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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 6h

"The Government of Ecuador must end the repression, guarantee the safe return of the disappeared, release those arbitrarily detained, and open a genuine process of dialogue with Indigenous peoples, workers, and affected communities."

Ecuador is under attack

Progressive International Observatory statement on the surge in state violence in Ecuador.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 11h

"The rich did not become rich because they were whiter than us, or smarter than us. No, it was because they destroyed us under colonialism.”

— Meenakshi Raman 🇲🇾

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 11h

“The Global South is making its voice heard: we need to make that happen all over the world, including the Global North. They need to hear our reality.”

Aude Darnal 🇲🇶 on the essential case for cross-border solidarity, from West Africa to the Lithium Triangle.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 11h

“They saw our islands as laboratories. We know what it means to be betrayed by the UN, by the multilateral system.”

Maureen Penjueli 🇫🇯 describes the French and US governments' detonation of hundreds of nuclear weapons across the Pacific.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 12h

"Seeds are a source of life. Farmers must have the right to freely use and exchange seeds, but four corporations control 60% of the world’s seed sales."

— Nurfitri Amir Muhammad 🇲🇾

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 12h

“Europe is indefensible.”

Yin Shao Loong 🇲🇾 recalls the words of Aimé Césaire at the Progressive International, Polity and Third World Network Kuala Lumpur Conference.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 12h

Kenya’s seed law privileges seed multinationals while weakening the country’s food system’s genetic diversity and marginalising the very people who feed the country. Availalbe in EN, ES, AR, IT, FR and PT-BR.

Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s Seed Law Undermines Farmers’ Resilience

Kenya’s seed law privileges seed multinationals while weakening the country’s food system’s genetic diversity and marginalising the very people who feed the country.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 15h

"We need to challenge what underdevelopment is – if you look at colonial history, you see that it’s a project of deliberate dedevelopment."

— Farwa Sial 🇵🇰

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 15h

"In 2024, 20 of 48 African countries paid more in debt service than on health and education combined."

— Demba Moussa Dembele 🇸🇳 addresses the Progressive International, Third World Network and Polity Kuala Lumpur Conference.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 15h

"The post-war multilateral system is a hegemonic system and has a singular power at the heart of that system."

— Dr. Richard Kozul-Wright 🇬🇧

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 16h

"Ecuador is under attack. In recent weeks, President Daniel Noboa has escalated the neoliberal assault on the country’s working people."

🇪🇨 Statement from the Progressive International Observatory on the surge in state violence in Ecuador.

Ecuador is under attack

Progressive International Observatory statement on the surge in state violence in Ecuador.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 18h

LIVE FROM JOHANNESBERG 🇿🇦 Progressive International Council member Jeremy Corbyn meets with the leadership of member organisations Abahlali baseMjondolo and PUDEMO, as well as a range of South African people's movements. He was joined by Mustafa Barghouti 🇵🇸 and Ronnie Kasrils.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

A Louisiana judge has ordered activist and former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Syria or Algeria for allegedly failing to disclose information on his green card application.

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil to be deported

Immigration Judge Jamee Comans has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Syria or Algeria, in a move seen widely as retaliation for Khalil's Palestine activism.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

Annalena Baerbock — the new President of the UN General Assembly — justified attacks on civilians under the guise of “self-defense”.

✍️ Join the global movement to demand her resignation.

Baerbock, Resign From the UNGA Presidency

Only a movement millions strong can stop Baerbock's presidency at the United Nations General Assembly.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"We can’t industrialise one country at a time. We have to industrialise through collective action."

— Duma Gqubule, South African heterodox economist 🇿🇦

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"We need to build labour internationals, internationals of people as well as states."

— Nikhil Dey, Founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan 🇮🇳

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"Non-alignment is not the refusal to choose; it is an assertion of the need to choose from principle."

Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia 🇲🇾, addresses the Progressive International Kuala Lumpur Conference.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"There is a popular awakening in the North; a popular awakening for democracy, justice, and peace. It can speak in the same moral language as the awakening of the South: the language of human solidarity."

— Jeremy Corbyn MP, Progressive International Council member

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

H.E. Alvin Botes, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa 🇿🇦, quotes Ernesto "Che" Guevara as he addresses the Progressive International Kuala Lumpur Conference.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

“Countries of the North have unilaterally abandoned the trade rules they imposed on us. We are being confronted with raw, unfiltered power and outright bullying.”

— Dr. Rob Davies, Former Trade Minister of South Africa 🇿🇦

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

“We believe in a just and humane order. But without power, you are nothing.”

Addressing the Progressive International's Kuala Lumpur Conference, Raja Dato’ Nurshirwan Zainal Abidin, Director General of the National Security Council of Malaysia 🇲🇾, urges the Global South to build organisation.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"Starvation is not merely a biological condition, but a form of Israeli violence etched into the body. To witness it is only the start. Understanding it medically may foster empathy, but stopping it remains the sole humanitarian duty."

The Dissection of Starvation in Gaza

The systematic starvation of Gaza's population, engineered by Israeli policy, is a deliberate crime, methodically destroying bodies, generations, and the very fabric of life.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

Annalena Baerbock refused to enforce arrest warrants for Israeli officials implicated in crimes against humanity. Now she's President of the UN General Assembly.

✍️ Join the global movement to demand Baerbock’s resignation.

Baerbock, Resign From the UNGA Presidency

Only a movement millions strong can stop Baerbock's presidency at the United Nations General Assembly.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 2d

“The people of Palestine cannot wait — and The Hague Group will not rest until it has rallied the world to defend the international laws that protect them.”

🇵🇸 The Hague Group's Ministerial Meeting covered in today's Morning Star.

Hague Ministers Group sets out action plan to end ‘Israel's impunity’

AS ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly today, 34 states convened to co-ordinate legal and diplomatic measures aimed at halting Israel’s…

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 2d

The international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel “the tools of genocide”, Mohamad Hasan 🇲🇾 told The Hague Group's Ministerial Meeting in New York City.

🔗 Read more online.

World must deny Israel ‘tools of genocide’, says growing alliance of activist states

New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate Israel

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