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Statements

PI to TCE: "We will defend democracy in Ecuador"

The Progressive International expresses grave concern for free & fair elections in Ecuador.
Statements

UNI Global Union: Time to #MakeAmazonPay

COVID-19 has exposed the cruel, deep flaws of our economy, and perhaps no other company in the world than Amazon shows how stratified and unequal we have become.
Statements

Make Amazon Pay

The Progressive International is mobilizing with Amazon workers and their allies around the world. Here’s why.
Statements

Amazon Workers International: We Will Make Amazon Pay!

This Black Friday, Amazon’s warehouse workers are striking against exploitation — and asking you to join them.
Statements

Hawkers across India demand justice from Amazon

The Hawkers Joint Action Committee is taking a stance against Amazon and its destruction of India’s local economies.
Politics

Peru: The Streets Are Rising Up

The ongoing protests and political turmoil in Peru have exposed a deep divide in Peruvian society.
Housing and Land Rights

The Farmers of Punjab vs. Modi’s Farm Bills [In Photos]

Narendra Modi’s BJP is trying to neoliberalize India’s farming sector — the farmers of Punjab are fighting back.
Politics

What’s Next For Chile on the Road to a new Constitution

Chile’s referendum result is a cry for progressive change, but the struggle to translate mass social mobilisation into the drafting of a new constitution remains.
Statements

SPA: Let us stand up against the traitors and their masters, or watch our children fall!

Statement from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) on the deadly Kabul University attack.
Migration

Egyptian Security Forces Crack Down on Peaceful Refugee Protests

Refugees protesting repeated acts of discrimination and violence now also face the increasingly brutal response from Egyptian security forces.
Statements

MeRA25: "On 17 November, We March for Democracy and Freedom"

Fotini Bakadima MP on the fight against Greece's slide into authoritarian rule.
Statements

SYKP: As Buildings Fell in Turkey, So Did Erdoğan’s Illusions

Turkey’s recent wave of earthquakes has exposed the corruption of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule.
Housing and Land Rights

Israel Uses Cover of US Elections to Wipe Entire Palestinian Community Off the Map

Israeli forces demolished the entire Bedouin community of Khirbet Humsah in the northern Jordan Valley, leaving 41 Palestinian children homeless just as winter storms spread through the West Bank.
Economy

California Now Allows Tech Companies To Just Write Their Own Laws

After a $200 million propaganda blitz, California voters passed the Uber- and Lyft-backed ‘Proposition 22’, permanently excluding online “platform” workers from labor protections.
Politics

The US Election Made One Thing Clear: Donald Trump’s Fascism is No Aberration

Trump may have lost the presidency, but his fascist movement lives on. We must defeat it.
Statements

Against War in Nagorno-Karabakh

Leftists in Armenia call for a post-nationalist, pluralist, and sustainable cohabitation for the people of the Caucasus.
Statements

CORE Nigeria: “We will fight for our total liberation”

Baba Aye of the Coalition for Revolution (CORE) calls for a people’s uprising against an illegitimate regime in Nigeria.
Politics

Puerto Rico, The World’s Oldest Colony, Charts a New Course

The time is now for progressives and socialists — in the US and around the world — to recognize Puerto Rico as the nation and the country that it is.
Statements

We Stand with Jeremy Corbyn

"In defence of decency, and for the future of socialism in Britain and around the world."
Statements

Razem: “Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Country, the World”

Women across Poland are rising up against a barbaric assault by Catholic clergy and their friends in government.
Statements

Zimbabwe People's Land Rights Movement (ZPLRM): Land, Food, and Shelter Now

Statement from our latest member, the Zimbabwe People's Land Rights Movement (ZPLRM), on defending land rights in Zimbabwe’s rural resettlement communities.
Politics

Celebrations in Plaza Dignidad: Thousands celebrate the referendum result in Chile

In a landslide victory, the people of Chile have decided to rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution.
War & Peace

How do indigenous peoples in the Pacific experience armed conflict?

Caught in the middle of armed conflict, the indigenous peoples of Colombia demand respect for their territory, people and identity.
Culture

Settler Colonialism Is The Root of Kenya’s Brutal Penal System

The prisons that litter the African landscape are both a legacy of colonial subjugation and a site for egregious human rights abuses. Yet there have been few calls on the continent for their abolition or defunding.
Statements

Sofia Sakorafa: The Struggle for Democracy Never Stops

MeRA25 MP and member of the PI observer delegation Sofia Sakorafa on the meaning of Bolivia’s election.
Economy

Dare to drop the debt

PI Wire and Blueprint coordinators make an urgent call for debtors of the world to unite against the austerity policies of the World Bank and IMF.
Statements

Nigerian Feminist Coalition: #EndSARS & Protect Peaceful Protest

The unified voices of Nigerians have been treated as a threat to democracy instead of an expression of it. We unreservedly condemn the government’s use of violence against peaceful protesters.
Statements

Democracy – and International Solidarity – Triumph in Bolivia

Bolivia’s elections suggest a formula to restore democracy and win popular power.
Statements

SPA: For a Free and Independent Afghanistan

Statement from our latest member, the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA), on the continuing struggle for a free and independent Afghanistan nearly two decades since the start of the War on Terror.
Politics

Greece’s Golden Dawn Has Been Crushed – But Its Agenda Lives On

Even though the court ruling effectively ended Golden Dawn as an organization, the struggle to rid Greece of its deep-rooted ties elsewhere continues.
Statements

Kill the Bill, or It Will Kill Us All

Indonesia’s trade unions and social movements are taking to the streets against anti-worker legislation.
Social Justice

Feeding the Chinese City

Interviews with takeout delivery drivers in China, translated for the first time since the story of their struggle went viral on WeChat.
Social Justice

Amazon’s Men in Black

Not so long ago, Amazon was looking for new recruits with experience in intelligence work whose job description, among other things, included “to track risks arising from trade unions.”
Labor

Oleg Vernik: The Krivoy Rog miners' strike

Statement from Oleg Vernik, Chairman of PI Member Zakhyst Pratsi, on the ongoing miners' strikes in Ukraine.
Health

Dual Crisis: Power outage leaves Gaza without water during pandemic lockdown

Water shortages in Gaza because of Israeli fuel cuts are leaving Palestinians in a double crisis: a COVID-19 lockdown combined with fears over meeting basic needs.
Statements

Roger Waters at the Belmarsh Tribunal: "The fight for Assange is a fight for freedom."

In his opening speech, Roger Waters demanded freedom for Julian Assange — and all those who struggle for a better world in India, Lebanon, Bolivia and beyond.
Statements

Srećko Horvat: The Belmarsh Tribunal

PI Council Member Srećko Horvat on the launch of the Belmarsh Tribunal, which will put the United States government on trial for its crimes of the 21st century and drawing attention to the extradition case of Julian Assange for revealing them.
Statements

Nursing Homes Must Go Union To Build a Shield Against COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on nursing homes. Workers in the sector and those receiving care are paying the price for the rise of a for-profit model.
Statements

PI to CNE: Respect the Sovereignty of the Ecuadorian People

Members of the Council warn of "grave consequences" if the opposition is banned in Ecuador.
Politics

Duterte’s Pardon to Pemberton Is a Mockery of Justice

By granting absolute pardon to US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, who was convicted for the killing of a transwoman in 2014, President Duterte places the interests of the US government above the Filipino people’s demands for justice.
Politics

Ecuador’s reactionary forces have abandoned the pretense of democracy

The campaign of lawfare against the Left opposition in Ecuador is a last-ditch attempt to grip power for the country’s elites.
Social Justice

Teachers inspire revolt against austerity in Jordan

Jordan is erupting following a government crackdown on the teachers’ union.
Statements

“We demand the immediate release of Julian Assange”

PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London.
Statements

Stop the Incarceration and Targeting of Dissenters and Activists in India

Members of the PI Council ring the alarm on arbitrary arrests and the breakdown of justice in India.
Statements

Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction

PI Council Member Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
Politics

The Thailand Uprising: “For the Rightful Owners of the Land”

For the past months, a broad political movement, primarily led by Thai youth, has advanced a series of increasingly provocative protests against the military government.
Social Justice

Beirut: Justice for the Victims, Revenge from the Regime

The Beirut explosion lasted an instant. But it has left a lasting wound in Lebanon, and laid bare the illegitimacy of the regime.
Migration

Britain’s Channel Crossings Policy Comes Straight Out of Fortress Europe’s Playbook

The UK’s threatened pushback of migrants and harassment of people in distress at sea are an attempt at mimicking Fortress Europe’s policies.
Social Justice

How the pandemic has exacerbated caste discrimination in Bangladesh

Dhaka’s street cleaners, many of them Dalits, faced a grim future even before the pandemic. Now, they keep the city clean at the risk of getting infected — as they fight against continued discrimination.
Economy

Africa’s Pandemic Response Calls for Reclaiming Economic and Monetary Sovereignty

More than 600 economists and academics from around the world call for Africa to acquire monetary sovereignty in order to revive its development after Covid-19.
Media

An Interview with John Shipton, father of Assange: "Julian's oppression is the great crime of the 21st century"

Julian Assange remains in HMP Belmarsh maximum security prison in London, UK. Despite being in poor health, his extradition trial to the United States is scheduled for September 7, 2020.
Social Justice

SOS Colombia: massacres in the pandemic

In Colombia, paramilitary groups and their allies from parliamentary politics to the security forces are perpetrating a new genocide.
Politics

"Democracy in Ecuador will triumph or perish in broad daylight"

An interview with the former foreign minister of Ecuador, Guillaume Long.
Environment

International Corporations Want to Mine Armenia’s Gold. But the People Are Fighting Back

PI member Left Resistance, a coalition of grassroots movements from Armenia, calls on progressives to support the fight of the country’s local communities against the exploitation by international corporations.
Housing and Land Rights

For the People of the River, Not Investors: Guaranteeing Farmers' Rights to the Waters of the Nile

Negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have once again collapsed. The massive infrastructure project, under construction in Ethiopia on a tributary that ultimately feeds into the Nile, has become a point of contention between the countries over fears that it will cause water shortages downstream.
Economy

The Roots of Food Crisis in Pakistan

Solidarity must replace profit as the principle that organises Pakistan’s food systems and economy if it is to avoid mass hunger.
Labor

Domestic workers are the frontline of exploitation in Turkey

Domestic workers are suffering increased workloads and worsening working conditions while seeing their wages reduced.
Statements

Declaration of Solidarity with the People of Lebanon

Members of the PI call on all progressive forces to support the struggle for a just society in Lebanon.
Politics

“Bolivia’s Coup President Will End up Fleeing the Palace in a Helicopter”

The COB trade union federation is leading the fight for democracy in Bolivia with a general strike and road blockades around Bolivia, showing the might of the social movement behind it.
War & Peace

Anti-China Hysteria Drives Record 2021 U.S. Defense Spending

Anti-China hysteria has emerged as the central ‘threat’ designed to justify endless U.S. military spending and adventurism in the Asia-Pacific.
Statements

An Urgent Call for Solidarity with the Workers and People of Belarus

Belarusian workers and representatives of the organized left call for solidarity and support in resisting both Lukashenko and the pro-capital opposition.
Statements

Zakhyst Pratsi: An Appeal from the Workers of Ukraine to the Workers of Belarus

Appeal from PI Member the All-Ukraine Independent Trade Union ‘Zakhyst Pratsi’ to workers in Belarus, fighting the twin threats of neoliberal reform and autocratic rule.
Statements

Congreso de los Pueblos: Legislating from the Peoples of Colombia

The Peoples’ Congress is building a movement to replace the political economy of exploitation with an ethic of the commons.

The West is complicit in police violence in Hong Kong

Student activists are protesting their universities' decision to allow the HKPF to recruit on university job boards.
Labor

Will COVID-19 Spur a Wave of Unionization?

Workers have been infuriated by the callous treatment they’ve received in their workplaces. But many of them recognized that the most surefire way to get their employers to provide the protection they needed was through collective action.
Economy

The Global South Needs a Debt Write-Off

Global South economies like Zambia’s are being battered by the coronavirus. We must write-off their debt now.
Statements

"For Democracy and Transparency in the Plurinational State of Bolivia"

Members of the Progressive International call on the UN & the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to guarantee fair elections in Bolivia.
Politics

Arundhati Roy: India’s Day of Shame

PI Council member Arundhati Roy on the anniversary of Modi’s crackdown in Jammu & Kashmir.
Statements

MSICG Denounces Consolidation of a Dictatorship In Guatemala

The State of Guatemala is experiencing its worst democratic crisis since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996.
Statements

The National Alliance of People’s Movements: Monument of Violations

The NAPM resolves to stand with the overwhelming number of common people, strengthen their cultures of co-existence, fight for the real needs of the poor, working and marginalized people – jobs, livelihood, dignity, security of life and work – and not allow religion to be misused to fuel sectarian strife, to distract us from peoples’ pressing issues and to destroy our secular fabric and constitutional democracy.
Politics

Internationalism in Vietnam, Then and Now

Internationalism in present-day Vietnam builds on the traditions established by Ho Chi Minh.
Social Justice

Reimagining Home in a Time of COVID

Recovery should not mean a return to normal. Instead we must reimagine what is needed to sustain a just home.
Politics

Identity and Anti-Capitalist Politics in Indonesia

To put an end to all forms of systemic discrimination, we need a clear anti-capitalist perspective and action, in both formal and everyday politics.
Social Justice

The Philippines’ New “Terror Law” is tantamount to state terrorism

Progressive groups in the Philippines protesting and seeking to nullify the new “Terror Law” are being met with state oppression.
Statements

PI to the United Nations: Protect Ecuador's Democracy

Members of the Progressive International urge the United Nations to safeguard democracy in Ecuador.
Labor

Rosa Pavanelli: We Must Organize Like Never Before

To rebuild our public services and protect our communities, we must break the unholy alliance of finance and the far right.
Women's Rights

Transnational African feminisms

A conversation with Anette Joseph-Gabriel and Mame Fatou-Niang on the roles and legacy of francophone African women in movements for pan-African liberation.
Statements

The mobilisation and repression of citizens movements continues in the DRC

An activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) outlines five demands of the protest movements that are shaking the country.
Politics

Blood On Their Hands: The Human Cost Of Foreign Support For Bolsonaro

Governments and corporations who supported Bolsonaro’s presidency helped enable a human catastrophe, in the name of “free trade”.
Social Justice

Using Trump’s “Vision” to Break Free of Past Frameworks

Palestinians can use the Trump “vision” to break free of the political frameworks that have limited their rights and freedoms for so long.
Social Justice

Capitalism in Kenya: The Breaking Point

Social justice activists start a project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?
Statements

Ne davimo Beograd: An Uprising in Serbia

The Serbian government is violently cracking down on protests against its handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
Politics

Annexation: What exactly happened?

With every passing day, the prospect of annexation and what that means for Palestinians living under occupation becomes more and more unclear.
Statements

A Post-Pandemic World Order

Covid-19 has deepened a geopolitical realignment long underway. Where do we go from here?
Statements

Harsh Mander: For Our Constitution, For Love

PI Council Member Harsh Mander calls on India to rise up in defense of a just and plural politics.
Social Justice

COVID-19 Has Exposed the Need for Solidarity With Agricultural Workers

The COVID-19 pandemic could help foster solidarity and joint action among agricultural workers, who are geographically divided but closely linked to global food production and consumption chains.
Health

Cuba Has Sent 2,000 Doctors and Nurses Overseas to Fight Covid-19

The Trump administration describes Cuba’s medical response teams as “slaves”—we asked the doctors for their take.
Statements

The Long June of Our Dignity

PI Council member Ece Temelkuran on the need to defend human dignity against the forces of capitalist exploitation and authoritarian violence.
Statements

HDP: Erdoğan Is Criminalizing the Kurdish Community

More detentions and arrests against the HDP and unlawful closure of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
Economy

Countries to face a ‘wave’ of corporate lawsuits challenging emergency COVID-19 measures

Research shows top law firms are preparing to ‘cash in’ on the pandemic by helping corporations sue states for measures impairing their profits.
Statements

The Amazon Strikes and the Language of Power

Amazon workers in Germany are standing up for their rights today. Their demand is as simple as it is righteous: health before profit.
Long Reads

They’re Not Sending Their Best People to Stage a Coup in Venezuela

The recent failed invasion of Venezuela by several clown cars worth of idiotic “freedom fighters” is almost too absurd to believe.
Health

Transparency Has Been Kerala’s Biggest Weapon Against the Coronavirus

Through daily media briefings and health bulletins about infected patients, the Communist government ensured people knew the threat posed by the pandemic.
Long Reads

Ending the Petroleum Age: Carbon Colonies & A Global Green New Deal

We think of ecological consequences as the rising seas, stronger storms and faster floods. But it is not just an ecological price being paid, it is also a political one. For those living in resource colonies, carbon emissions are a guarantee of both atmospheric and administrative misery.
Statements

Climate Justice For Africa

We need to envision a different world, a different Africa, so that this moment can mark a turning point for our region and the world. African Climate Justice Groups on COVID-19.
Politics

Chilean society is pushing for change

The Covid-19 pandemic has only aggravated inequality and highlighted the need for progressive alternatives.
Statements

From Rebellion to Revolution

PI Council member Kali Akuno argues that the Floyd rebellion must be followed by a general strike and People’s Assemblies in the streets.
Environment

How colonists exploit the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil’s Amazon

In line with the plans of Jair Bolsonaro’s government to open up the Amazon Rainforest to private development, miners, loggers and colonists are targeting indigenous peoples.
Long Reads

COVID-19 and the Destructive Force of Privatized Healthcare in Lebanon

How the fundamentals of late-stage capitalism, oligarchic rule, and privatization have gutted public healthcare and compounded the impact of COVID-19 in Lebanon.
Politics

Thousands protest against annexation. But is it enough?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are facing pushback over plans to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank as early as next month.
Environment

Julian Aguon: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

The militarization of Guam is threatening its ecosystem and important cultural and historical sites.
Statements

HKM: Our Internationalism Must Be Anti-Imperialist

HKM is a Pakistan-wide campaign for the enforcement of the fundamental rights in our constitution through grassroots organizing, momentum and pressure.
Social Justice

"Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere"

PI Council members on the uprising in the United States and around the world.
Social Justice

We defend ourselves so we can all breathe in peace

To move from uprising to liberation we each have a role to play. The conflict is at our doors, and we need to put collective needs before individual wants.
Social Justice

The Only Solution Is to Defund the Police

The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor prove what we already knew—police “reform” has failed.
Social Justice

A Progressive Alternative for Lebanon

Progressive voices in Lebanon call for solidarity in their struggle against inequality, oligarchy, and environmental degradation.
Statements

The Landless People’s Movement: Namibia in Lockdown

"The LPM aims to restore the dignity of the Namibian people through mobilization of the masses to stand up for their rights and root out corruption."
Environment

Paola Vega: Water Is a Basic Human Right

Costa Rican Legislative Assembly deputy Paola Vega on the pivotal role of water as a basic human right.
Politics

Symbiosis: Internationalism Beyond the Nation-State

"True internationalism means building people power wherever we live and work."
Statements

The MKSS: The Struggle Against Oppression in India

The MKSS fights for the full recognition and proper implementation of people's rights to education and a decent (working) life.
Statements

The Struggle Must Be Internationalist

PI Council member Ertuğrul Kürkçü on this crucial moment in the general crisis of capitalism.
Environment

The Pandemic Proves We Need a Green New Deal

This pandemic is unbearably painful; it would be unconscionable not to learn all we can from that pain.
Social Justice

Cuba’s Internationalist Campaign Against Covid-19

The Cuba Solidarity Campaign on the medical achievements of Cuban doctors around the world — despite the illegal US blockade.
Ecology

A Green New Deal for South African workers?

COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.
War & Peace

Life Contained in Gaza

Every Friday since March 30, 2018, mass demonstrations have taken place in Gaza along Israel’s separation fence.
Politics

Where the Linear Progression of Hindutva Will Take India

Hidden beneath layers of political exigencies for close to a century, the project is now out on full display.
Politics

An interview with Lula. Part One

Part one of Brasil Wire's interview with two term former Brazilian President Lula da Silva.
Statements

Katrín Jakobsdóttir: The Time for a New International is Now

Prime Minister of Iceland and PI Council member Katrín Jakobsdóttir delivers a plea for progressive unity in a time of pandemic.
Statements

Arundhati Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine

Storied author and PI Council member Arundhati Roy on Covid-19 and the "super-surveillance" state.
Economy

20 Years After Seattle, the Clash of Globalizations Rages On

Alter-globalization is back — but this time, it’s coming from both the left and the right.
Social Justice

Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen

As globalisation takes root in Georgia, its miners face increasingly deadly working conditions.
Politics

How Should We Understand the Results of 2020 Elections in Taiwan?

Looking back at the reelection of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan.
Politics

The Coming Internationalism

In today's collapsing world, the demand for a new internationalism is not only a nostalgic reflection of another era, but a necessity to face the future that is fast approaching.
Migration

Health Nativism

Borders are not going to help us fight the coronavirus.
Ecology

How climate policy stops at the border

The Port of Rotterdam boasts of its green credentials in the Netherlands but invests in fossil fuel mega projects abroad.
Social Justice

30 percent of the Polish population lives in “LGBT-free zones”

All around Poland, local authorities have been declaring their jurisdictions "LGBT-free zones". One Polish activist is fighting to bring them to light.
Politics

Unraveling India’s authoritarian nightmare

What can you do to fight the neoliberal Hindu nationalist state project?
Politics

The Calabria youngsters who don’t study and don’t work

In Italy's Calabria region in the south, many young people don't have a perspective for their future.
Social Justice

The Solution to the Coronavirus Recession Is a Global Green New Deal

A healthy, socially, and ecologically just world demands it.
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