"This is not a moment to observe. It is a moment to act." The 26th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

"Not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul." — Mao Zedong

NEW 🚨🇵🇸 The BDS Movement has joined the campaign to block Baerbock. There are just 60 days to stop Annalena Baerbock, who attacked South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel as "baseless", from becoming the next President of the UNGA. SIGN NOW ✍️

In the air, reading Ali Kadri.

It’s official: Russia's retaliatory strike was carried out with the “Oreshnik” Medium Range Ballistic Missile system and a hypersonic warhead, Vladimir Putin said. Russia is prepared to use these against countries whose weapons are used against it.

I hope people understand by now that if you do not adequately deter the genocidal Western axis with measured but firm responses to their escalating violence, they will exterminate you.

Months ago, a senior US official said that the ICC was "built for Africa and thugs like Putin". Today, it has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant — a sign, however symbolic, that international law could not survive the flagrant barbarism of the Zionist entity.

BREAKING: The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant for "crimes against humanity and war crimes".

Evidence increasingly suggests that Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles cannot be targeted by Ukraine alone, which implies that the United States and Britain have formally entered the war against Russia. If so, we are seconds away from midnight.

There is empirical evidence that the mere existence of the Soviet Union was responsible for dramatic improvements in the lives of workers across the Western world. The threat of revolution pushed capitalist states to make unprecedented concessions to working people.

ANNOUNCING 🍉 The Watermelon Index, a tool for worker-led resistance against the genocide in Palestine. Explore our database of over 400 complicit companies and the campaigns against them: http://bit.ly/3YYu0jv

The majority of Ukrainians want the fighting to end, just as Biden launches a potentially terminal escalation in the NATO proxy war against Russia. Ukraine is not defending democracy. It is lining the pockets of war profiteers on Wall Street.

We do not need to imagine what would happen if Cuba attacked the US with Russian missiles, because the mere presence of defensive Soviet missiles on Cuban soil saw the US come inches away from destroying all humanity.

For months, @progintl.bsky.social has worked with a broad coalition to map corporate complicity with the genocide. This work has already helped stop ships carrying arms to occupation forces. Now, we identify over 400 complicit companies and plan to organize workers within them to resist.

BREAKING: Kiev claims to have launched US long-range ATACMS missiles against Russia, just a day after Biden authorised their use.

What an honour to join Booker Omole and other comrades from the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya for the Party’s Second National Congress in Nairobi. Their unwavering commitment to scientific socialism and internationalism is an example to all the world’s progressive forces.

Biden is doing his utmost to spark WWIII before his term ends. Insanity.

There is a thread that runs from Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haitian Revolution to Yahya Sinwar’s Al-Aqsa Flood. My inaugural piece for Protean Magazine looks at Haiti, the cradle of internationalism: https://buff.ly/3UUXu0b

"Haiti’s internationalism prefigured the forms of solidarity that are demanded of us today." I wrote about Haiti, internationalism, and one of my favorite stories from Polish history: the time Napoleaon sent our troops to fight in Haiti, and they mutinied against him.

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇺🇸 A new investigation from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Progressive International reveals the hidden routes of military shipments from the USA to Israel through the Mediterranean Sea — setting up an international showdown against Maersk. Via Olga Rodríguez ✍️

The Uyghur genocide myth was seeded by Mike Pompeo’s State Department and lapped up by 90% of the Western left. Holding my breath for the conspiracy theories to emerge from Marco Rubio’s office.

Once again, the West in its entirety voted against a UNGA resolution — co-sponsored by 40 states — on combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling racism.

On 7 November 1917, the Russian working class sent shockwaves through the world by overthrowing the Tsar, dismantling Russia’s budding capitalism, and establishing history’s first proletarian state.

One of the great cruelties of the war in Ukraine is that if the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian casualties had US-American mothers and fathers, the war would have long become untenable for Washington. But they export the grief, just like they export attributions of responsibility. Cowards.

DPRK ICBM launches are a whole vibe.

Earlier this week, I spoke with Charles Xu from the Qiao Collective about Palestine, China, and resistance to imperialism at the gates of Asia. You can watch that discussion here: https://buff.ly/4egtxPi

One year ago — just days after the genocide began — over 60 movements from 25 countries signed the "Gaza Resolution", an unflinching condemnation of Zionist colonialism and a pledge to stand with the Palestinian people in their pursuit of liberation.

"The current multilateral order, built by US power after the Second World War when much of the world was still formally colonised, is driving humanity off the edge of a cliff." PI Briefing No. 41 is online now.

The outcome of the US election will be a reflection of the fascist rot that already seeps through the nation's every crevice and pore. You cannot turn a blind eye to imperial violence and pretend to be surprised when it shows up on your doorstep.

I spoke today with Charles Xu from the Qiao Collective about Palestine, China, and the ways in which struggles for liberation permeate one another. Out in a few days.

"Defeating Israel (America) is in the interests of most of the world's working class. If you balk at the shape of the sledgehammer hitting that wall, maybe you sort of like the wall." — Max Ajl

Colonialism and capitalism are inseparable. The instruments of the former enable the latter — clearing the land and exterminating its defenders to establish the conditions for accumulation, extraction, and ownership.

This is what it looks like when masses of people are transported to concentration and torture camps in the 21st century. Will the people behind the wheel one day claim that they were 'just drivers'?

There is a startling chasm between the G7 and BRICS. One talks about war and punishment, the other about development and mutual benefit. One seeks to aggrevate conflict, the other to end it. One wags its finger, the other extends its hand. The world order is turning a page.

German journalists are salivating at the opportunity to combine their three favourite pastimes — anti-Asian racism, Russophobia, and world war — into a single narrative thread.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek "Thank you, USA" Sikorski has been pushing his counterpart in Germany to deny Ukrainian refugees social benefits so that they return to Ukraine to fight in the proxy war. To the last Ukrainian.

"Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution." — Ghassan Kanafani

The BRICS+ states, representing the vast majority of humanity and the largest share of the global economy, have reportedly agreed the text of a resolution on Ukraine. Will the increasingly-isolated Western warlord nations listen or will they continue on their downward spiral?

On 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed. Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Mao Zedong would soon declare to the world that “the Chinese people have stood up.”

On this day 65 years ago, Władysław Gomułka, leader of the socialist Polish People's Republic, announced the "1000 Schools for the Millennium" program — an ambitious plan, hatched in the ashes of WW2, to build one school for every year of Poland's existence.

Pan-African Marxist and Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah was born on this day in 1909.

"Cuba struggles to buy the materials to build homes, but we will not see a crisis of homelessness on the island. Cuba has advanced beyond the ailments of more primitive societies. It is, after all, a project of the future — a project of socialism."

Over 600 elected officials — from Angola to Zimbabwe — demand that Cuba be taken off the list of "state sponsors of terrorism", a vicious and cruel policy that has been suffocating the island's people.

Happy 50th birthday to Żabianka, the neighbourhood in the city of Gdańsk, Poland, that I call home. Built under the socialist Polish People’s Republic, it remains a premier example of what urban planning can achieve when it puts people above profit.

Anti-colonial revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born on this day one century ago. A committed socialist and pan-Africanist, Cabral led the struggle for independence that toppled Portuguese rule in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde and inspired the fight for liberation around the globe.

Social democracy offers capitalism a veneer of decency that will always be discarded when ruling class interests come under threat. Communists have correctly analysed this at least as far back as the days of the Second International.

The five-century reign of the slave traders, plunderers, and genocidaires is facing its most significant challenge in history.

“[In] Gaza, a ceaseless assault — armed and aided by Western ‘allies’ — aims not only to annihilate the people of Palestine, but also to show the world the limitless violence that a New Cold War may unleash on all those who dare to challenge its contours.”

“Feeding the hungry, the American way.” “Love of peace, the Washington way.” Soviet posters were on point.