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“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.
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline
Transition of officials from the UK Ministry of Defence to spyware firm Palantir raises alarms over national security dependency and eroding accountability.
Cuba Must Not Fall! Imperialism, Resistance and the Global Stakes of Defending the Cuban Revolution
The survival of Cuba's socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty.
Coupang, South Korea’s Amazon, Is Copying Its Worst Habits
The story of Coupang reveals how a publicly traded platform built its empire on a foundation of data breaches, deadly overwork, and the systematic precarity of labor.
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."
Statements
The San Carlos Declaration
The founding declaration of ‘Nuestra América’
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 3 | In the House of the Liberator
As new colonial schemes are laid in Davos and Washington, movements, ministers, and militants gather in Bogotá to defend sovereignty, solidarity, and the right of peoples to decide their own future.
Colonialism
International Call to Action: Türkiye, Stop Fuelling Genocide!
Activists call for global protests on 27 January to pressure Türkiye to stop oil shipments to Israel, which fuel military operations in Gaza.
Regions
Long reads
Statements
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