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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – VIEWS FROM LEFT PARTIES  
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August 2, 2023
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_ Changing the world — because it needs it _

Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of
Chile. Credit, Alborada

 

* Prospects For a New Left in South Africa
* Workers’ Party of Belgium and Europolitics
* Malaysia Socialist Party Joins Forces With Youth Party
* Portugal’s Left Bloc
* Chile Communist Youth
* Philippines _Partido Lakas ng Masa_ 
* Sudanese CP
* Veteran Myanmar Activist Speaks
* Free Boris Kagarlitsky
* Communism is Freedom

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PROSPECTS FOR A NEW LEFT IN SOUTH AFRICA
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_Editorial Collective_ / Amandla! (Johannesburg)

The Left exists. It is present in many of
today’s struggles. But over time it has become quite
marginal and isolated. With gross levels of inequality and
social polarisation continuing, together with neoliberal
assaults on poor and working-class
people, there will need to be a new cadre of activists
sensitive to a constantly evolving new left politics.

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Workers’ Party of Belgium and Europolitics
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_Marc Botenga and Loren Balhorn_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PDVA) is one of the European
Left’s lesser-known success stories. Although its leaders may not be
as famous as Pablo Iglesias, Alexis Tsipras, or Jeremy Corbyn, the
PTB’s consistent rise to a mass party with national influence in
only 15 years is arguably one of the most remarkable trajectories of
any left-wing party on the continent.

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MALAYSIA SOCIALIST PARTY JOINS FORCES WITH YOUTH PARTY
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_Peter Boyle_ / Green Left (Sydney)

The Socialist Party of Malaysia and the Malaysian United Democracy
Alliance (MUDA) have agreed on an electoral pact for the upcoming
state assembly elections on August 12. This pact, announced on July
15, commits the two parties not to stand candidates against each other
and to campaign on five key shared concerns, including a rejection of
race-based politics.

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PORTUGAL’S LEFT BLOC
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_Jorge Costa and Dick Nichols_ / Links (Sydney)

Costa, a Left Bloc leader, covers developments in Portuguese politics
since the Socialist Party was returned to government in 2015, the
Bloc’s changing relation to it, the rise of the far right in the
form of _Chega!_ (Enough!), the Bloc’s relations with the Portuguese
Communist Party, and the challenges facing the party as it returns to
growth with an influx of a generation of younger activists.

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CHILE COMMUNIST YOUTH
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_Taroa Zúñiga Silva_ / Alborada (London)

Bárbara Navarrete is secretary-general of Chile's Communist
Youth. Fifty years after the coup, left activists oscillate between
hope in a government led by former student leaders, and devastation at
the defeat of a new constitution in 2022. They also have to contend
with the rise of the right wing, which now holds offices in the
legislature, including the presidency of the Senate.

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PHILIPPINES
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LAKAS NG MASA
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_Sonny Melencio and Federico Fuentes_ / Links

Melencio, chairperson of the _Partido Lakas ng Masa_ (Party of the
Labouring Masses, PLM) discusses the current state of global
imperialism, the looming threat of a US-China war and what approach
the left should take to regional peace, security and anti-imperialist
solidarity.

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SUDANESE CP
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

The fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary
Rapid Support Forces, which entered its third month on June 15,
resumed on June 21. Fathi Elfadl, national spokesperson of the
Sudanese Communist Party, argued that the ceasefires were mainly
helping the warring parties recoup. See also this more recent REPORT
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on the conflict.

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VETERAN MYANMAR ACTIVIST SPEAKS
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_Khin Nadi_ / The Irawaddy (Yangon)

Veteran democracy activist Ko Mya Aye, a former 88 Generation student
leader and now a leader of the political organization Federal
Democratic Force, gives his views on the current situation in the
country more than two years after the coup attempt, as well as on
federalism and the junta’s use of jailed leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
to conduct hostage diplomacy.

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FREE BORIS KAGARLITSKY
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Links

Below the international petition (which readers are encouraged to
sign) are statements by: _Russian Socialists Against War_, Rabkor
(Russia), _Russian Socialist Movement_, Posle (Russia), _Socialist
Alliance_ (Australia), _Party of the European Left_, _Transnational
Institute_, Counterpunch, Canadian Dimension, _Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation_, and others.

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COMMUNISM IS FREEDOM
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_Søren Mau_ / Verso Books (London)

The fundamental condition of communism is that the basic conditions of
the life of society are brought under democratic control. New
institutions would need to be built, which would take over many of the
functions we usually associate with the state today, and would also
manage and oversee the economy. What is at stake here is thus a
wide-ranging and comprehensive expansion of democracy. 

* South Africa
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* Belgium
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* Workers' Party Belgium
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* European Union
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* Marc Botenga
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* Malaysia
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* Malaysia Socialist Party
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* Portugal
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* Left Bloc
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* Jorge Costa
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* Chile
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* Chile Communist Youth
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* Barbara Navarrete
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* Philippines
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* Partido Lakas ng Masa
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* Sonny Melencio
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* Sudan
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* Sudan Communist Party
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* Fahti Elfadl
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* Myanmar
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* Ko Mya Aye
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* Russia
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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* Communism
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* democracy
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