Wire | Progressive International

What we do

Empowering Progressive Activists & Organisers

Crafting a Shared Vision of a World Transformed

Publishing Grassroots & Critical Perspectives

Who we are

About us Council Cabinet Secretariat Members Declaration

Workshop Get Involved

en

العربية

বাংলা

Česky

Deutsch

Ελληνικά

English

Español

فارسی

Français

עִבְרִית‎

हिन्दी

Magyar

Հայերեն

Italiano

日本語

Bahasa Melayu

Norsk (bokmål / nynorsk)

Polski

Português (Portugal)

Português (Brasil)

Русский

தமிழ்

ไทย / Phasa Thai

ትግርኛ

Türkçe

اردو

Wire

We are a wire service to the world's progressive forces.

Every day, the Wire translates stories, essays, and statements from Progressive International members and partner publications.

Our aim is to provide a diversity of perspectives on international issues. Publication in the Wire is not an endorsement from the Progressive International.

Chile’s New Constitution Will Empower Chilean Workers

An interview with labor lawyer Karina Nohales.

Capitalism is causing the food crisis, not war

Small farmers are the world’s primary food suppliers. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates

The Government of Life

Read Gustavo Petro’s full inaugural address, published in English for the first time.

“We stand with Walden Bello.”

The Council of the Progressive International statement on Walden Bello’s arrest.

Wake me up if I survive this war

Déjà vu in Gaza as Israel launches yet another aggressive war against Palestinians.

Honduras Needs a New Constitution to Break With the Old, Corrupt State

An interview with Gerardo Torres, Honduras’s vice minister of foreign affairs.

The Neocolonial Game Behind Musk-Bolsonaro Rendezvous

There was more to South African billionaire Elon Musk’s already bizarre meeting with Brazilian neofascist president Jair Bolsonaro than met the eye.

Northern Africa

Western Sahara’s Polisario Front Calls on the Progressive International

The movement for Sahrawi national liberation invites the Progressive International to bear witness to the struggle to decolonize Western Sahara.

Rethinking Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

An interview with political economist Ahilan Kadirgamar on Sri Lanka’s political economy in a time of great crisis.

Housing and Land Rights

Tribal resistance against militarisation and corporate looting

Over 400 days have passed since the start of the resistance movement against state repression in Silger village on the border of Bijapur-Sukma district in South Bastar of Chhattisgarh.

Sri Lankan Uprising Is a Cry for Regaining Democracy Brutalised by the Rajapaksas

With the stranglehold on polity and economy, characteristic of South Asian politics, the Rajapaksas used a toxic glue of racism and religious enmity to bind the Sinhala majority to their political will, which expectedly misfired.

We are translating Chile's constitution. And we need your help.

Help the Progressive International bring the new Chilean constitution to the world.

Dolores Ibárruri: Long live the heroes of the International Brigades!

The Spanish Civil War began on this day in 1936. To mark the anniversary, today Progressive International republishes Dolores Ibárruri’s (‘La Pasionaria’) Farewell Address to the International Brigades, delivered in Barcelona on 28th October 1938.

REVEALED: Systematic migrant expulsion and drift-backs under Greek PM Mitsotakis

Council member Eyal Weizman on the trove of 1000 cases of ‘illegal and brutal’ expulsions revealed today by Forensic Architecture.

How Colombian women decriminalized abortion

While abortion rights across the globe are under attack — most recently in the United States — the successful feminist mobilization in a deeply conservative country like Colombia should give reason for hope

Las grandes farmacéuticas han ganado

El Subsecretario de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud para el Gobierno de México, Hugo López-Gatell, habla sobre el fracaso de las negociaciones para el acceso más equitativo a las vacunas contra el Covid-19 en la OMC.

Is India Lurching Into a Genocide?

PI council member Harsh Mander on how India’s leaders have taken it to the very edge of the abyss.

Rojava's State of Emergency

The urgent call from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria to fight Erdogan with “all means”.

A Total mess

Total is creating a social and economic disaster in Mozambique, consulting the same playbook it uses in Myanmar and Yemen where it extracts resources and silences communities.

“We seek lasting peace while NATO prepares for perpetual war.”

A statement from the Progressive International Cabinet at the close of the the NATO Summit in Madrid.

Bulatlat raises alarm against gov’t order to block sites of independent media, progressives

“No matter who is in power, we have remained fearless in our truth-telling. We will continue our work while we also consider all legal remedies available to question, and stop yet another state-sponsored repression.”

International Feminist Alert

Declaration On The Ruling Of The U.S. Court

“The government of hope has arrived.”

The Progressive International congratulates Council member Gustavo Petro and VP Francia Márquez.

“In Colombia, we are fighting for life.”

The Progressive International lands in Bogotá ahead of the final round of the presidential election.

Guevara: Message to the Tricontinental

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born on this day in 1928. Today we republish his message to the 1966 Tricontinental conference — a meeting of anti-colonial nations to advance the struggle against imperialism in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

HDP: Kobani was not an exception

Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Honorary President of the Peoples' Democratic Party of Turkey, on the struggle for peace, democracy, and solidarity with the Kurdish people.

“We are mobilizing against Erdoğan’s assault on the Kurdish people.”

The Progressive International lands in Hewlêr/Erbil as Turkey wages NATO-backed war on the Kurdish people and other ethnic and religious communities.

Housing and Land Rights

The UK still shamefully occupies the Chagos islands

In the 1960s, the British government evicted the entire indigenous population of more than 1,500 islanders from the archipelago, then claimed it had no permanent population to justify its breach of international law.

"Peoples must have the right to live their own story, their own life."

Keynote speech at the Summit at the End of the World by Aleida Guevara, revolutionary doctor and daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Historical perspectives: Thailand: The 51st US State?

While Vietnam was seen as the frontline of the “struggle against communist aggression” during the Cold War, Thailand was its bulwark.

IUVENTA: Humanity on trial

Activists saved 14,000 lives on the Mediterranean. Now, they stand accused of "aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration".

Northern Africa

In Algeria, divorced mothers mobilize for the custody of their children

In Algeria, when a divorced woman remarries, she loses custody of her children — unlike a man who can remarry unconditionally. For several months, Algerian women have been protesting to have the law changed.

Northern Africa

The Progressive International stands with Alaa Abdel Fattah

Members of the Progressive International Council stand in solidarity with Egyptian/British writer, software developer and human rights activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Corbyn, Temelkuran, Varoufakis: The Athens Declaration

Members of the PI Council gather in Greece to call for "support for victims of war and a new Non-Aligned Movement."

"It’s not enough to resist. We have to build too."

Jeremy Corbyn's inaugural speech at the Summit at the End of the World.

"Yes we are poor. But we live in the center of the world."

At the Progressive International Summit, Bolivia’s Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, made a powerful call for us to shift our perspective and re-think the centres of power and change in the world.

How US Security Assistance Funds Turkey’s Anti-Kurdish Aggression

As Turkey is engaged in a vicious military invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan and intensifying political repression at home, previously unreported documents reveal the extent of U.S. assistance to Turkish officials who designed and implemented the country’s anti-Kurdish policies.

Northern Africa

The history of Western Sahara is a history of betrayal

In a fresh betrayal, Spain is once again denying the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.

Will the EU keep sliding toward autocracy?

The Progressive International mobilizes to Slovenia to monitor Sunday’s elections as PM Janša escalates attacks on press, opposition, and the right to protest.

War against the Kurds will not prevent Erdogan’s downfall

We must break the silence on Turkey’s invasion of South Kurdistan and take action!

Members of the PI Wire Stand in Solidarity With Hungary’s Independent Media

Members of the Progressive International’s Wire across five continents express solidarity with Hungary’s independent left media, including fellow Wire partner Mérce, in the face of Viktor Orbán’s election win.

It’s Time to Cancel Ukraine’s Foreign Debt

Ukraine owes billions of dollars in foreign debt, most of it to international finance institutions, banks, and hedge funds. If Western governments were serious about helping Ukrainians amid a devastating war, they would push for those debts to be canceled.

Inside the Winter of Discontent for India's Gig Workers

India’s gig workers have been sidelined by the government for far too long. Now, an Indian trade union has filed a Public Interest Litigation to fight back.

Strawberry Fields Should Never

Report from a visit to Spain's strawberry fields

"We reject the EU’s 'compromise' TRIPs waiver proposal and call on you to do the same”

The reported EU and USA “compromise” proposal on removing restrictions on the production and distribution of Covid-19 treatments would be worse than no deal at all.

We are mobilizing to Hungary. Here’s why

The Progressive International is sending a delegation to Hungary ahead of its parliamentary election on 3 April — an election that many expect to be neither fair nor democratic.

Italian pro-refugee mayor Mimmo Lucano in his own words

In September last year, an Italian court sentenced Mimmo Lucano to a shocking 13 years and two months in prison for the crime of helping those most in need: refugees.

In Poland, a Refugee Center for Those Farthest From Home

Ever since Russia invaded, Dr. Tade Daniel Omoshoto has been scrambling to find food, shelter, and transportation for the thousands of Africans fleeing war.

Why climate justice must go beyond borders

The elite’s ‘solution’ to the climate crisis is to turn the displaced into exploitable migrant labour. We need a truly internationalist alternative.

Hungary’s teachers’ unions prepare largest-ever mobilisation

After months of fruitless negotiations and two earlier mobilizations, the Hungarian education sector is going on an indefinite strike.

We are going to Colombia. Here’s why

Observers from the Progressive International land in Bogotá amid escalating violence against workers, farmers, and activists

El pueblo de Argentina exige justicia al FMI. ¿Quién la impartirá?

En 2018 el FMI concedió el mayor préstamo de su historia a Argentina: $56.300 millones de dólares.

Alexandra Kollontai: 'Women's Day'

On this day in 1913, Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai published 'Women's Day' in Pravda.

A Trail of Blood: Resisting Tyranny in the Philippines

In 2021, at least 29,782 human rights violations were committed by state forces of the Rodrigo Duterte administration — an average of 82 per day.

Another state-sponsored crime against social leaders in Colombia

Peasant leaders Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Alberto Tafur were assassinated during the night of 22 February while in a house in the village of Puerto Oculto, municipality of San Martín, in the department of Cesar. Both social leaders were members of the peasant organisation Coordinador Nacional Agrario (CNA) and of Congreso de los Pueblos.

Ertuğrul Kürkçü: Öcalan’s freedom is a democratic necessity for all

On the anniversary of Abdullah Öcalan’s imprisonment, PI council member Ertuğrul Kürkçü speaks to the enduring importance of freeing Abdullah Öcalan.

Housing and Land Rights

Unexplained Ordnance: Missile in Australia’s Western Desert Sparks Landmark OECD Case

Military weapons testing is destroying Aboriginal heritage sites — a new case brings the fight to the weapons manufacturers themselves.

Turkish Delivery Workers Protest for Wage Increase and Unionization Rights

Skyrocketing inflation has hit Turkish workers hard — especially those who are self-employed in the so-called gig economy. Now, they’re striking for higher wages and the right to form a union.

The Belmarsh Tribunal: Imperialism on Trial

The Belmarsh Tribunal comes to New York to expose the crimes of the so-called War on Terror 20 years after the first prisoners were brought to Guantánamo Bay — and to reiterate its call for Assange’s freedom.

Open the college gates, let Muslim women study!

Muslim students fight against a "hijab ban" in universities.

Housing and Land Rights

The Naqab is now front and centre in the struggle against Israeli settler colonialism

The residents of Sa’wa and other Palestinian Bedouins are resisting Israeli regime police forces’ attempts to displace them.

Manufacturing hate: Big Tech, IT cells, and Narendra Modi’s BJP

With the help of a whistleblower, a bombshell investigation by The Wire has uncovered a secret app called ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated tool to spread disinformation online. It is used by online operatives with links to India’s BJP to target political opponents, muslims, and women journalists.

All eyes on Costa Rica

Delegates from the PI Observatory land in San José as Costa Rica prepares for its general election.

Hands off peasant land!

40 Indian progressive organizations and individuals condemn the brutal police violence against the people of Dhinkia Chaaridesh — and demand an end to attempts to seize their lands.

We are returning to Honduras. Here's why.

The Progressive International lands in Tegucigalpa to observe the inauguration of president-elect Xiomara Castro amidst warnings of a coup in the making.

Cuba pledges “lifesaving package” of Covid-19 vaccine support to Global South at Progressive International briefing

The Cuban government has announced advanced plans to deliver tens of millions of doses of homegrown Covid-19 vaccines to the Global South, described as “lifesaving” by the head of the Progressive International’s delegation to the Caribbean nation.

Housing and Land Rights

‘Two-time refugees’: Israel forcibly expels Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah and demolishes their home

According to testimony from one of the family members, Yasmin Salhiya, posted on social media, Israeli forces beat a number of the family members during the arrest, including a nine-year-old girl.

Free Abortion Across Borders

Following Mexico’s Supreme Court ruling to decriminalize abortion, feminists in the country continue to help people access care. Their work can serve as a model for U.S. activists navigating the limits of state health services.

We are going to Cuba to help vaccinate the world

Delegates from the Union for Vaccine Internationalism will travel to Havana for a special showcase of the Cuban vaccines amidst a global surge in Covid-19 infections.

Rosa Luxemburg: Order Prevails in Berlin

On the anniversary of her murder, we publish an extract from Rosa Luxemburg’s final publication, written just hours before she was captured by the proto-fascist Freikorps in Berlin.

UK sponsors deregulation of labour rights in Ukraine

Documents seen by openDemocracy show the British Foreign Office has advised the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy on how to push through new labour legislation.

A touch of class struggle in Germany’s car industry

Workers at a Bosch plant in Germany are fighting to keep their jobs with, to their surprise, support from climate activists. Their common demand is that there are no layoffs for climate protection, but instead a transition to ecological production.

Five Stories That Shaped 2021

2021 was a year of suffering and struggle, repression and resistance — one in which the contradictions in global capitalism sharpened, and peoples’ movements rose up in force to confront them.

Close Red Hill Now

Statement on the crimes of the US Navy in Hawai’i

Housing and Land Rights

The Landless Workers Movement’s fight for popular agrarian reform through land occupation in Brazil

Interview with Alexandre Conceiçao from the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, MST) - an organisation that has been active in Brazil since 1984 and is one of the largest social movements in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million members.

UK court ruling on Venezuelan assets is based on ‘Illegal Interference’

“Juan Guaido has never been elected president of Venezuela and his recognition as such is itself a crime,” argued international law expert Dock Currie.

The WTO Threatens the Farmers’ Victory — Unless We Resist

The convener of Bharatiya Kisan Union, the Indian Farmers’ Union, calls for India to leave the WTO.

Salvador Allende: Last Words

Speech delivered from La Moneda at 9:10 am on 11 September 1973, in the final hours of the US-sponsored coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power.

“We will bury neoliberalism and rebuild the world.”

The Progressive International statement on Chile’s historic election.

Barbados has thrown off its colonial shackles. Now the real change must come

Barbados has removed the Queen as its head of state, as it begins a new national journey to remove any lingering British influence.

Palestinian civil society organizations refuse to be silenced by Israeli government

The Israeli government is attempting to silence six Palestinian civil society organizations by declaring them “terrorist organizations”. But they refuse to be suppressed and will continue to call out human rights violations.

Sudanese women on the front lines of the resistance

Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: their human rights are at stake.

"International solidarity once failed the people of Chile. It must not fail today."

Parliamentarians and public figures from over 15 countries unite in defense of Chilean democracy ahead of 19 December elections.

Housing and Land Rights

Court ruling threatens eviction of 450 families from Landless Workers Movement camp

The decision, which authorizes the eviction of residents of the Marielle Vive camp in Valinhos, Brazil,contradicts a ruling from earlier this year which suspended forced removals during the COVID-19 pandemic until December 31.

Huge victory for Indian farmers after Modi’s agricultural reforms are repealed by parliament

A relentless and inspiring mobilisation of farmers across India against Modi’s agricultural reforms has resulted in a resounding victory.

Beneath Striketober Fanfare, the Lower Frequencies of Class Struggle Need To Be Heard

“Striketober” marked a surge in worker mobilisation in the United States — but it must only be the beginning.

Honduras rises up to reclaim its democracy

A statement from the Observatory on Sunday's historic election

Carers of the World vs. Covid-19 Criminals

The Progressive International is mobilizing nurses unions around the world to take on Big Pharma and the governments they have captured.

Amazon, solidarity doesn't scare easily

Amazon may be everywhere, but we are too.  And we have the power to Make Amazon Pay.

The world is watching Honduras

The Progressive International is in Tegucigalpa to conduct official observation as escalating violence threatens Sunday's election.

PI Council member Giorgio Jackson stands with Chile’s political prisoners

In the wake of the 2019 social uprising, protesters all over Chile became political prisoners. PI Council member Giorgio Jackson visited some of their relatives on hunger strike to support their demand for a general pardon.

Amazon’s hunt for public contracts generates backlash

Amazon is winning big money contracts from governments across Europe but activists hope to turn this receipt of public money against the corporate giant.

Hungarian teachers’ unions join forces against the Orban government’s refusal to improve working conditions

Two major Hungarian teaching trade unions join forces to set out four new demands in the face of continued government inaction.

We are mobilizing to Chile. Here's why.

The Progressive International lands in Santiago ahead of historic presidential elections.

It’s time to delist the PKK as a terror organisation

The Belgian Supreme Court has recently delisted the PKK as a terror organisation. It’s time for other countries to follow suit.

Announcing the Progressive International Observatory

Democratic institutions are under attack. Here’s how we fight back.

The Left Is Still Favored to Win Chile’s Presidency — But the Far Right Is Gaining Steam

With less than a month until Chile’s presidential election, hopes are high that leftist Gabriel Boric will win. But the collapse of the center right has unexpectedly allowed far-right nominee José Antonio Kast to surge.

Jeremy Corbyn: We Need to Take Power From the People Who Are Destroying Our Planet

Despite all the talk of a global environmental movement, polluters continue to have free reign. Only a huge redistribution of power can prevent the climate crisis from deepening.

Oil industry bigwigs given platform at COP26 despite organisers’ claims

As hosts, the UK government said Big Oil companies wouldn’t be welcome, but BP’s CEO is among fossil fuel lobbyists at the heart of the conference.

Tribal people from India march to save the Hasdeo forest from mining project

Tribal people from the Hasdeo Forest embarked on a historical foot march to the state capital to save their lands and livelihoods from a mining project by the Indian multinational Adani group.

The Global South’s Red lines for COP26

The Global South’s vision on how to tackle climate change exposes the wider systemic problems that caused this crisis.

IPCC Warns that Capitalism is Unsustainable

A second leak from the Sixth Report of the UN panel of experts, originally obtained by CTXT, clearly states that the only way to avoid climate collapse is to move away from an economic model based on perpetual growth.

The Bloody Trade

Australia has Yemeni blood on its hands.

SPA: Support our peaceful struggle to reclaim democracy in Sudan

PI member Sudanese Professionals' Association (SPA) calls for international solidarity in the Sudanese people's fight against the military coup.

Housing and Land Rights

Wakasighau: The Forgotten Victims of British Colonial Land Dispossession

The effects of the British colonial policy of subjugation through dispossession and exile continue to reverberate among the Wakasighau people in Kenya.

British Army Ignored Five Fires Before Sparking Kenya Inferno

The British army did not investigate five bush fires its soldiers sparked in Kenya weeks before they ignited an even larger inferno that destroyed thousands of acres of East African wildlife reserve and left one man dead.

Israel labels leading Palestinian human rights groups ‘terrorist institutions’

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced a list of six Palestinian human rights organizations which he claimed have links to militant “terror” groups.

The Pandora Papers show the true face of global Britain

Through its network of tax havens, the UK is the fulcrum of a system that benefits the rich and powerful.

"We stand with Andrés Arauz"

An open letter to demand justice for the Pandora Papers in Ecuador.

UN Expert Releases Full Report on Impact of US-led Sanctions Against Venezuela

UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan reiterated her call for sanctions relief, stating they undermine Venezuelans’ human rights.

Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal Comes to London

The War on Terror is put on trial in London through the Belmarsh Tribunal

Community guards: self-protection and peoples’ autonomy

Community guard groups, Peasant, Cimarrona and Indigenous, from all over Colombia held the National Popular Assembly (NPA) last July in Cali. They nurture and cultivate practices of popular and ancestral power inherited from centuries ago and organise community members around the defense of their respective territories and spaces.

Pro-Refugee Mayor Mimmo Lucano Is Being Jailed, But He Has Justice on His Side

Mimmo Lucano is famous as the Italian mayor who rejuvenated his long-abandoned town by allowing refugees to live in empty homes. Now, he was sentenced to thirteen years in jail for the crime of helping human beings in need.

In Defense of the Westminster Three

You can arrest activists, but you cannot arrest the truth.

“Allow humanitarian aid to reach Venezuela”

Parliamentarians call on Novo Banco to deblock funds destined for vaccines and medicines for infants in Venezuela.

Organizing against militarism from Israel to Europe

Israel uses military and security technologies to maintain its system of settler-colonialism, apartheid and occupation. At the same time, the EU invests billions in Israeli arms companies to further militarize its border agency Frontex. Only global antimilitarist movement can resist both.

Housing and Land Rights

Berliners To Vote On Expropriating Housing From Powerful Landlords

After years of rising rent forced many Berliners out of the city, activists have managed to force a vote on whether to allow the expropriation of housing owned by landlords with over 3,000 units on the Sept. 26 election ballot.

South Africa’s gaping wounds

The social unrest in South Africa’s impoverished communities has laid bare historic wounds and divisions that are still very much present. They need urgent healing.

The Global South Stands United Against Apartheid

Over 700 Global South leaders call for an end to Israeli apartheid and de facto annexation.

"Germany can and must lead the charge to vaccinate the world."

More than 140 Heads of State and Government and Nobel Laureates urge the next German Chancellor to support a wide and comprehensive waiver of intellectual property rules on all COVID-19-related technologies at the WTO.

The time for universal social protection is now

Care workers face some of the harshest working conditions, receive low wages and have little social protection. But winning a better future is possible when they organize and fight – like in South Africa, where domestic workers achieved an historic victory this year.

"We are gravely concerned about the threat to Brazil’s democratic institutions."

Over 150 parliamentarians, ministers, and ex-presidents from 26 countries warn of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's plans for an 'insurrection' on 7 September.

UK military unit in Colombia ‘assisted’ police force that killed 63 protesters

As Colombian police killed dozens of protesters in May, a UK military team of up to nine soldiers was assisting them in a secret programme.

From Stroessner to Syngenta: Paraguay’s Soy Conflicts

The ‘soybeanisation’ of the Paraguayan economy has had a devastating impact on the country’s ecology, rural populations and democratic process — but it has been lucrative for foreign corporations and the domestic oligarchy.

Farmers, not corporations, will transform the food system

The UN Food Systems Summit is tainted by corporate interests — the people are building an alternative.

Housing and Land Rights

Indonesian Farmers Struggle to Reclaim Their Land

For the people of Indonesia’s Pakel Village, the struggle against land grabbing and environmental destruction has lasted 100 years. And their fight isn’t over yet.

PI Brazil Delegation Lands

Invited by Brazil's Articulation of Indigenous Peoples (APIB), the Progressive International delegation lands in Brasilia to "stop Bolsonaro" and join nation-wide struggles for "life, land and labor"

We Unite in the Struggle for Life

On 23 August, we, Indigenous peoples from all regions of Brazil and progressive forces from around the world, will unite in the *Luta pela Vida*, the struggle for life — and we invite all those who share high concerns for the future of our planet and humankind to join us.

The Amazon at the Tipping Point

Humanity has flipped the Amazon from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

African Young Women Resisting Beyond Borders

Although still facing deeply entrenched oppression by patriarchal power, a new generation of African women is using the internet to mobilize, organise and unite in their struggles.

Peru’s Socialist President, Pedro Castillo, in His Own Words

Pedro Castillo, president of Peru, describes his journey from elementary school teacher to trade union militant to the cusp of state power.

Shale Must Fall: Call to Action!

Shale Must Fall, an international solidarity campaign against fracking, calls on progressive forces to join its global day of action on 30 July.

APIB to PI: “We ask for your support to help us stop this catastrophe.”

Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (APIB) calls on the Progressive International to stand against Bolsonaro’s genocidal Ferrogrão mega-project.

Striking oil workers demand better wages and working conditions in Iran

Petrochemical workers on major strike in Iran.

Dying to be regularised

100+ activists and thinkers sign open letter in support of Brussels’ hunger strikers.

"Now more than ever, we must end the US blockade"

Remarks by Cuba's Vice-Minister of Public Health at the Summit for Vaccine Internationalism.

Bezos’ dystopian legacy goes far beyond Amazon

In his 27 years as Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos has championed highly invasive tactics where workers are relentlessly monitored, evaluated, and subjected to grueling conditions. These are now spreading rapidly across fulfillment centers in ecommerce, and to other employers and industries.

Housing and Land Rights

Under Bolsonaro, Attacks on Amazonians Have Skyrocketed

A new report finds that violence against Indigenous people, quilombolas and peasants is on the rise as Bolsonaro-enabled capitalists continue to eat away at the Amazon.

The Victory of Carabobo Lives On

Paweł Wargan, Coordinator of the Secretariat, shares his views on the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World.

The “Zapatista invasion” has begun!

The Zapatista delegation has successfully sailed from Mexico to Europe — here’s why.

Rise for the Earth: Manifesto for the Right to Life and the Territory of Indigenous Peoples

The Brazilian government is using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover to escalate land grabs, ecologically destructive mega-projects and other anti-indigenous measures. In response, Indigenous peoples have occupied the capital Brasília to fight for their territories and the right to life.

Taiwan’s Food Delivery Workers Call for National Union

Their struggle for unionization reflects a growing movement of food delivery workers around the world.

Summit for Vaccine Internationalism hails a “new international health order.”

Global South states commit to share Covid-19 vaccine technology and production at the four-day Summit.

After failure of G7, Global South countries come together to “end the pandemic with solidarity, not charity”

The Progressive International’s four day Summit for vaccine internationalism opens today, Friday 18 June 2021, with the goal of ending “the pandemic as quickly as possible by securing Covid-19 vaccines for all”.

SYKP: Fascist Erdoğan must be stopped!

Encouraged by Erdoğan's and his allies' rhetoric, gunmen killed Deniz Poyraz, a female member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) at its offices in Turkey's western city of Izmir on 17 June.

Vaccine Internationalism Is How We End the Pandemic

The G7 is prolonging the pandemic. The Summit for Vaccine Internationalism is organizing to end it.

Defend Kurdistan Against Turkish Occupation

Allies of the Kurdish people gather in Erbil today to call for solidarity in defense of Kurdistan against Erdoğan’s attacks.

Indian women rise up against Modi’s Farm Bills

Women are turning the tide against the patriarchal oppression and agrarian distress that have often kept them from organizing actively in farmers' resistance.

Abolish Frontex, End the EU Border Regime

Actions in seven countries target the deadly border agency.

“We must defend popular sovereignty in Peru”

Progressive International finds no evidence of systematic fraud in Peru elections.

Health and life first, then debt

PI members, public intellectuals, artists, activists and politicians from Argentina call for an international response to the Covid-19 pandemic that puts health and life before debt.

Housing and Land Rights

Solidarity Statement of the Southeast Asian Left

20+ Southeast Asian parties and allies: “Let us unite in the spirit of working-class internationalism, to challenge the existing capitalist order and to rebuild our world with a socialist vision.”

The Myth Of ‘Ethical’ Fashion: How A Multinational Clothing Brand Neglected Its Women Workers

The COVID-19 pandemic has been used as an excuse to hide anti-worker actions by apparel brands and their supplier factories.

Police Brutality: How Protesters Resist State Violence Around the World

Police forces around the world share tactics for how to police protests — protesters should do the same to defend themselves.

Housing and Land Rights

The Aboriginal Wangan and Jagalingou Nation Is Standing Against a Disastrous New Coal Mine in Australia

Traditional Aboriginal landowners are waging a determined fight to stop an ecologically and culturally destructive project.

The Progressive International is mobilizing to Peru

The PI answers urgent calls to defend Peruvian democracy from authoritarian intervention.

Why Kenyans Fear Another IMF Loan

The terrible impact of past IMF loans has made it clear to many Kenyans that yet another loan spells disaster.

Amazon workers across the world launch action to Make Amazon Pay All Its Workers

Amazon workers, trade unions, and their supporters around the world are coming out in support of their fellow workers in Amazon’s supply chain in a show of unity between warehouse, delivery, and garment workers across borders.

Ammar Ali Jan: Internationalism or Apartheid

Statement from new PI Council member Ammar Ali Jan

“We promise freedom. They charge us with treason.”

A call for solidarity from the Landless People’s Movement.

The Progressive International announces new council and organisational members

23 global leaders, including Corbyn and Žižek, join the Progressive International’s council, as the organisation marks first anniversary

How new Left media are building opposition to South Asia's right-wing regimes

Unlike the complicit South Asian mainstream media, independent outlets like PI member Jamhoor are speaking truth to corporate and state power.

End the Nakba Now

The PI declaration of solidarity with the people of Palestine.

The Cuba Blockade is a Crime Against Humanity

The fight against the Cuba blockade is more than a legal matter. It is a political struggle that requires a radical battle against capitalism and its mode of production.

A temporary TRIPS waiver is not enough — and US voters know it.

Large majority of US voters support waiving all patents on life-saving medicines and compelling Moderna to share its technology.

Delivery drivers’ struggles are an inspiration to fight against precariousness everywhere

The spike in delivery work throughout the pandemic can be a catalyst for the wider struggle against precariousness.

SOS Colombia

The PI statement on the Duque massacres in Colombia.

Economic crime in the Niger Delta

Shell, its counterparts in Nigeria’s oil industry, and local and international elites must accept responsibility for the environmental damage in the Niger Delta. Everything else is just PR.

Colombia Protests: We Will Continue to Strike Until We Achieve a Dignified Life.

A painful year of pandemic, hunger, inequality, and decades of exclusion have led to an unsustainable situation that cannot be solved by staying at home.

Housing and Land Rights

Indigenous transborder communities and the (f)utility of borders

As borders between Latin American nation-states have been shut because of the Covid-19 pandemic, transborder indigenous communities resisted the counterproductive fragmentation of their territories — and continued to question the general logic of borders and state-centric sovereignty.

Housing and Land Rights

“It is a Nakba”: Inside The Campaign to save Sheikh Jarrah

The people of Sheikh Jarrah continue their fight against their “ongoing Nakba”.

The Pandemic Paradox: Welfare Measures and Forced Evictions for Delhi’s Marginal Urban Dwellers

Despite the pandemic, the question for Delhi’s slum dwellers is still what welfare means if the right to housing is breached.

Democracy is on trial in Turkey. We are mobilizing to defend it.

The PI delegation arrives to Turkey to witness the historic trial of the "Kobani case."

Sakhnin: The February Theses — The Left and the Political Crisis in Russia

PI Council member Alexey Sakhnin sets out his perspective on the protests that swept Russia in February 2021 — and charts a way forward for the Russian left.

Northern America

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

The Red Deal is a manifesto and movement — borne of Indigenous resistance and decolonial struggle — to liberate all peoples and save our planet.

Is Chile’s Sebastian Piñera on his way to the International Criminal Court?

Since 2019, Piñera’s government has systemically violated human rights. An interview with Mauricio Dazza, the prosecutor trying to take him to the ICC.

Large majority of US voters support patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

Shock poll reveals majority support for Joe Biden to suspend TRIPS and support global vaccination.

Indigenous Activists Occupy Mexico City

Tessy Schlosser of the Progressive International interviews Maricela Mejía, a feminist and Indigenous leader who helped organize the Third National Encounter of Women of the National Indigenous Congress.

“The Istanbul Convention can't be taken away”

Turkey’s feminist movement has expanded and diversified in recent years — and may be further galvanised by President Erdoğan’s sudden withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.

The Khartoum Massacre: When the Sudanese Revolution Lost Its Innocence

A first person account on surviving the Khartoum massacre and trying to make sense of what remains from the Sudanese revolution.

We are returning to Ecuador. Here's why.

The PI mobilizes to defend democracy in the final round of Ecuador's presidential election.

Workers in Myanmar Are Launching General Strikes to Resist the Military Coup

Young women garment workers speak to the critical role they have played in leading a general strike in resistance against Myanmar’s military coup.

How racism leaves Roma families in Czechia without a home

Because of racism and stigmatization, Roma families are struggling to find decent housing in Czechia. After Christmas last year, many have been evicted — despite the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

A mural of the struggle for popular sovereignty by Bolivia’s Indigenous peoples

In the course of the 2019 coup, Jeanine Añez’s illegitimate regime deployed the armed forces against Indigenous peoples fighting for their sovereignty, taking hundreds of their lives. This mural in La Paz depicts their struggle.

Justice for the Victims of the Áñez Coup

The Progressive International statement on the prosecution of Bolivia’s coup leadership.

To Fix Democracy in Malaysia, Rebuild Mass Movements

When COVID-19 hit, Malaysia plunged into a deep political crisis, reaching its peak with the declaration of a state of emergency and the suspension of parliamentary sitting earlier this year. With political elites shifting allegiances overnight just to stay in power, only mass mobilization can resolve the crisis and build a better Malaysia.

São Paulo teachers’ strike: “We are defending life.”

A São Paulo teacher tells the story of an insane return to the classroom, as ordered by the city hall. They lack staff, classrooms have precarious ventilation and infrastructure problems abound. All this fuels the collapse of the Brazilian healthcare system.

Introducing the Art of Internationalism

The Progressive International introduces its art platform, Art of Internationalism

Solidarity with the People of Haiti in Their Struggle for Democracy, Justice, and Reparations

Only the Haitian people can decide their own future. The dictatorship imposed by former president Jovenel Moïse and its imperialist enablers need to go – and make space for a people’s transition government.

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Tea pluckers say the household-goods giant failed to protect them from brutal and foreseeable attacks.

The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white gold’

Documents obtained by Declassified UK revealed UK welcomed coup against Morales in order to access Bolivian lithium.

Manifesto For Human Life

On the anniversary of Covid-19, we must build a world centered on human life — a planet of care, equality, and popular sovereignty.

In Tbilisi, delivery drivers learn their power lies in stopping work

A protest campaign in Georgia shows the potential of self-organisation by delivery drivers.

Portraits of Vietnamese Women At War

Women played a crucial role in the fight against colonialism and capitalism in Vietnam.

Northern Africa

How Egyptian women have broken the stigma around sexual violence

An explosion of social resistance is shedding new light on Egypt’s epidemic of sexual violence.

Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India

In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.

Argentina’s long struggle for legal abortion

After many years of campaigning, Argentina’s feminist movements booked a historic victory when abortion was finally legalized.

Northern America

U.S. Farmers and Activists: We Stand with India’s Farmers!

Now let’s connect the dots between the forces of neoliberalism that stifle farmers, from India to the U.S.

Northern Africa

"The Sahrawi people have waited for too long to exercise their rights."

An open letter by 100 Sahrawi civil society organizations in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, Sahrawi refugee camps and the Diaspora to US President Joe Biden.

Bezos is to Blame For Amazon Workers’ Public Defecation

Amazon delivery drivers are being shamed for relieving themselves in public. But it is the working conditions enforced by Amazon that are to blame.

Thomas Sankara: A United Front Against Debt

In 1987, Thomas Sankara called for a united front against debt. His struggle remains as urgent today as it was then.

The G20 is gathering. Debt justice is our demand.

“Drop the debt, drive investment, and deliver justice for all peoples of the world.”

‘We Shall Not Surrender’: Myanmar Rises Up Against the Junta

As the protests in Myanmar continue to spread, people are uniting against the military dictatorship.

Ecuador’s Democracy is Under Attack

Ecuador’s democracy is under attack. We must fight to defend it.

Housing and Land Rights

The struggles and aspirations of the Tumandok

Faced with ever increasing persecution, the Tumandok people of the Philippines are resisting development projects that would destroy not only their livelihoods but also their way of life.

Lava Jato: The CIA’s Poisoned Gift to Brazil

Recently leaked conversations show shocking levels of US involvement in Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption case against former president Lula da Silva.

US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France

Trân Tô Nga, a 78-year-old woman who fell victim to the herbicidal chemical cocktail known as Agent Orange, is taking the firms responsible for its production to court.

The Progressive International denies the false and malicious information published by the Colombian magazine Semana

We reject the absurd idea that Arauz received funds from the ELN.

On the periphery: India’s sex workers

Already living on the periphery of society, India’s sex workers have been hit hard by the pandemic.

Northern America

2020: A Year of Resistance in Tech

2020 has been a record-breaking year for collective action in the tech sector.

The Building Bridges Initiative Has Distorted Kenya’s Democracy

Kenya’s ruling and opposition parties’ coming together spells disaster for all.

Caste Law Still Governs the Indian Prison System. Part One

An original investigation into a system where certain lives are to be punished more than others.

We are mobilizing to Ecuador. Here’s why.

The people of Ecuador are fighting to recover their popular sovereignty. International solidarity will be critical to their success.

Announcing the Collective Action in Tech Fellowship

In partnership with Collective Action in Tech, the Progressive International supports stories of tech activism in the Global South.

A Room With No View: Inside an Amazon Warehouse

PI member Finn Smyth’s first-hand account of working at an Amazon warehouse.

Joe Biden, End Illegal US Sanctions Now

The Progressive International calls on President Joe Biden to cease unilateral and illegal US sanctions.

Israel is Demonstrating Medical Apartheid, Not Vaccine Leadership

Below the headlines celebrating Israel’s vaccination rates lies a far darker story about health inequality.

Czechs Don’t Use Amazon, but Amazon Does Use Czechs

When faced with protest and unionizing, Amazon’s solution is to move its production elsewhere.

The West Is Still Complicit in the War on Yemen

The US — as well as European powers like France and Germany — continue to sell arms and pour fuel on the humanitarian disaster in Yemen.

The PI will send an observer delegation to Ecuador

The Progressive International wins approval to send election observer mission to Ecuador

Northern America

Carnage Comes Home

The Progressive International statement on the Capitol insurrection of 6 January 2021.

Bogazici University Protests: Academic freedom versus Recep Erdogan

Protests are spreading across Turkey as academic freedom comes under assault at Bogazici University.

The Healing Power of Art, From a Museum in Kolkata

A look at how a museum in Bengal can help India confront the historical traumas of Partition.

PI to CNE: To observe and protect democracy in Ecuador

The Progressive International delegation submits its application to observe Ecuador's presidential elections next month.

MSICG: Guatemala no longer has a democratic regime

An interview with trade union and PI member MSICG on the popular uprisings in Guatemala – and the need for a National Constituent Assembly.

Northern America

Urgent Call to End the Illegal Sanctions by the United States of America

US sanctions are suffocating the world. The Progressive International calls the UN to end them.

Nanjala Nyabola: The Sea That Eats Our Children

PI council member Nanjala Nyabola on Europe’s complicity in turning the Mediterranean Sea into a mass graveyard.

IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again.

Members of the Debt Justice working group call on IMF President Georgieva to deliver on the promise of a just recovery.

Bulatlat: We will not be muzzled

Against state security forces repeatedly branding them as “enemies of the state”, PI Wire member Bulatlat calls on the public to defend press freedom and access to information.

The Coronavirus Emergency Among Migrant Farm Workers in Italy

Migrant workers in Italy’s South have been trapped in overcrowded camps — leaving them exposed to the virus, unable to work and without any income.

Dear Mr. Bezos, the Days of Amazon’s Impunity Are Over

401 parliamentarians and public officials from 34 countries pledge to #MakeAmazonPay.

How Do We Solve a Problem Like Amazon?

We must find new strategies to loosen Amazon’s grip on workers, peoples and the planet to #MakeAmazonPay.

Common Wealth: To #MakeAmazonPay, Reimagine the Platform Economy

Another digital world is possible — democratic, and just by design.

We are launching The Internationalist

The Progressive International introduces a weekly show connecting struggles across the planet.

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

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

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.

Make Amazon Pay

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Northern Africa

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.

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

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

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