[Looking back/Looking ahead]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 27, 2023
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December 27, 2023
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_ Looking back/Looking ahead _
Dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023). Credit, Shutterstock.com
* Looking Back
* Looking Ahead
* Racism and Workers’ Rights
* Ukraine
* Philippines: Delivery Riders Organize
* _¡Que Viva América Latina!_
* Kolkata Rainbow Pride
* The Day Women Took the Streets of Rome
* Namibia Reparations
* Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah 1958-2023
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LOOKING BACK
* EUROPE: MISSING A SHARED STRATEGY
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_Vladimir Bortun_ / Jacobin (New York)
* A HARD LOOK AT SAHRA WAGENKNECHT
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_Oliver Nachtwey_ / New Left Review (London)
* SUDAN
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_Omar Abdelaziz_ / Radio Dabanga (Amsterdam)
* ZAPATISTAS
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_Raúl Zibechi_ / NACLA Report (New York)
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LOOKING AHEAD
* IN THE EU
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_Roberto Musacchio_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
* FIGHTING CORRUPTION
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_International Foundation for Electoral Systems et al._ /
Transparency International (Berlin)
* STAYING ISRAEL’S HAND
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_Celeste Marcus_ / The New Statesman (London)
* 2024 ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY
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_David A. Andelman_ / CNN (Atlanta)
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RACISM AND WORKERS’ RIGHTS
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_Nancy Kachingwe_ / Public Services International (Geneva)
A look at some of the work that has been done by anti-racist and
decolonial scholars and activists globally exploring why racism and
white supremacy (as a legacy of slavery, imperialism and colonialism)
remain entrenched in the global political economy, and how the
resurgence of both overt and covert racism, xenophobia and other forms
of intolerance are constitutive of neoliberal globalisation.
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UKRAINE
* AGENDA TO END WAR
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_Oleksandr Kyselov_ / Commons (Kyiv)
* CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN WARTIME
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_Iryna Voloshyna_ / The Conversation (Waltham MA)
* WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES
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_Kateryna Farbar_ / openDemocracy (London)
* UNIONS UNDER FIRE
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_Thomas Rowley and Serhiy Guz_ / openDemocracy
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PHILIPPINES: DELIVERY RIDERS ORGANIZE
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_Yvan Ysmael Yonaha_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
SENTRO supported actions by delivery riders with their organizational
resources, aiming to build _associational power_ for Grab riders and
other platform workers. Associational power derives from the
workers’ capacity to organise themselves to advocate for their
interests and pressure decision-makers. This could be through
unionization, setting up demonstrations, or building political
parties.
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¡QUE VIVA AMÉRICA LATINA!_
* WOMEN IN MEXICAN POLITICS
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_Kurt Hackbarth_ / Jacobin
* ARGENTINA [[link removed]]
_Julia Conley_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
* HONDURAS
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_Nina Lakhani_ / Democracy Now! (New York)
* CHILE [[link removed]]
_Nyki Duda_ / NACLA Report
* PERU
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_Magda Gibelli_ / openDemocracy
* PANAMA
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/ Building and Wood Workers’ International (Carouge,
Switzerland)
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KOLKATA RAINBOW PRIDE
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_Debabratee Dhar_ / Feminism in India (New Delhi)
The Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk returned with love, resistance, pride,
and a flourish of beautiful colours and artful posters. Kolkata’s
Pride Walk serves as a reminder that to be queer is to not only exist
outside the mainstream, but to reject the norm, to establish and to
recognise with dignity and respect, every way of loving, living, and
existing.
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THE DAY WOMEN TOOK THE STREETS OF ROME
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_Barbara Piccininni_ / transform! Europe
Can the remarkable demonstration in Rome on 25th November,
orchestrated by _Non Una di Meno _(Not One Less), be dubbed a perfect
storm? A monumental 500,000 people took to the streets to demand an
end to violence against women. This unprecedented turnout is the
immediate backdrop for a deeper exploration of the political landscape
over the past decade.
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UNFULFILLED PROMISE: NAMIBIA REPARATIONS
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_Shola Lawal_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Herero and Nama leaders had long pushed for a holistic reparations
framework that would include recognition of the 1904-1908 massacre as
a genocide by Germany, direct compensation for generational economic
loss to their communities, land transfers, and crucially, full
participation in the process.
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DUB POET BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH: 1958-2023
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His work was heavily influenced by Jamaican music and poetry, and he
was often classified as a dub poet. In 2003, Zephaniah rejected his
OBE. “Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought,” he wrote. “I
get angry when I hear that word ‘empire’; it reminds me of
slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me
of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised.”
* Europe
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* the Left
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* Germany
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* Sahra Wagenknecht
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* Die Linke
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* Sudan
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* Zapatistas
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* European Union
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* corruption
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* Israel
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* Israel-Gaza War
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* 2024 Elections
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* Racism
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* workers rights
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* Ukraine
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* Christmas
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* Ukrainian women
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* Ukrainian unions
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* Philippines
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* SENTO
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* delivery drivers
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* Latin America
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* Mexico
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* Women
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Argentina
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* Javier Milei
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* Honduras
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* Berta Cáceres
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* Chile
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* Peru
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* abortion rights
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* Panama
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* Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk
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* India
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* Italy
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* Non Una di Meno
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* Namibia
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* reparations
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* Benjamin Zephaniah
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