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PI Briefing | No. 7 | Oil Rains Over Tehran
As Washington and Tel Aviv widen their assault from Gaza to Tehran, Beirut and beyond, forty states gathered in The Hague to test a different proposition: that international law can still be enforced.
Reflections on seven years of organizing with the Mathare Social Justice Centre
A personal reflection tracing the Mathare Social Justice Centre's evolution from single-issue campaigns to an integrated movement rooted in political education, cooperative economics, and community power.
"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics."
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, PI Council Member Yara Hawari reflects on how the ongoing genocide in Gaza serves as a testing ground for weapons, surveillance, and repression that will be exported to the world.
Trump Administration Mandates Venezuelan Oil Royalties, Taxes Be Paid to US-Run Accounts
Washington has imposed control over Venezuelan crude exports, with proceeds deposited in US Treasury-run accounts before being partially returned to Caracas.
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.
Labor
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.
Politics
“Inhumane actions”: China fires back at Trump's sanctions and closes ranks with Cuba
China publicly reaffirmed its political and economic support for Cuba, condemning renewed U.S. sanctions and the longstanding blockade.
Entrevistas
New York City Nurses Have Launched Their Biggest-Ever Strike
15,000 New York City nurses are on strike to demand safe-staffing ratios, protections from workplace violence, and to stop cuts to their health benefits.
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.
Regions
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