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“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.
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
PI Briefing | No. 10 | Who Decides
Elections, communes, and coups: the fight for popular democracy in Latin America intensifies.
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.
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.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 7 | Oil Rains Over Tehran
As Washington and Tel Aviv widen their assault from Gaza to Tehran, Beirut and beyond, forty states gathered in The Hague to test a different proposition: that international law can still be enforced.
Social Justice
Reflections on seven years of organizing with the Mathare Social Justice Centre
A personal reflection tracing the Mathare Social Justice Centre's evolution from single-issue campaigns to an integrated movement rooted in political education, cooperative economics, and community power.
Palestine
"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics."
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, PI Council Member Yara Hawari reflects on how the ongoing genocide in Gaza serves as a testing ground for weapons, surveillance, and repression that will be exported to the world.
Regions
Latin America
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Statements
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