[Major strikes in Iran and the UK, repression in Germany and
Swaziland, and more]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JUNE 7, 2023
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June 7, 2023
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_ Major strikes in Iran and the UK, repression in Germany and
Swaziland, and more _
, Workers protest in Iran
* Iran Strike Wave
* German Police Attack Climate Activists
* The Saga of Eritrea
* From PSOL: Brazil and Ukraine
* UK Rail Strike
* Re-Looking at Cuba
* Syriza on the Canvas
* Swaziland Communists Confront Repression
* The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square
* Why ZANU-PF Still Can’t Dance to Chimurenga Music
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IRAN STRIKE WAVE
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_Hamid Mohseni_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
We are seeing a continuation — or even an intensification — of
industrial disputes in the country into what could be the largest wave
of strikes the Islamic Republic has ever seen. For weeks, even months,
pensioners, teachers, steel and metal workers, truck drivers, medical
personnel, and workers from other sectors have been on strike,
regularly taking to the streets throughout the country.
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GERMAN POLICE ATTACK CLIMATE ACTIVISTS
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_Olivia Rosane_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
German police on Wednesday raided the climate activist group Letzte
Generation, or Last Generation, seized accounts, and shut down its
website. Last Generation is an Extinction Rebellion-style group that
uses direct-action tactics such as blocking traffic, shutting
off oil pipelines, or dousing a Monet in mashed potatoes to call
for more ambitious climate policies.
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THE SAGA OF ERITREA
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_Michela Wrong and Daniel Finn_ / Jacobin (New York)
Eritrea’s long struggle for independence finally ended in victory
three decades ago. However, the Eritrean leader Isaias Afwerki soon
established a highly repressive political system that caused many
young people to flee. Since 2020, Afwerki’s army has been a key
protagonist in one of the world’s most destructive wars, fighting
alongside Ethiopian government forces in Tigray.
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FROM PSOL: BRAZIL AND UKRAINE
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_Israel Dutra and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)
Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement (MES), discusses the
twin challenge facing the international left today: inter-imperialist
rivalry and combating the rise of the extreme right. MES is a tendency
within the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), of which Dutra is the
secretary general.
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UK RAIL STRIKE
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_Mick Lynch and Taj Ali_ / Tribune (London)
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) has called further strike
action as part of a long-running, bitter dispute with train operating
companies over pay, job losses and cuts that would destroy the railway
as we know it. RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has the latest on the
dispute, how the government is scuppering negotiations and why rail
workers are prepared to keep on fighting.
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RE-LOOKING AT CUBA
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_Rafael Hernández_ / OnCuba (Miami)
The so-called “Rectification of errors and negative trends”
launched 30 years ago to review the Soviet economic model opened the
Pandora’s box of Cuban society. The setback of the Special Period
(following the Soviet collapse) suddenly stopped that
“Rectification,” without having succeeded in replacing the
criticized model; rather dragging it on.
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SYRIZA ON THE CANVAS
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_Katy Fallon_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
The election results have provoked soul searching on the left about
what the future holds for Syriza and other left-wing parties, such as
MeRA25, headed by former Syriza Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis,
which failed to gain enough votes to qualify for even one seat in
parliament.
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SWAZILAND COMMUNISTS CONFRONT REPRESSION
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
The Communist Party of Swaziland is set to launch a “Break the
Chains” campaign to demand the release of political prisoners,
including its Central Committee member Mvuselelo Mkhabela. The
campaign will include protests and roadblocks in rural communities,
starting with Mvuselelo’s town of Hluti in impoverished Shiselweni,
where he had organized the communities against the monarchy.
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THE FORGOTTEN SOCIALISTS OF TIANANMEN SQUARE
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_Yueran Zhang_ / Jacobin
“Democracy” as understood by workers was different from the
liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a
distinctly _socialist_ vision of democracy premised on the agency of
the working class. This dimension of the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy
Movement, as a workers’ movement fighting for socialist democracy,
has been mostly forgotten.
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WHY ZANU-PF STILL CAN’T DANCE TO CHIMURENGA MUSIC
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_Mwai Daka_ / African Arguments (London)
Music was central to the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe, serving as a
means to articulate the plight of the colonised natives during British
rule (1923-1980). Music continues to serve as a medium through which
revolutionaries and activists in Zimbabwe can redress injustices. It
also continues to be repressed.
* Iran
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* strike
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* Eritrea
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* Isaias Afwerki
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* Brazil
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* Ukraine
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* PSOL
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* UK
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* Mick Lynch
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* Cuba
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* Greece
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* Syriza
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* Swaziland
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* Communist Party of Swaziland
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* Mvuselelo Mkhabela
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* China
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* Tiananmen
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* Zimbabwe
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