialism: Mobilization and People's Power”

2 MIN READ

The Genocide of South Lebanon

Israel is systematically destroying southern Lebanon through mass killings, displacement, and infrastructure devastation—following the same genocidal pattern it has inflicted on Gaza.

5 MIN READ

Food Sovereignty

Under the mango tree: Youth solidarity and the seeds of peasant agroecology in Kenya

A youth-led peer-to-peer agroecology exchange programme challenges capitalist labour relations and patriarchal norms by mobilising young people.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 22 | Red Scare

Washington is reviving an old doctrine to defeat the forces of liberation — within its borders and beyond them.

Democracy

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

A youth protest movement, born from an insult by India's Chief Justice and ignited by exam corruption, erupts into a massive, defiant march on Parliament in July 2026

Politics

In France, Lawfare Is Used to Silence Pro-Palestine Lawmaker

MEP Rima Hassan is embroiled in trial for defending Palestinians’ right to resist occupation.

Imperialism

1927–2027: Why Do We Celebrate A Century Of Struggle Against Imperialism?

The centenary of the 1927 League Against Imperialism offer a critical opportunity to rebuild a united, working-class internationalist movement.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 21 | A Predatory State

Zionist colonialism has relied on sexual violence against Palestinians from its very beginnings.

Briefing

PI Briefing | No. 20 | Cracks in the Alliance?

NATO’s Summit in Ankara, Turkey, arrived against the backdrop of escalating war and mounting resistance.

Education

How Israel’s financial strangulation of the West Bank is killing Palestinian public education

Israel is stoking a financial crisis in the West Bank by withholding funds from the Palestinian Authority affecting sectors like education, where teachers' salaries have been cut and classes have been shuttered.

Statements

Eyes on Ankara

As NATO meets in Ankara, the Progressive International Cabinet stands in solidarity with progressive forces in Türkiye confronting Erdoğan's government.

Politics

Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary

UK left-wing outlet The Canary can’t pay staff after Lloyds Bank froze its accounts without explanation.

Regions

“Medics for the People” Turns Health Care Into Organizing

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care as a basis for organising working-class communities.

Donald Trump Helped Colombia’s Far Right Win

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella eked out a marginal victory over his left-wing opponent Iván Cepeda in Colombia’s presidential race after crude election interference by the US government.

Nepal’s rising ranks of women farmers

As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up

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.

15 MIN READ

This Land Is Our Land

Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement has emerged from right-wing rule stronger than ever.

27 MIN READ

Four Decades of Cirebon Cement Mining is Eroding Citizens’ Water Rights

In Cirebon, Indonesia, decades of cement mining in Cikeusal Village have led to severe water shortages.

9 MIN READ

Statements

This August we honour the women of South Africa

Abahlali baseMjondolo honors South Africa's women activists, demanding concrete action against the violence, poverty, and state neglect that impoverished women endure daily.

3 MIN READ

Eyes on Ankara

As NATO meets in Ankara, the Progressive International Cabinet stands in solidarity with progressive forces in Türkiye confronting Erdoğan's government.

2 MIN READ

“Colombia has begun to show that another economic path is possible”

Economists, scholars and public policy figures from around the world sign an open letter in support of Colombia’s economic transformation under President Gustavo Petro

4 MIN READ

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