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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 31, 2023
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May 31, 2023
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Extinction Rebellion protestors have been apprehended in the
Netherlands for blocking a major road in The Hague. The 1,579 people
who refused to leave the A12 motorway after walking into the road and
forming a blockade were taken away by police. Credit, Extinction
Rebellion Netherlands
* Jayati Ghosh Podcast: Rebalancing Power
* Turkish Left Parties Will Keep the Heat on Erdogan
* Labor Rumblings
* Sudan: From War to Revolution
* Thai Election and the Myanmar Struggle
* Polisario at 50
* Chile: Boric Hits a Pinochet-Shaped Rock
* Racism and the French Revolt
* International Day of Peasant Struggles
* Interview: Editors of Ukraine’s Leading Left Journal
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JAYATI GHOSH PODCAST: REBALANCING POWER
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_Carl Schlyter and Alexia Fridén_ / SystemShift (Stockholm)
The renowned development economist, Jayati Ghosh, argues for the need
to redress the power imbalances which are reinforcing socially
irrational and unjust policies. Seen through the prisms of gender
inequality, social discrimination, and global power dynamics between
countries, how does relational inequality impact the ability of
individuals or groups to influence the actions of others?
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TURKISH LEFT PARTIES WILL KEEP THE HEAT ON ERDOGAN
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HDP Europe (Brussels)
The Green Left Party and HDP want to continue to defend society and
its rights with all their strength and fight in all fields. “We are
here. We will continue the democratic struggle for change both in
parliament and in all other areas of life, we will make democratic
politics grow. We will not deviate from this path. With the base of
society, we will fight and win together.”
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LABOR RUMBLINGS
* NEW WORLD REALITIES
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_Timothy Rooks_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
* FRANCE
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_Leigh Thomas_ / Yahoo! Money (New York)
* JAPAN
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_Promise Li_ / Jacobin (New York)
* EU
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_Minoas Andriotis_ / LeftEast
* CANADA
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_Natasha Bulowski_ / Canada’s National Observer (Vancouver)
* CHINA
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/ China Labour Bulletin (Hong Kong)
* ITALY
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_Frankie Lister-Fell_ / Novara Media (London)
* INDIA
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_Puja Pal and Amit Kumar_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
* ROMANIA
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_Vladimir Mitev_ / Cross-Border Talks (Warsaw)
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SUDAN: FROM WAR TO REVOLUTION
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_Mohammed Amin_ / Middle East Eye (London)
In the past fortnight, Sudan’s Resistance Committees, a nationwide
network of activist cells that were the driving force behind the
uprising that swept Bashir out of power in 2019, have been holding
“informal but intense discussions” in Atbara, as they seek a way
to resume war-torn Sudan’s democratic path.
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THAI ELECTION AND THE MYANMAR STRUGGLE
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The Irrawaddy (Yangon)
Thailand’s Move Forward Party (MFP) won the largest number of seats
among the contestants in the country’s May 14 polls. The MFP’s
leader, Prime Minister-elect Pita Limjaroenrat, 42, has been a
consistent critic of Thailand’s policy toward neighboring Myanmar,
where the regime has been attacking civilians—including bombing
villages, schools and clinics—as well as resistance forces.
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POLISARIO AT 50
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_Bill Fletcher Jr and Sidi Omar _/ The Real News Network (Baltimore)
Through the twists and turns of history, the people of Western Sahara
have faced Spanish colonialism, the occupation of their territory by
Mauritania and Morocco, and expulsion from their territory to refugee
camps in Algeria. Despite this long struggle, Western Sahara’s
history and politics remain relatively unknown to many outsiders. For
50 years the Polisario Front led the fight.
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CHILE: BORIC HITS A PINOCHET-SHAPED ROCK
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_Marc Cooper_ / Truthdig (Santa Monica)
Chile’s Progressive President Gabriel Boric and his leftist
administration suffered a major blow when the extreme-right Republican
Party of José Antonio Kast, along with other right-wing allies, won
an overwhelming 2-to-1 majority on a committee elected to begin
rewriting the country’s 1980 constitution. The vote reveals
dissatisfaction on the left concerning Boric’s recent moves toward
the center.
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RACISM AND THE FRENCH REVOLT
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_John Mullen_ / Green Left (Sydney)
The French radical and revolutionary left has been traditionally weak
on actively fighting racism. Recently a right-wing smear campaign
against a student union which sometimes organises seminars reserved
for Black members found far too few defenders on the left. And for
decades no left organisation took fighting Islamophobia seriously;
even today they are often disappointing.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANT STRUGGLES
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La Via Campesina (Bagnolet, France)
April 17 is globally commemorated through educational, mass, and
mobilization initiatives led by peasant, indigenous, and migrant
organizations, as well as farmers and farm workers at large. They
stand in solidarity with the struggle for food sovereignty, land
rights, popular agrarian reform, and the promotion of peasant
agroecology to address the climate crisis and global hunger.
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INTERVIEW: EDITORS OF UKRAINE’S LEADING LEFT JOURNAL
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_Patrick Le Tréhondat _/ New Politics (New York)
_Commons, __Journal of Social Criticism_, is certainly one of the
most important and productive places for us to understand the
situation in Ukraine — and in the world. Today _Commons_ is a
reference website for critical thinking on the European left. While
the site deals with issues specific to Ukraine, it is open to the
world.
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