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The South African state aims to criminalise poverty and grassroots organising
South Africa’s ruling coalition is advancing draconian anti-occupation laws to criminalize the poor and their grassroots movements.
PI Briefing | No. 15 | Red Alert for Cuba
From the US military build-up around Cuba to Hondurasgate’s leaked recordings, Washington’s machinery of domination is in full view.
“The lowest depth of hell”
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Qaoud, a former detainee at the notorious Zionist concentration camp at Sde Teiman, testifies to the treatment of Palestinian political prisoners.
“The Palestinian national cause sharpened our resolve.”
Kamil Abu Hanish, a released Palestinian political prisoner and writer who spent 23 years in Zionist jails, speaks about the new death penalty against Palestinians.
"Trump is manufacturing consent for the invasion of Cuba."
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
Apartheid
The Prosecutor's Office is investigating a complaint filed against CAF regarding its ties to the Israeli apartheid regime
Spanish prosecutors will review a criminal complaint against Basque train maker CAF for building tram lines that connect illegal Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 12 | Hands that hold the world
This May Day, from Havana to Hyderabad, Brasília to Buenos Aires, workers are fighting for land, time, dignity and sovereignty.
Halpin: Note on Techno-Imperialism
Harry Halpin warns that Palantir is a symptom of a larger and insidious form of technological control.
War & Peace
Developing For The Next War: New Zealand’s Five Eyes Satellite Research
Through its Tui and Korimako satellite payloads, New Zealand is quietly helping the US National Reconnaissance Office and the Five Eyes alliance shift toward a “federated” space surveillance system.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 11 | Medicine for Minerals
From HIV treatment in Zambia to deportations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a new US strategy seeks privileged access to critical minerals in Africa.
Venezuela
“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.
Venezuela
“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.
Statements
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
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 10 | Who Decides
Elections, communes, and coups: the fight for popular democracy in Latin America intensifies.
Housing and Land Rights
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.
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