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"We denounce the arrest of Walden Bello, Council member of the @ProgIntl, and call for the spurious charges against him to be dropped immediately."
Statement from @jeremycorbyn, @avilarenata, @NnimmoB, @Nanjala1 and other members of the PI Council. https://progressive.international/wire/2022-08-09-we-stand-with-walden-bello-/en/

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“I didn’t have the nerve to tell her that some parents in Gaza want all their children around them when another war inevitably breaks out. The full package offer is preferable in such conditions — either they live together, or they die together.” https://progressive.international/wire/2022-08-08-wake-me-up-if-i-survive-this-war/en/

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Weekly Stammtisch

Dear Comrades,Another week has broken. We touched upon many different topics last Thursday and had fruitful discussions. Amongst other things important things we talked about: a collaborative landscape of leftist parties and organizations, the upcoming winter hardship and which type of...

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"Greeks & other southern Europeans could now be feeling Schadenfreude as🇩🇪faces the collapse of its economic model in the face of the🇺🇦war and the new cold war with🇨🇳.But with a democratic🇪🇺in the balance,this is no time to gloat." —@yanisvaroufakis https://metacpc.org/en/sympathyforgermany/

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We have translated over 300 articles into five languages with a fraction of the budget of other international organisations. That is why we are now calling on your support. Help us build our voice. Support translations at the Progressive International: http://bit.ly/3obf1k1

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Language is power. Internationalism demands that we communicate with each other — across borders, across struggles, across generations, across platforms, across languages. Help support translations at @progintl: http://bit.ly/3obf1k1

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Language is power. Internationalism demands that we communicate with each other — across borders, across struggles, across generations, across platforms, across languages. Help support translations at @progintl: https://progressive.international/wire/2022-07-18-language-is-power-help-build-translations-at-the-progressive-international/en

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Language is power. Internationalism demands that we communicate with each other — across borders, across struggles, across generations, across platforms, across languages. Help support translations at @progintl: https://bit.ly/3obf1k1

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On the same day that a groundbreaking report revealed their involvement in human rights violations in the Mediterranean, the EU’s border agency announces another “partnership” with a country to effectively outsource the detention of desperate people. https://twitter.com/frontex/status/1547950384089403393

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Greece and EU performed thousands of illegal migrant pushbacks in the Mediterranean

Both the EU and Greece deny pushing back asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea. But independent research group Forensic Architecture/Forensis has released a report that says otherwise.
It details 1018 pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Med, between March 2020 and March 2022 by the Greek Coast...

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BREAKING
The EU & Greece deny pushing back asylum seekers in the Med. But independent research group @ForensicArchi has released a report that says otherwise. 1018 pushbacks 27,464 people 26 people thrown into the sea by Greek Coast Guard, 2 handcuffed
http://aegean.forensic-architecture.org

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Greece and EU performed thousands of illegal migrant pushbacks in the Mediterranean

Both the EU and Greece deny pushing back asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea. But independent research group Forensic Architecture/Forensis has released a report that says otherwise.
It details 1018 pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Med, between March 2020 and March 2022 by the Greek Coast...

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Following EU practices and other eco-myths

On environmental policies, the EU must mediate this process through citizens' assemblies and activists, not careerists and lobbyists

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“NATO’s expansion has also provided a blanket of impunity for member-state Turkey. With generous political and material support from the United States and other NATO countries… Turkey is launching new military offensives at its borders.” https://progressive.international/wire/2022-06-30-we-seek-lasting-peace-while-nato-prepares-for-perpetual-war-/en

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This weekend in London, DiEM25 co-founder and @mera25_gr leader @yanisvaroufakis will join @jeremycorbyn, @johnmcdonnellMP, @Lowkey0nline and many others for #Marxism2022.
Check out the full program and get your ticket!
https://socialistworker.co.uk/marxismfestival/

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The arrest of Indian human rights activist @TeestaSetalvad is yet another attempt to suppress the truth about the 2002 Gujarat pogrom that resulted in the death of thousands — the large majority of whom were Muslim – under the then chief minister Narendra Modi.

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With or without Boris Johnson, real political change in the UK is far away

Whether he staggers pointlessly on for another year, or a few weeks, the prospect of any replacement grasping the urgencies looks dim at best

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"It’s difficult in this day and age to write an essay about freedom when the word has been co-opted by so many people who use a bastardised definition of the word to advance the destruction of others." — PI Council member @Nanjala1 for the Blueprint. https://progressive.international/blueprint/5d810ed5-8dd9-4b16-9e22-9095707fdcaa-desire/en

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The so-called fight between ‘liberals’ & ‘right-wing populists’ is a lie. No matter who “wins”, a system of undemocratic decision-making will be maintained.
But there's another path. One that “official Europe” resists with every part of its mindset: a democratic revolution!

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EU allows profits from illegally occupied lands | interview with Senator Frances Black & Omar Shakir

Officially, the EU opposes annexation and considers illegal settlements in occupied territories an obstacle to international peace and stability.
However, as with many other cases, what the EU states is far from its practices. Trade is still allowed between the European Single Market and these ...

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