On 28 February – 13 March 2026, the Progressive International deployed a Peace Brigade to Venezuela to stand in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and witness its communal process firsthand.
The Brigade observed the country’s sixth National Popular Consultation on 8 March — a direct-democracy exercise in which over 36,000 development projects proposed by communal councils were put to a popular vote across 10,000 precincts.
Sean Conner: “Venezuela represents a change in the tactics of war with immeasurable consequences”
02.02.26- Santiago, Chile – Pablo Ruiz Espinoza in Pressenza International
The attack on Venezuela by the United States and a series of threats, the application of sanctions and punishments, through blockades or the raising of tariffs, against Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Iran, Canada, Greenland, among others, represent a clear threat to International Law, returning to the law of the strongest.
On the other hand, militarization continues in Europe, and four years will have passed since the start of the war in Ukraine, where efforts continue to perpetuate this conflict by sending more weapons and militarizing Europe itself.
On these topics, the following is an interview with Sean Conner, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (IPB). Conner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Intercultural and Critical Communication Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Conflict Management.
Read more here:
https://ipb.org/sean-conner-venezuela-represents-a-change-in-the-tactics-of-war-with-immeasurable-consequences/#more-80680
I Joined the Nuestra América Aid
Convoy to Show Cuba It’s Not Alone
Jeremy Corbyn describes how the intensified US blockade is causing blackouts, hospital shortages, and everyday suffering in Cuba, and why he joined an international aid convoy to break the siege.
After the detention of Venezuela’s president, the US banned Venezuelan oil from reaching Cuba, seized shipments, and imposed tariffs on any country that supplies Cuba with fuel. Corbyn traveled to Cuba as part of an international Progressive International convoy delivering humanitarian aid, including medical supplies to a cancer hospital where staff struggle under shortages. In this article, he calls on European governments to defy the US by sending their own oil tankers, and that the blockade is meant to starve Cubans into submission.
Driving into Havana, most of the city was in darkness. For the second time in a week, more than 10 million people across Cuba were left without power during a national blackout. We were told that in some places, people were going 14 hours without electricity.
This is the human reality of a criminal and inhumane blockade, imposed on Cuba by the United States. Cuba has been under a US embargo for over 60 years – an embargo that doesn’t just prevent bilateral trade between these two countries, but tries to isolate Cuba from the rest of the world.