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‘Egypt’s guests’ in danger: Refugees face increasing arrests, deportations
Egypt is systematically arresting and deporting thousands of refugees, regardless of their legal status, in a widening crackdown that has created a climate of terror and left many afraid to leave their homes.
Iran, Third World People and U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine Perspectives, 1979
A 1979 editorial from Palestine Perspectives argues that the Iranian Revolution was a direct response to decades of U.S. imperialism, specifically the CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 that overthrew a democracy to install the brutal, Western-backed dictatorship of the Shah.
“We can prevail. We shall prevail.”
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Omar Barghouti, Co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, explained why Palestine serves as both the testing ground for a new era of imperial impunity and the essential starting point for global liberation movements.
“There is always more we can do.”
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, author Sally Rooney reflects on the power of grassroots solidarity, from a Dublin supermarket strike against apartheid to the moral imperative of joining the BDS movement today.
Defend Cuba From US Efforts to Crush It
The U.S. government under Trump and Rubio is intensifying its decades-long economic blockade of Cuba to deliberately create conditions of starvation and collapse.
Briefing
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.
Statements
“Cuban blood stains Marco Rubio's hands.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
Politics
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.
Politics
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.
Politics
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.
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.
Regions
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