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One thousand parcels in an hour
In Philippines women parcel sorters face precarious, unregulated working conditions in e-commerce hubs.
PI Briefing | No. 27 | Breaking the Sequence
The war on Iran continues — despite Washington’s best efforts to hide its wanton violence from public view.
After Blocking Fuel, the US Turns to Cuba’s Food Supply
The U.S. is tightening sanctions on Cuba's food import and port infrastructure, using hunger as leverage to force regime change while maintaining its own monopoly over Cuban agricultural trade.
Declaration of the Rights of Caribbean Peoples to Self-Determination and Self-Government, West Indies National Emergency Committee, 1940.
In 1940, Caribbean activists protested U.S. plans to oversee European colonies in the Americas, demanding self-determination and independence rather than a transfer from European to U.S. control.
PI Briefing | No. 26 | Fortress Europe
From Mauritania to Libya, Europe is externalizing its border: funding detention, surveillance and armed violence against people on the move — giving even greater ground to the extreme right back at home.
Labor
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
Briefing
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.
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.
Food Sovereignty
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.
Labor
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
War & Peace
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.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 23 | The Earth Beneath Us
The fires are here. So are the technologies of transition. What is missing is power over investment.
Labor
Congreso de los Pueblos: “Against Fascism and Imperialism: Mobilization and People's Power”
Congreso de los Pueblos rejects capitalism, fascism, and the De la Espriella government, advocating instead for common goods, participatory democracy, "Buen Vivir," and popular reforms to build People's Power and defend life.
War & Peace
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.
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.
Regions
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