Progressive International

A year of strikes and pickets, and now a blockade by sea with the Global Sumud Flotilla: how an Italian port town is disrupting the war economy one shipment at a time. buff.ly/fciT1Xz

Albania Is Not For Sale 🇦🇱 Inside the Trump-Kushner bid for Sazan Island and the Vjosa-Narta coast Read more on the Reactionary International. buff.ly/1y22a8x

How to Steal a Hemisphere 🌍️ Fernando Cerimedo and the Heist of Latin American Democracy Read more on the Reactionary International. buff.ly/KYkV3Qz

The UAE is the most consequential external actor in Sudan’s civil war—arming and financing the RSF through a subimperial project driven by economic, political, and counterrevolutionary motives. Available in EN, ES, DE and FR. buff.ly/KiRGTTq

“Their tactics of intimidation will not work and they will not shut me up." buff.ly/zPQexF3

"The strangling of avenues towards taking action, as is on display with the Ulm5 and their treatment, should make it plain that we are back in that place in time called “history”: i.e., the moments where the systems in which we live fail to follow even their own rules." buff.ly/h2LLCOK

"Why would you want people like Alex Karp and Peter Thiel building your 21st century infrastructure?” buff.ly/7H7YuA1

After the US-backed kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, BP and Shell have moved swiftly to secure lucrative oil and gas deals in Venezuela. buff.ly/smXZDpL

"Faced with an emboldened Latin American right aided and abetted by the White House, this election will set the course for the region: Sovereignty or submission." buff.ly/7Xrz5dH

The UAE is the most consequential external actor in Sudan’s civil war—arming and financing the RSF through a subimperial project driven by economic, political, and counterrevolutionary motives. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. buff.ly/UChGEC0

British MPs who criticised Palantir in Parliament received "intimidating" letters from the US spytech firm. buff.ly/7H7YuA1

The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain, exposing a housing crisis fueled by speculation and government neglect. Available in IT, EN, FR and EN. buff.ly/XjePBpu

"We’re not asking the world to lift tons of concrete off our husbands if it can’t even give us excavators. All we want is one simple official paper that pulls our living children out of hunger." Available in EN, ES, FR and DE. buff.ly/iAzlf0q

"The task now is to build the power to resist the next abuse, change the laws that enforce them and the ownership they defend." The 32nd PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/KziUInP

Britain’s energy giants stand to make huge profits in Venezuela amid a major diplomatic rapprochement between London and Caracas, it can be revealed. Available in EN, ES, TU and AR. buff.ly/smXZDpL

"On 25 October, the largest democracy in Latin America will elect its new President with existential stakes for Brazilian democracy, continental sovereignty, and the survival of our species." Statement from the Observatory of the Progressive International. buff.ly/7Xrz5dH

The closure of Australia's YiSSA accommodation facility in Darwin threatens to push hundreds of vulnerable residents into overcrowded housing or rough sleeping while the government expands its carceral infrastructure instead. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. buff.ly/3evC3bl

The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain, exposing a housing crisis fueled by speculation and government neglect. Available in EN, FR, DE and PT-BR. buff.ly/XjePBpu

The women are trapped between a patriarchal paperwork-dependent system that treats their missing husbands as still alive and a reality of total loss, leaving them unable to feed, protect, or secure their children. Available in EN, ES, RU and HI. buff.ly/iAzlf0q

"On the Indian subcontinent, 6,000 kilometres away, the capital city of Delhi is under siege by its own government." The 32nd PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/KziUInP

After the US-backed kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, BP and Shell have moved swiftly to secure lucrative oil and gas deals in Venezuela. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. buff.ly/y5w8pFH

REVEALED 🇦🇱 The Prime Minister Kingpin of Albania’s Shadowy Real Estate Empire. Read The Edi Rama Files — compiled from explosive new court documents — online now: ediramafiles.org

Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale, writes Ali Kadri. buff.ly/tGiPY5N

A wave of protests erupted across Spain after riot police violently evicted Mari Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman who had lived in her Madrid flat for 70 years under a long-standing tenancy agreement and had never failed to pay rent. Available in EN, ES, TU and BE. buff.ly/XjePBpu

In Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody rights amid genocide. Available in EN, ES, FR and DE. buff.ly/iAzlf0q

"The protests have brought down an Indian minister, forced France to promise thousands of additional teachers, removed the fences at Zvërnec and helped precipitate a general election in Spain." The 32nd PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/KziUInP

Behind BAPS 🌐 The hidden architecture of a temple empire Read more on the Reactionary International. reactionary.international/cases/behind...

The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain, exposing a housing crisis fueled by speculation and government neglect. Available in EN, ES, FR and IT. buff.ly/XjePBpu

The closure of Australia's YiSSA accommodation facility in Darwin threatens to push hundreds of vulnerable residents into overcrowded housing or rough sleeping while the government expands its carceral infrastructure instead. Available in EN, DE, FR and PT-BR. buff.ly/3evC3bl

In Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody rights amid genocide. Available in EN, ES, HI and RU. buff.ly/Xx5cjiu

"Across the Pyrenees, a protest that began at a secondary school in a Paris suburb has become a national uprising." The 32nd Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/KziUInP

Albania Is Not For Sale 🇦🇱 Inside the Trump-Kushner bid for Sazan Island and the Vjosa-Narta coast Read more on the Reactionary International. buff.ly/66w2Hm7

The world can't afford to lose Brazil, because the country has the rare combination of conditions needed to help build a democratic response to global digital transformation. Available in EN and PT-BR. buff.ly/z7rn2WU

"The NT has a population of about 260,000 people, about 159,000 of whom live in Greater Darwin. At the 2021 Census, the NT had a total of 13,104 people experiencing homelessness at a rate of 564 per 10,000 people." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. buff.ly/3evC3bl

The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain, exposing a housing crisis fueled by speculation and government neglect. Available in EN, ES, TU and BE. buff.ly/XjePBpu

"The task now is to build the power to resist the next abuse, change the laws that enforce them and the ownership they defend." The 32nd Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/KziUInP

Behind BAPS 🌐 The hidden architecture of a temple empire Read more on the Reactionary International. buff.ly/Ghs1KJI

"Digital transformation is global. How it gets organized, though, is an institutional and social choice. Whoever controls the data understands the present." Available in EN and PT-BR. buff.ly/SyhHAe1

"The Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls, launched in 2025 and presented as a clean-up of bad data, has become a purge of voters unwanted by the BJP." buff.ly/jyGsWVV

"The 5 per cent target signed at NATO’s Hague Summit is being paid for in pensions frozen in Bucharest, disability benefits slashed in London, and unemployment support cut off in Brussels." The 31st PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/hvUoTOX

"Are we approaching system collapse, or living through it? It is impossible to know, but it is certainly the case that the settler-colonial provision of housing and the response to homelessness have never been adequate to need in the NT." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. buff.ly/3evC3bl

"A society built around free time is possible to imagine. Productivity gains could be converted into time for care work, education, culture, science, community and creativity, and civic participation."

"On 11 September, students from various universities in Bogotá took to the streets under a range of slogans, including the defence of public and secular education." Available in EN, ES, AR and IT. buff.ly/hCiC9lQ

On 2 October, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, protesters took to the streets of Delhi and Mumbai in non-violent disobedience — and were met with paramilitary cordons and anti-riot vehicles." buff.ly/jyGsWVV

"The flotillas seek to break the blockades denying people food, medicine and fuel. The dockworkers on 30 October seek to stop the weapons that enforce them." The 31st PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/hvUoTOX

The closure of Australia's YiSSA accommodation facility in Darwin threatens to push hundreds of vulnerable residents into overcrowded housing or rough sleeping while the government expands its carceral infrastructure instead. Available in EN, ES, AR and HI. buff.ly/3evC3bl

On 30 October 2026, dockworkers across 40 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated action against militarization and war. Support them today. buff.ly/auP4D1U

"BAPS yields significant political support in both its country of origin (India) and the countries it is trying to spread in (particularly the US)." buff.ly/Ghs1KJI

The world can't afford to lose Brazil, because the country has the rare combination of conditions needed to help build a democratic response to global digital transformation. Available in EN and PT-BR. buff.ly/SyhHAe1

Colombian trade unions, Indigenous organizations, students, and social movements are mobilizing against the new government of Abelardo de la Espriella in October and November over security, peace, economic, and social policy concerns. Available in EN, ES, FR and AR. buff.ly/hCiC9lQ