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The UAW Volkswagen Contract Is a Win for Unions in the South
After 502 days of bargaining and a strike threat, the United Auto Workers has won its first contract at Volkswagen in Tennessee, USA.
“Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed ‘Operation Epic Fury.’ For the sake of humanity, we must stop them.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
PI Briefing | No. 6 | Rival Architectures
From Trump’s “Board of Peace” to The Hague Group, two rival architectures now contend over Palestine’s future.
“Cuban blood stains Marco Rubio's hands.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
How privatization aggravated the water crisis in São Paulo
The privatization of São Paulo’s water utility has shifted crisis management toward profit-driven measures that worsen inequality and scarcity for the urban poor.
Labor
“Our enemies are intensifying labor exploitation and union-busting."
Bala Ulaş Ersay explains how warehouse workers' on-going strike against a retail giant is part of a global fight for wages, conditions, and the right to organise in the face of union-busting.
Politics
Undermining the Commons: The Regulatory Assault on Community Credit
Sri Lanka's proposed microfinance regulation threatens to dismantle community-controlled credit systems that serve as a vital lifeline for peasants, fishers, and low-income women.
Apartheid
Israel wipes out Ras Ain al-Auja in the West Bank
Armed Israeli settlers, with state support, are forcibly displacing the Palestinian Bedouin village of Ras Ain al-Auja in the West Bank
Statements
PSI Inter-America condemns the US economic blockade of Cuba
PSI Inter-America condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing criminal, violent, and inhumane economic blockade unilaterally imposed on Cuba by the United States.
Housing and Land Rights
The march must carry on
A report on Palghar's fight for livelihood and land
War & Peace
“Lest We Forget”: Notes on the Imperialist Aggression Against Venezuela
Iván González Alvarado, Venezuelan history professor and internationalist activist, offers his on-the-ground perspective of recent events in Venezuela
Speeches
National Liberation: Categorical Imperative for the Peoples of Our Americas
Manuel Maldonado-Denis's 1981 speech frames national liberation as a categorical imperative for the region.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 4 | A Rounding Error
The balance sheet of global apartheid.
Statements
"Cuba stood for the world. Now, the world must rise for Cuba.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
Imperialism
The Donroe Doctrine and the Naked Imperialism of the Venezuela Intervention
The US military attack in Venezuela reflects a transactional and coercive imperial strategy aimed at seizing strategic resources and restructuring hemispheric supply chains under the "Donroe Doctrine."
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