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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – EURO FOCUS  
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June 21, 2023
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_ Europe’s left movements and parties are facing tougher challenges
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Protesters demonstrate in St. Petersburg, Russia, against military
actions in Ukraine in February 2022. Credit, VALYA EGORSHIN / NURPHOTO
VIA GETTY IMAGES

 

* Macron Dissolves Climate Coalition
* Swiss Voters Take On Corporations and Climate
* Are Austria’s Social Democrats Going Socialist?
* Thousands Demand Abortion Rights in Poland
* Greek Left at Crisis Point Ahead of Vote
* New Leader For Portuguese Left Bloc
* Russia: Interview with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance
* Germany: Die Linke and Sahra Wagenknecht Part Ways
* Norway’s Rødt Party
* A Closer Look at Gramsci

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Macron Dissolves Climate Coalition
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_Angelique Chrisafis_ / The Guardian (London)

_Les Soulèvements de la Terre_ (Earth Uprising) is an umbrella group
of several different environmental activist associations across
France. It is seen as leading a new form of more radical climate
action in Europe with high-profile direct action often aimed at big
business interests, state projects and large-scale farming.
A government spokesman accused the coalition of encouraging violence.

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SWISS VOTERS TAKE ON CORPORATIONS AND CLIMATE
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_Brett Wilkins_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)

By wide margins, Swiss voters on Sunday approved a global minimum
corporate tax and a law mandating carbon neutrality in the alpine
nation by midcentury. “Climate law is essential to take a first
step and inscribe in Swiss law a clear objective for 2050. When you
have a clear objective, you can then put in place the necessary
measures,” said Céline Vara, a Green Party parliamentarian.

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ARE AUSTRIA’S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS GOING SOCIALIST?
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_Adam Baltner_ / Jacobin (New York)

For years, Austria’s Social Democrats have embraced the values of
the free market and lost ever more working-class votes. Now,
left-winger Andreas Babler has surged to the party leadership — and
promises to transform his country’s politics.

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THOUSANDS DEMAND ABORTION RIGHTS IN POLAND
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_Weronika Strzyżyńska_ / The Guardian

“Stop killing us,” protesters across Poland chanted on June 14,
demanding the legalisation of abortion, after reports reached the
media of a pregnant woman’s death in a hospital in May. Marta
Lempart, founder of the All-Poland Women’s Strike, which organised
many of the protests, said: “The anti-abortion legislation in
Poland is very restrictive. But doctors are denying access to
abortions that are legal.”

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GREEK LEFT AT CRISIS POINT AHEAD OF VOTE
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_Florian Schmitz_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

Greece goes to the polls on Sunday for the second time in just over a
month. While the left wing opposition is divided, the conservative
government grows stronger. What does this mean for politics in Greece?

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NEW LEADER FOR PORTUGUESE LEFT BLOC
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_Mariana Carneiro_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Brussels)

On 27 and 28 May, the _Bloco de Esquerda _(the Left Bloc) held its
13th National Convention in Lisbon. The new Left Bloc_ _national
coordinator, Mariana Mortágua, stated that “the duty of the left
is to regain strength, to unite the social forces that do not renounce
the struggle for a good life. The duty of the left is to be united and
combative, to speak out and mobilise the people”.

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RUSSIA: INTERVIEW WITH THE FEMINIST ANTI-WAR RESISTANCE
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_Roksana Kiseleva and João Woyzeck_ / Europe Solidaire Sans
Frontières (Paris)

We focus on the social and economic impact of the Russian invasion of
Ukraine in Russia. Our movement is open to anyone who wants to join
it - people can send us pictures of their small protests and we post
them on our social media accounts. Our main goal is to unite and fight
together against the Kremlin.

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GERMANY: DIE LINKE AND SAHRA WAGENKNECHT PART WAYS
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_Gabriel Rinaldi_ / Politico (Arlington County VA)

In a unanimous statement, the Left Party leadership called on
controversial party icon Sahra Wagenknecht, the party’s
parliamentary group leader from 2015 to 2019, to give up her Bundestag
mandate, and demanded that she refrain from founding a competing party
project. Wagenknecht has often flirted with the idea of founding her
own party.

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NORWAY’S RØDT PARTY 
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_Tobias Drevland Lund and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)

It took us ten years to build up our party to the point of being able
to win seats in parliament. Over this period of time, we have gone
from something like 1500 members in 2010 to about 14,000 members.
Grappling with Russia’s invasion has been quite difficult and
something we have had to collectively think through as a party. 

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A CLOSER LOOK AT GRAMSCI
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_Michael Denning and Daniel Denvir_ / Jacobin

Few thinkers on the Left loom as large as Antonio Gramsci. He’s
cited often by a wide range of thinkers for a wide range of purposes,
but few actually bother to take the time to really read and wrestle
with the Italian communist, especially in his historical context.

* France
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* Les Soulèvements de La Terre
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* Switzerland
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* Austria
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* Austrian Social Democratic Party
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* Andreas Babler
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* abortion rights
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* Poland
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* Greece
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* Syriza
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* Portugal
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* Left Bloc
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* Mariana Mortàgua
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* Russia
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* Feminist Anti-war Resistance
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* Germany
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* Die Linke
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* Sahra Wagenknecht
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* Norway
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* Rodt Party
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* Antonio Gramsci
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