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PI Briefing | No. 26 | Fortress Europe

Progressive International1 September 2026

From Mauritania to Libya, Europe is externalizing its border: funding detention, surveillance and armed violence against people on the move — giving even greater ground to the extreme right back at home. In the Progressive International’s twenty-sixth Briefing of 2026, we draw on new Reactionary International research to map Fortress Europe: a border regime stretching […]

Massive flood in Nepal is a warning of climate change’s consequences

Martin Empson31 August 2026

Martin Empson explains how changing water levels threaten life as we know it The horrific flood on the border of Nepal has killed hundreds—probably thousands—of people. While we do not yet know the exact cause, it seems likely a glacier collapse was responsible. New Scientist magazine reported that melting snow had weakened a massive glacier […]

From xenophobia to authoritarian politics

Koketso Moeti31 August 2026

This year marks 50 years since the 1976 youth uprising, a turning point in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. While triggered by the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools, it would result in the creation of a new social force that birthed new movements of resistance and emancipatory politics. The anniversary serves as […]

Whatever Happened to the ‘Enough Is Enough’ Campaign?

Joe Todd27 August 2026

‘The biggest political fumble of my life.’ On Wednesday 7 September 2022, Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket was packed out. Hundreds of people had queued around the block for the city’s biggest leftwing rally in years. Mark Thomas, a local homelessness worker, remembered being excited. “It was absolutely massive… It was something new,” he told Novara Media. […]

Adam Habib and the Politics of Opportunism

Ziyad Motala21 August 2026

There is something almost touching about Adam Habib’s faith in Helen Zille. https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-18-only-zille-can-save-joburg-ex-wits-vc-habib-says-da-mayoral-candidate-perfect-for-the-job/ Johannesburg, he tells us, can apparently be rescued by one woman. If Zille does not secure an overall majority, he warns, not merely Johannesburg but “the city and South Africa are doomed.” For the job of mayor, he pronounces her “perfect.” Perfect […]

FROM HUMANITARIANISM TO ORGANISED SOLIDARITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AFROPHOBIA

Keep Left20 August 2026

Claire Ceruti and Luke Sinwell Families sleep outside embassies and consulates wrapped in blankets against the winter cold. Beside them are plastic bags, suitcases and the few possessions they managed to carry from homes they may never return to. They are commonly described as people “returning home” or being “repatriated”. But these phrases conceal a […]

Is Afrophobia a simplistic framing?

Socialist Voice Newsletter of the Marxist Group of Namibia18 August 2026

A left-wing view does not say xenophobia in South Africa is “naturally” Africanist or that “black” people are inherently united. It says xenophobia is a product of racial capitalism, township political economy, state rhetoric, and social fragmentation — and its racialised pattern of targets reflects material conditions, not essential identities. The term “Afrophobia” is analytically […]

The Left’s Billionaire Problem

Vashna Jagarnath7 August 2026

Money, democratic control and the struggle over where power resides The growing political power of billionaires presents the left with a contradiction that it has not adequately confronted. The problem is not only that billionaires fund the right, purchase media platforms or use private wealth to influence governments. Very wealthy individuals and foundations are also […]

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Arundhati Roy23 July 2026

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding […]

‘The amabutho are back’: Abahlali warns of rising xenophobic violence

Thapelo Mohapi25 June 2026

I grew up in Bhambayi in Inanda, to the north of Durban. In 1993 more than two hundred people were killed in political violence between Inkatha and the ANC. In 1990, when I was eight, two friends of my father who were visiting from Lesotho were murdered. My brothers and I saw the bodies. In […]

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