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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 17, 2023  
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May 17, 2023
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Hiroshima protest against G7 summit, May 14, 2023. Credit, Twitter/
@Whistle020

 

* Unions and LGBTQ+ Rights
* BRICS, ANC and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity
* Thailand Voters Rebuke Military Rulers
* UK Local Elections
* Attack on Brazil’s Landles
* India: Breakthrough Vote Brings Down Modi Stronghold
* Feminists in Kazakhstan
* Hiroshima Demands Nuke Ban
* Putin and Victory Day

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UNIONS AND LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
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_Marina Watson Peláez_ / Equal Times (Brussels)

Trade unions – which generally consider solidarity and the respect
of the human rights of all people as fundamental principles – have a
crucial role to play in challenging discriminatory laws, supporting
the LGBTQI+ community at work and ensuring that we live in a more
inclusive and respectful world.

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BRICS, ANC AND ANTI-IMPERIALIST SOLIDARITY
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_William Shoki_ / Alameda Institute (London)

Although BRICS still projects an image of a collective of rising
superpowers, it is far from it. China is the dominant partner, with
India the only other to exhibit strong economic growth. The
widespread enthusiasm for the currency as a potentially game-changing
move – which, to be sure, will certainly give wiggle room to the
economies of the South – reflects the truncated horizon of the
political moment.

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THAILAND VOTERS REBUKE MILITARY RULERS
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_Zaheena Rasheed and Sawitree Wongketjai_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

Thailand’s reformist opposition has won the most seats and the
largest share of the popular vote in a general election after voters
roundly rejected the military-backed parties that have ruled the
Southeast Asian country for nearly a decade. The progressive Move
Forward Party and the populist Pheu Thai Party are projected to win
about 286 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives.

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UK LOCAL ELECTIONS
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_Thomas G Clark_ / Jewish Voice for Labour (London)

The Greens have demonstrated that it’s possible to take on the
Tories in their own backyard and win, not by imitating them, but by
offering a genuine alternative. Labour did appallingly against
candidates it had recently purged, particularly in Liverpool and
Leicester but also elsewhere – something the mainstream media
conveniently fail to report.

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ATTACK ON BRAZIL’S LANDLESS
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Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest
social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack
from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the
mass media. The movement has been subject to slanderous media
campaigns, vitriolic diatribes by right-wing politicians, and the
victim of criminalization and legal processes. 

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INDIA: BREAKTHROUGH VOTE BRINGS DOWN MODI STRONGHOLD
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_Nagesh Prabhu_ / The Hindu (Mumbai)

In the southwestern state of Karnataka, the Congress party improved
its tally from the 80 seats it won in 2018, powering to 135 seats on
the back of a robust unified campaign promising free rice, power and
income support, and building a case against far right President
Modi’s BJP based on local issues of corruption and governance.

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FEMINISTS IN
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_Feminist Anti-War Resistance and Zhanar Sekerbayeva_ / Links
(Sydney)

Feminist Anti-War Resistance spoke with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a
co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative. This
year, Zhanar ran for election to Maslikhat (a regional parliament in
Kazakhstan) and spoke openly with a feminist agenda. Zhanar is a
lesbian and has faced several waves of harassment during the campaign
for defending the rights of the queer community.

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HIROSHIMA DEMANDS NUKE BAN
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_Justin McCurry_ / The Guardian (London)

As the spectre of nuclear weapons returns – this time
in Ukraine – survivors of the atomic bombings, known
as _hibakusha,_ are urging G7 leaders to issue a strong statement
against the use of atomic weapons when they meet in Hiroshima later
this week.

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PUTIN AND VICTORY DAY
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_Anna Ochkina_ / Russian Dissent (Chicago)

Today in Russia, the celebration of Victory Day is still accompanied
by Soviet military songs and films, but what do these familiar images
of the Soviet military saga symbolize now? The ideological distortion
of the war is needed by today's Russian authorities, not to educate
the people on humanism and pacifism, but solely to justify their own
repressive domestic and aggressive foreign policy. 

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