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In late June, a leaked draft resolution revealed that the Board of Peace – whose executive board includes World Bank president, Ajay Banga – is seeking legal immunity for its members, forces and contractors. This kind of sovereign immunity is straight out of the World Bank’s playbook, which cannot be sued in its countries of operation, and consistently tries to resist accountability. The leaked draft also included a proposal to seize public property in Gaza without offering any compensation, again building on the World Bank’s long legacy of landgrabbing across the Global South.

As shifts in global power reshape the international order, movements are confronting new forms of militarization, extraction, and corporate power. The first in a series emerging from ESCR-Net’s Political Education Learning Series, Power, Repression, and Collective Struggle in a Changing World System, this article draws on collective reflections to explore what these transformations mean for struggles for economic, social, cultural, and environmental justice across regions.

Following the violent eviction carried out on 6 July 2026, ESCR-Net denounces the excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, and criminalization of the Garífuna community of San Juan, and calls on the Honduran State to comply with its international human rights obligations.