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In the Progressive International's twenty-second Briefing of 2026, we look at the New McCarthyism as both a farcical and frightening strategy to repression movements for liberation within the United States and across the world.
Writer Arundhati Roy chronicles the rise of the Cockroach Janta Party, a spontaneous youth-led movement sparked by Chief Justice Surya Kant's contemptuous cockroach remark against unemployed students and fueled by recurring exam paper leaks. Centered on Abhijeet Dipke's Instagram call and Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike, the movement culminates in a massive July 20 march on Parliament, met with police brutality, tear gas, and state censorship. Beyond demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation, the protest lays bare India's deepening authoritarianism—judicial complicity, electoral manipulation, religious polarization, and the erosion of citizenship under CAA-NRC-like measures—while questioning whether this fragile, unaffiliated uprising can outlast state retaliation or translate into lasting political change.
French MEP Rima Hassan faced court on July 7 after two years of judicial harassment by pro-Israel groups, the Macron government, and the far right, over a deleted tweet on Palestinian self-defense, charged under apologia for terrorism laws. Her April detention involved illegal drug leaks later disproven, covert surveillance, and Islamophobic questioning, part of a broader campaign of lawfare, media smears, and threats to strip her nationality.
Imperialism is the primary contradiction of our era, and that its resolution requires conscious, organized international unity between workers of the Global South and North. This text calls for reclaiming the “Bandung Spirit” and the lessons of 1927 to build a practical program of solidarity around economic sovereignty, public goods, just transitions, and working-class power—insisting that the coming century must be shaped not by imperial catastrophe, but by collective liberation.
The Progressive International Observatory is alarmed by escalating restrictions on democratic participation in Ecuador ahead of the country’s local elections on 29 November 2026.
In the Progressive International's twenty-first Briefing of 2026, we look at a landmark new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective.
In the Progressive International's twentieth Briefing of 2026, we look at NATO’s latest Summit, which reflected growing rifts within the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Since October 2023, the Palestinian Authority has reduced teacher work hours and imposed a flat 2,000-shekel monthly salary in response to Israel's systematic withholding of customs revenues—a policy Israeli officials have explicitly linked to collapsing the PA and annexing the West Bank. This financial strangulation compounds a pre-existing crisis: public school teachers have endured a decade of broken promises, salary stagnation, and retaliatory transfers following strikes in 2016, 2022, and 2023. The reduced school week has eroded pedagogical quality, undermining critical thinking and student engagement while forcing teachers into debt and secondary labor.
Today, NATO’s Member States gather in the Turkish capital to craft plans for arming up and expanding out.
The Canary, an independent left-wing UK media platform, has been unable to pay employees or contractors after Lloyds Bank blocked access to a substantial portion of its funds and refused to provide a reason. The outlet alleges “debanking” and notes parallels with similar actions against other politically engaged individuals and groups, suggesting its anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine stance may be a factor. Despite repeated inquiries, Lloyds has offered no clarification, leaving staff in financial distress.
