[European insights – Who votes for the left, and why?]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 12, 2023
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April 12, 2023
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_ European insights – Who votes for the left, and why? _
The iconic image of Kandaka Alaa Salah during the revolutionary
protests on April 8, 2019, in Khartoum. Credit, Lana H. Haroun
* Europe: Electoral Updates
* New Pink Tide Goes Green
* Socialist Party of Zambia Attacked
* Indigenous Land Defenders Confront Royal Bank of Canada
* Celebrating Women in Sudan’s History
* 1995 to 2023: France’s Giant Pension Protests
* LGBTQ+ Rights in Africa
* Union Action for Climate Justice in Germany
* Class War: Workers Face Repression
* Scotland: An Underground Railroad for Migrants
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EUROPE: ELECTORAL UPDATES
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EDOSSIER: WHO VOTES FOR THE LEFT AND WHY?
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_Angelina Giannopoulou_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
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PANEL: DEMOCRACY IN UK LABOUR PARTY
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SPANISH LEFT IN SEARCH OF REGROUPMENT
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_ Barney Jopson_ / Financial Times (London)
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NEW PINK TIDE GOES GREEN
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_John Feffer_ / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)
The Latin American left has long favored more mining and drilling to
boost exports, trade, and government revenues. Progressivism in Latin
America, as in many other parts of the world, has long been
inextricably linked to raw material extraction designed to distribute
more wealth to the poor, while closing the gap with the richer
North. Now, Colombia is trying something different.
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Socialist Party of Zambia Attacked
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_Tanupriya Singh_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
On Saturday, April 8, members of the Socialist Party of Zambia were
targets of a violent attack by alleged cadres of the ruling United
Party for National Development in the district of Serenje, Central
Province. Shortly after, Zambian police arrested SP president Dr. Fred
M’membe, even as the attackers remained at large. Zambia’s Green
Party strongly condemned the attacks and arrest of M’membe.
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Indigenous Land Defenders Confront Royal Bank of Canada
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Stand.earth (Vancouver)
RBC proved it has no interest in reconciliation, turning away the
Indigenous delegation who arrived at the bank’s Annual General
Meeting in Saskatoon as hundreds of Indigenous water protectors and
allies rallied outside. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal
GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Wet’suwet’en Hereditary
leadership, the rightful titleholders of the land.
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CELEBRATING WOMEN IN SUDAN
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HISTORY
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_Camille Straatman_ / Dabanga (Amsterdam)
Kandaka refers to the Nubian Queens of Sudan’s ancient Kingdom of
Kush, centred in the Nile valley of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
Symbolising strong, fighting women, the term was applied to the women
who played an important role in the revolution that overthrew the
regime of dictator Omar Al Bashir.
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1995 TO 2023: FRANCE
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PENSION PROTESTS
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_Annie Ernaux_ / Le Monde diplomatique (Paris)
In November ’95, unlike in May ’68, the entire population
supported the strike. Private-sector workers, who were not striking,
would say to public-sector workers, ‘You are striking for us, on our
behalf.’ We were suddenly coming out of the tunnel of the years
after 1983, and the much-touted end of politics. Workers in rail,
electricity and the postal system defied the world order of
neoliberalism.
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LGBTQ+ RIGHTS IN AFRICA
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_Efemia Chela_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)
The Trans and Queer Fund (TQF) is a hopeful example of grassroots
organising grounded in socialist and abolitionist values in Nairobi,
Kenya. TQF set up a mutual aid system to provide relief funds for
LGBTQ+ people whose livelihoods disappeared due to mandated
lockdowns.
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UNION ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN GERMANY
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_Franziska Heinisch and Julia Kaiser_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
During the global climate strike on 3 March, climate activists and
public transport workers in Germany went on strike together in around
30 cities. This could be the first step toward ecological class
struggles – and their coordination on an international scale.
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CLASS WAR: WORKERS FACE REPRESSION
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* TUNISIA
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_Carolyn Butler_ / Solidarity Center (Washington DC)
* CHINA
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_Ralf Ruckus_ / Jacobin (New York)
* UKRAINE
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_Georgii Sandul_ / International Politics and Society (Berlin)
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SCOTLAND: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FOR MIGRANTS
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_Agatha Scaggiante_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
A movement led by people with lived experience of the U.K. immigration
system has sprung up to fight for more humane treatment and housing
for refugees.
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