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A Two-Tier System of Protest Policing
Data reveals disparate treatment of peaceful climate activists versus violent far-right agitators.
PI Briefing | No. 46 | A Tale of Two Internationals
As Trump seizes tankers, backs coups, and pardons traffickers, a Reactionary International asserts its dominance across the world. Five years on, the Progressive International rises to confront it — and to build an order grounded in liberation, not plunder.
Beware of Aadhaar
A Warning on India’s Biometric Identity Model
China's "Silk Road Ark" Hospital Ship Docks in Nicaragua
Chinese hospital ship, Silk Road Ark, has provided free medical care to over a thousand Nicaraguans.
PI Briefing | No. 45 | Prisoners
Israel’s prison system has become a site of mass killing and enforced disappearance — and now, hunger-striking women in Britain are risking their lives to confront the same logic that destroys Palestinian lives.
Labor
In Belgium, Labor and the Government Face a Showdown
Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare state and workers' rights since the post-war era.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 43 | No Peace for the Plundered
Donald Trump insists he is a peacemaker. Who is his “peace” really for?
Speeches
"The defence of international law must be realised through coordinated and courageous action."
Deputy Minister Alvin Botes calls for unified global action to defend international law against hypocrisy and impunity.
Statements
European political leaders warn US “No War on Venezuela”
Jeremy Corbyn, Manon Aubry, Yanis Varoufakis, Irene Montero among dozens urging Europe to oppose U.S. military buildup.
Imperialism
"Cuba, Nicaragua, Grenada Together We Shall Win"
Maurice Bishop’s 1980 Havana speech stands as a defiant manifesto of Caribbean unity and anti-imperialist resistance.
Statements
“A calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International on the UN Security Council resolution on Gaza.
Palestine
How the world enriches from the blood of the Palestinians
UN report details how major corporations are enabling and profiting from the Israeli occupation and violence against Palestinians.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 42 | Tipping Points
As COP30 convenes in Brazil, the world’s crises deepen to breaking point.
Colonialism
Ecuador’s referendum: the latest front in Washington’s war on Latin America
A referendum in Ecuador, backed by the US, threatens to dismantle the nation's progressive 2008 constitution, paving the way for US military bases and a neoliberal rollback of sovereignty.
Indigenous rights
El-Fasher's Fall: A New Chapter in Darfur's Ethnic Cleansing
The UAE-backed RSF's capture of Darfur's historic capital, El-Fasher, marks a catastrophic escalation, cementing a two-decade campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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