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The largest electoral scandal in Latin America is cresting over the continent. Yet three weeks after the capture of Fernando Cerimedo, the massive operation around him has gone almost entirely unreported. Our new investigation: How to Steal a Hemisphere. reactionary.international/investigations/h...

“We took over Venezuela,” Donald Trump said last week, “and we essentially took over Iran.” But Washington’s own military losses tell another story. The war on Iran continues and with it the danger that today’s wars become the springboards to the next. The 27th @ProgIntl Brief…

“The Cold War became a hot war in the Third World.” Paris Yeros turns the conventional history of the Cold War upside down: away from a supposedly bloodless contest between superpowers and towards the wars waged against national liberation across Asia, Africa and Latin America.…

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The PLO built relations with the ANC and SWAPO, with movements in Vietnam, Ireland and across Latin America. Palestine was understood as one front in a common struggle against colonialism and imperialism. How that internationalism was built and why it matters today: progressive.international/blueprint/62938e...

More than 7,000 containers bound for Havana are stranded across the Caribbean after shipping companies suspended operations under the threat of US sanctions. After blocking Cuba’s fuel, Washington is turning to its food supply. Available to read in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, AR…

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On 30 August, US missiles struck Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, ending a brief lull in Washington’s war on Iran. Days later, US bombs hit targets across the country — including a wedding ceremony in southern Iran. The 27th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-09-07-...

“How can we make sense of so much avoidable death on the Mediterranean coast of the ‘civilized’ continent?” Read more on the Reactionary International. reactionary.international/cases/first-they...

“Washington’s strategy for the hemisphere has willing recruits in Latin America’s elites.” The 25th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-21-...

“To understand why the revolution starts from the peripheries and why anti-imperialism is the principal contradiction, we must first understand the structure of imperialism and the relationship between capitalism and imperialism.” progressive.international/blueprint/523d77...

“The paradox of the Global South is that the historical task of the bourgeoisie in Europe — building national industries, developing national economies, defending bourgeois liberties — cannot be fulfilled by the bourgeoisie in the periphery.” progressive.international/blueprint/27275d...

In Gaza, teenage boys work dangerous, backbreaking rubble-clearing jobs for meager wages to support their families and reclaim what remains of their homes. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-27-...

"Working-class forces in the core have not been able to meet the people of Gaza where Che said we needed to meet the people of Vietnam. The genocide proceeds because the costs against it are not sufficiently high." Read more from Bikrum Gill online now. progressive.international/blueprint/523d77...

"Medics for the People has grown in the specific context of an insurance-based health care system where it’s possible to set up political clinics funded by state resources." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

“Campaigns against US wars and the US military presence in the UK are currently growing rapidly in scale." Available in EN, ES, BE and RU. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-20-...

"Delegates will debate how countries can retain economic sovereignty when access to the US market can be withdrawn as punishment." The 25th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-21-...

"The task of international solidarity is to identify where the revolutionary subject can be found and how struggle together with that subject." Read 'The Epistemological Shift — Marxism Moves East and South' by Sarah Raymundo and Ammar Ali Jan online now. progressive.international/blueprint/27275d...

First They Came For the Migrants 🌐 How Europe’s expanding border machinery unites reactionaries and reproduces colonialism. Read more on the Reactionary International. reactionary.international/cases/first-they...

"Without land in their own names, women remain “invisible farmers”, ineligible for many government subsidies, formal bank loans or digital insurance products." Available in EN, ES, AR and PT-BR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-18-...

"Colombians may face a return to some of the darkest times in the country’s history, given de la Espriella’s disdain for human rights and democratic institutions." Available in EN, ES, PR-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-07-08-...

“No other doctor, no other health care center in Belgium does that. That’s only us.” Available in DE, EN, ES and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

"The US air force sent so many combat flights from Fairford that its supply of bombs was running low, according to evidence gathered by Declassified and Bloomberg." Available in EN, AR, ES and FR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-20-...

"Two centuries after Monroe and Bolívar, the rival projects are once again unusually explicit." The 25th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-21-...

“I think the government and agriculture programmes have not come to the understanding that men are no longer the primary farmers of this country." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-18-...

"The Donroe Doctrine has materialized in the shape of open support for right-wing candidates throughout the region and threats of brute force to impose Trump’s will." Available in EN, PT-BR, AR and EN. progressive.international/wire/2026-07-08-...

"Politics is medicine on a grand scale. That is why Medics for the People is associated with the Workers’ Party of Belgium, the political party that is fighting for a different system.” Available in EN, IT, AR and DE. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

“The UK acts as a supply depot for US military forces engaged in reckless and illegal military adventures which destabilise not just the Middle East but the whole world." Available in AR, BE, DE and EN. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-20-...

"More than 150 parliamentarians, ministers, presidents and political leaders from 15 countries and territories across the Americas will gather in Montevideo for the third Panamerican Congress." The 25th PI Briefing is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-21-...

"Without land in their own names, women remain “invisible farmers”, ineligible for many government subsidies, formal bank loans or digital insurance products." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-18-...

"Over the course of June, Colombia witnessed the full effect of the Donroe doctrine on the country’s electoral process." Available in EN, ES, FR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-07-08-...

Every doctor has a stethoscope; Medics for the People talk about having two. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and FR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

A US military container ship secretly docked in Wales to restock bombs at RAF Fairford, enabling Trump’s renewed airstrikes on Iran from UK soil. Available in RU, AR, BE and EN. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-20-...

"Montevideo offers another principle: Solidarity between peoples. Sovereignty among nations." The 25th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-21-...

"As Modi builds alliances around the world, the cockroaches of India are not alone." The 24th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-17-...

"As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up." Available EN and ES. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-18-...

"De la Espriella’s rhetoric was aggressively provocative: he promised to disembowel the left and openly celebrated the paramilitary groups that killed nearly one hundred thousand people in the country’s armed conflict." Available in EN, ES, FR, AR and IT. progressive.international/wire/2026-07-08-...

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care as a basis for organising working-class communities. Available in ES, EN, RU and DE. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

A US military container ship secretly docked in Wales to restock bombs at RAF Fairford, enabling Trump’s renewed airstrikes on Iran from UK soil. Available in EN, ES, FR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-20-...

"We have no interest in politicians who come with speeches and flowers and say nothing about the oppression we live today and nothing about our leaders who have given their lives in the struggle against this oppression." progressive.international/wire/2026-08-14-...

"Eighty years ago, Nehru saluted "a new star... the star of freedom in the East." This month, in the streets of Delhi, it flickered back into view." The 24th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-17-...

✊🏿 Today we remember Lindokuhle Mnguni, a leader of @ProgIntl member Abahlali baseMjondolo, who was assassinated in Durban on 20 August 2022. We honour his struggle for land, dignity and freedom.

As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-18-...

"The Donroe Doctrine has materialized in the shape of open support for right-wing candidates throughout the region and threats of brute force to impose Trump’s will." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR. progressive.international/wire/2026-07-08-...

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care as a basis for organising working-class communities. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, AR and RU. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-19-...

"Mamdani’s public groceries plan could be a model and inspiration for other cities to run with." Available in EN, ES, AR, RU and IT. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-12-...

"Poor women are not asking to be celebrated. We are demanding to be safe, to be housed, to be heard, to be alive. Until that happens, August cannot be a month of celebration. It must be a month of struggle." progressive.international/wire/2026-08-14-...

"Eighty years ago, Nehru saluted "a new star... the star of freedom in the East." This month, in the streets of Delhi, it flickered back into view. Our task is to keep it burning." The 24th @ProgIntl Briefing of 2026 is online now. progressive.international/wire/2026-08-17-...