On 29 September 2025, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu presented their so‑called “peace plan” for Gaza — a blueprint for the further colonization of Palestine and the co-optation of those who stand in solidarity with its people.

Announced from the heart of empire and immediately endorsed by those most invested in preserving the settler colony, the plan aims to turn a shattered Gaza into a laboratory for trusteeship, securitization, and profit — with Palestinians reduced to objects of management rather than subjects of history. The Cabinet of the Progressive International condemned the plan in a statement on 7 October.

The quick acquiescence of states revealed the plan’s true designs. It offers a path to save face and draw wind from the sails of international political opposition without abandoning the fundamental aim of the genocide: the destruction of the means of social reproduction in Palestine, and the elimination of the popular cradle from which the Palestinian national liberation movement emerged.

What does the plan propose?

First, a foreign “Board of Peace,” chaired by Trump and likely managed by Tony Blair, that deprives the Palestinian people of any sovereign political governance.

Second, an “International Stabilization Force,” entrenching military control while denying Palestinians authority over their own security.

Third, special economic zones and a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labor to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced.

The plan recalls the “investments” made across Indonesia in the late 1960s. There, a US-backed genocide exterminated at least a million people. The dead had not yet been buried when US luxury hotels began opening on their scattered bones on the beaches of Bali and elsewhere. For imperialism, genocide has always been profitable.

The timing of Trump’s proposal is no accident. It arrives amid a global escalation in action for Gaza. In September, the states of The Hague Group met in New York City to push the agenda from rhetoric to concrete legal, economic, and diplomatic measures against Israel.

In the first days of October, the Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest humanitarian convoy in history — approached Gaza. And, as Israeli occupation forces began to intercept it, states and movements around the world responded with a renewed wave of protest.

“We demand the release of the… 170 other crew members of the Global Sumud Flotilla who were cruelly intercepted by Israeli forces approaching the shores of Gaza,” said Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. “Stop the impunity of the genocidal Zionists and their accomplices."

Popular movements surged too: nationwide general strikes and port blockades across Italy, street mobilizations from Istanbul to Barcelona, Athens to Brussels, Berlin to London, Buenos Aires to Tunis — with new actions announced by the day. On Monday, a quarter of the population of Amsterdam took to the streets in protest.

Trump’s plan is designed to coopt and diffuse this movement. It offers the appearance of a “solution” while preserving and securing the architecture of domination. It trades accountability for amnesty, sovereignty for supervision, liberation for integration into imperialism’s circuits of exploitation. Even humanitarian relief is instrumentalized, conditioned on acquiescence to the scheme — starvation leveraged into consent. This is not peace. It is an ultimatum forged on the back of our generation’s Holocaust.

We must choose a different path. Around the world, the movement is already showing the way: strikes that halt the flow of arms and energy, port workers refusing genocide cargo, legal teams documenting violations for international courts, and states coordinating through The Hague Group to enforce international law — through courts, ports, and factories — until the siege is broken and Palestine is free. The task now is to escalate, not accommodate.

Today, it is clearer than ever that justice will not be won through appeals to the perpetrators or accomplices of genocide — or those who looked the other way. As the US revolutionary Assata Shakur, who passed away days ago, reminds us: “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Latest from the Movement

Flotilla Participants Released

Most or all of the remaining participants of the Flotilla have been released on 7 October, including Progressive International co-General Coordinator David Adler. Many of those released have renewed their calls for global solidarity with the people of Palestine — including the thousands of Palestinian hostages continuing to languish in Israeli concentration camps. “This is not about us… We can not take our eyes away from Gaza,” Greta Thunberg said in her first public statement after leaving detention.

RTI Mela in Beawar, Rajasthan

On 12 October, the first‑ever RTI Mela will bring together right-to-information users, activists, journalists, students, workers, farmers, and citizens from across India for a one‑day festival in Beawar, Rajasthan to celebrate 20 years of the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) and renew the collective resolve to defend it.

The gathering follows a commemorative re‑enactment at Chang Gate on 11 October at 5:00 PM — the site of the 44‑day dharna in 1996 that helped launch the movement that won the RTI Act in 2005. Amid mounting threats to transparency and democratic dissent, the Mela is both celebration and call to action.

The 12 October Mela will also inaugurate a new annual tradition anchored by a people’s RTI Museum now in development in Beawar, documenting the city’s role and the nationwide struggles that have used RTI to fight corruption, assert basic rights, and strengthen democracy.

Oil shipments to Israel via Ceyhan under scrutiny

Researchers from PI member the Palestinian Youth Movement and the No Harbour for Genocide campaign report that the tanker Nissos Tinos loaded 33,830 tonnes of crude at Turkey’s Ceyhan port on 4 October and was slated to depart on 6 October, with AIS and satellite data indicating its two previous voyages delivered crude to Israel’s Ashkelon port.

Despite Ankara’s announced restrictions, the research shows that shipments from Ceyhan to Israel continue, with tankers like Nissos Tinos and Kimolos allegedly masking destinations and switching off trackers, and with Turkish exports rerouted via third countries. This pattern clearly contradicts the pledge made at The Hague Group’s emergency meeting to prevent transit and servicing of vessels at risk of supplying Israel with military fuel and related materials.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Celebrates 20 Years of Struggle

On 4 October 2025, thousands gathered at the storied Curries Fountain Stadium in Durban to mark 20 years since the founding of Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa’s movement of shack dwellers. The gathering began with the singing of The Internationale, and speakers reflected on the movement’s history of courage and sacrifice, including many assassinations. The movement is working to build a movement of communes and a global movement of movements, and has dedicated itself to uniting the fractured left in South Africa. The guests included Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, and Progressive International Council member Raj Patel, among many others.

Progressive International Council Member Jeremy Corbyn Visit to South Africa and Namibia

Last week Progressive International Council Member Jeremy Corbyn was in South Africa and Namibia, primarily to build solidarity with Palestine. He spoke at numerous events, including several large public meetings. In South Africa, he addressed a meeting hosted by the South African Federation of Trade Unions, which brought together trade unionists and leaders from Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Congolese Solidarity Campaign, the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, and the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), the movement against the monarchy in Swaziland, among others.

In Namibia, Corbyn visited the memorial to the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, and, along with other meetings, met with the activists who exposed the shipment of explosives on the vessel MV Kathrin, destined for Israel. The Namibian government took decisive action to stop the ship from docking at the Walvis Bay port, and activists and the government worked together to ensure it would not be permitted to enter the port in Luanda, Angola.