The new members come from ten different countries and include three trade unions, a farmers’ organisation, three political parties, a debtors union, a feminist movement, a federation of agrarian cooperatives, two socialist political organisations and a housing movement.
The new members are:
The Petroleum Industry Workers Union (USO) - the union for 25,000 workers in Colombia’s oil industry that decades ago won public ownership for much of their industry through mass strikes and today face violence and assassination for their efforts to support the sustainable development of their communities.
Movimiento Semilla - Guatemalan political party founded in 2019 that won the 2023 presidential elections in the face of coup plots and attempts to shut down the party.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) - the largest and most influential socialist organisation in the United States in nearly a century.
The Telangana Gig and Platforms Workers Union (TGPWU) - a worker-led union of gig and platform workers in Telangana, India, leading campaigns against delivery worker harassment and better terms of employment against major rideshare apps like Uber.
Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania (MVIWATA) - Tanzanian farmers organisation leading the fight for peasant rights’, rural development and agroecology in Tanzania.
Luchemos - a growing political organisation of socialist feminist women in Honduras.
Debt Collective - a union of debtors in the United States that grew out of the back of the Occupy movement. They build the collective power of debtors to take on creditors.
Argentine Workers’ Central Union (CTA-T) - a trade union federation of hundreds of thousands of public and private sector workers in Argentina that is an integral part of anti-imperialist, national, popular, democratic, and feminist movements in Argentina.
ACT Wazalendo Party - a political party in Tanzania formed in 2014 to revive Ujamaa, the socialist developmental philosophy of Julius Nyerere.
Todos Somos Colombia - a political party in Colombia striving for peace and sustainable development, and a full realization of social justice.
Momentum - a socialist political organisation in the United Kingdom that grew out of Jeremy Corbyn’s 2015 Labour Party leadership election and helped secure his leadership of the party.
FECORACEN - a federation of agrarian cooperatives in El Salvador that defends the rights of peasants while organizing for community self-governance.
Ukamau - an urban movement of workers in Chile that aims to build the social force necessary for the working class to achieve political power.
Welcoming the new member organisations, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, said:
“We are delighted that our International is being strengthened by these powerful movements and parties. They are all inspiring fighters for justice, challenging the powerful and standing with the people in their respective countries.
“Our shared historical moment is shrouded in the dark shadow of threats but still pregnant with opportunity. Together, we will direct our politics toward greater fire and ambition, matching the scale of our crises to the scale of the actions that we mount against them.”
