[Reports on women in action in Bulgaria and El Salvador, the
election drama in Ecuador, the coup in Niger, and more]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 16, 2023  
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August 16, 2023
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_ Reports on women in action in Bulgaria and El Salvador, the
election drama in Ecuador, the coup in Niger, and more _

, Fundación Mujeres

 

* Class Identity and Fighting the Right
* African Socialists on Niger Coup
* Ecuador Election
* Bulgarians Protest Domestic Violence
* Latest From Myanmar
* Venezuelan Communes
* South African Left: A Response to the _Amandla!_ Collective
* Haiti: 50th Congress of the _Mouvman Peyizan Papay_
* Women Fighting Abortion Ban in El Salvador
* Prabhat Patnaik on Universal Basic Income

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CLASS IDENTITY AND FIGHTING THE RIGHT
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_Federico Fuentes and Pablo Stefanoni_ / Green Left (Sydney)

Pablo Stefanoni is editor of the progressive Latin American
magazine _Nueva Sociedad_ and author of _La rebeldía se volvió de
derecha?_ (_Has rebellion become a thing of the right?_). He spoke
about the situation in South America after the left’s victory in
Brazil — and the stronger-than-expected showing for the extreme
right.

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AFRICAN SOCIALISTS ON NIGER COUP
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Links (Sydney)

This is a collection of statements by African socialists, trade unions
and democratic forces on the recent coup in Niger. This includes
statements by: Nigeria Labour Congress, Seneplus (Senegal/various),
Movement for a Socialist Alternative (Nigeria), and others. This page
will be continuously updated.

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ECUADOR ELECTION
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_Stephan Kueffner and Marcelo Rochabrun_ / Yahoo! News (Sunnyvale CA)

Ecuador’s presidential candidates tried to distinguish themselves in
a bumpy debate on Sunday, marked by the absence of a replacement for
slain candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Polls conducted after
Villavicencio’s killing have shown the anti-crime hard-liner Jan
Topic gaining ground against leftist Luisa González.

[_xxxxxx NOTE:_ The fatal shooting Monday of Pedro Briones, a local
leader of _Revolución Ciudadana_, the party of former President
Rafael Correa, was confirmed by Luisa González, the frontrunner in
Sunday’s special presidential election and member of the same
party.]

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BULGARIANS PROTEST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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_Madlen Nikolova_ / Jacobin (New York)

Last week saw protests in 40 towns across Bulgaria, after courts
failed to convict a man who attacked his 18-year-old former partner
with a knife. The case pointed to authorities’ failure to confront
domestic violence — and the wider misogyny of public life.

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LATEST FROM MYANMAR
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_Matthew B. Arnold_ / The Irrawaddy (Yangon)

Myanmar’s revolution is a sprawling bottom-up revolt
initially driven by the imperatives of local self-defense that grew
into a national uprising based on shared aspirations for a better
future built upon federal democracy. Look around the world and there
is no clearer example of a mass movement fighting for a just cause. 

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VENEZUELAN COMMUNES
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_Reinaldo Iturriza López_ / Venezuelanalysis (Caracas)

To take on the titanic task of transforming a subordinate and
dependent economic structure implies, to put it in Rosa Luxemburg's
words, venturing into uncharted territory and facing a thousand
problems. The formula discovered by the Bolivarian leadership was the
communal councils, Space belonging to the community, primarily
occupied by the poorest of the poor.

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SOUTH AFRICAN LEFT: A RESPONSE TO THE _AMANDLA!_ COLLECTIVE
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_Mercia Andrews_ / Amandla! (Johannesburg)

This article seeks to respond to the questions posed by _Amandla!_
which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the
Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has
happened to it, and why has it become so fragmented and
marginal? Renewing an eco-socialist, eco-feminist politics has to be
approached as a long march, avoiding shortcuts and opportunistic quick
fixes. 

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HAITI: 50TH CONGRESS OF 
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_MOUVMAN PEYIZAN PAPAY_
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Via Campesina (Bagnolet, France)

We were born in 1973 under the dictatorship of Duvalier. This means
that the MPP grew up in arid terrain, facing adverse winds and a
difficult burden. Many of our members were injured, many died. The
criminal State plundered and stole from us. They tried to crush us,
scare us, make us disappear, but we are stronger because we are like
bamboo, we bend but don’t break.

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WOMEN FIGHTING ABORTION BAN IN EL SALVADOR
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_Alice Pistolesi and Monica Pelliccia_ / Progressive International

Women in El Salvador who were imprisoned for years after suffering
miscarriages, stillbirths and other complications are now fighting for
the freedom of other women persecuted like them. _Mujeres Libres El
Salvador_ provides training and support for women who have been
deprived of their liberty, to enable them to reintegrate into
society. 

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PRABHAT PATNAIK ON UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
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_Prabhat Patnaik_ / Peoples Democracy (New Delhi)

If the idea is to have a UBI in real terms, then the only possible
meaning one can give to it is in terms of a set of specific rights, to
health, education, and such like, which the government has to take on
the responsibility for providing. 

* Brazil
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* Lula da Silva
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* Jair Bolsonaro
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* THE RIGHT
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* South America
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* Niger coup
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* African socialists
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* Nigerian Labor Congress
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* Ecuador
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* elections
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* Fernando Villavicencio
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* Luisa González
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* Revolución Ciudadana
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* Bulgaria
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* domestic violence
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* Myanmar
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* Venezuela
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* communes
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* South Africa
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* South African left
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* Amandla!
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* Haiti
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* Mouvman Peyizan Papay
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* El Salvador
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* abortion rights
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* universal basic income
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* Prabhat Patnaik
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