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PI Briefing | No. 20 | Cracks in the Alliance?
NATO’s Summit in Ankara, Turkey, arrived against the backdrop of escalating war and mounting resistance.
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.
Eyes on Ankara
As NATO meets in Ankara, the Progressive International Cabinet stands in solidarity with progressive forces in Türkiye confronting Erdoğan's government.
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.
Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago
The arrest of activist Alyssa Phillip during Trinidad's Labour Day celebrations exposes the government's alignment with U.S. security interests
Cepeda accuses de la Espriella of financing paramilitary groups
Fresh evidence from paramilitary commanders' own testimonies ties Colombian far-right presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, to financing the AUC through a fake peace NGO
Palestine
Israelis unite behind death penalty for Palestinians
After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV.
Entrevistas
“Our shared histories of resistance compel us to act concretely.”
Nikita Naidu, an Indian climate and regenerative justice activist, details how ten humanitarian volunteers from the Global Sumud Land Convoy have been arbitrarily detained in eastern Libya since 24 May
Statements
“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
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 17 | Ballots, Bulldozers, Bombs
The Reactionary International advances through elections, land grabs and militarisation. Its opponents are learning to meet it on every front.
Migration
The border management fairytale
How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements
Palestine
“The unity of the resistance rifle may be the only lifeboat to end this criminal usurping entity”
Fida Abdel Fattah on how the ongoing Nakba and Gaza genocide expose the futility of international law against a defiant Zionist-US alliance.
Militarism
Dead souls in the sugarlands: Counterinsurgency and the moral life of solidarity in Negros
A firsthand reflection on the Philippine counterinsurgency’s human toll, arguing that such historical violence cannot be fixed by technical reforms alone.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 16 | The Wages of Aggression
From oil futures to fertiliser markets, the US-Israeli war on Iran is rippling through the world economy — and sharpening the choice between scarcity and sovereignty.
Politics
Limbo in the south: Despite ceasefire, Lebanon’s displaced still await political pathway
Despite a ceasefire, displaced Lebanese families returning home find only shattered homes and a persistent sense of limbo, as ongoing Israeli strikes, occupation, and political uncertainty trap them between the desperate need for normalcy and the very real threat of renewed war.
Regions
Long reads
Statements
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