GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JANUARY 24, 2024  
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January 24, 2024
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_ Far right insurgence meets mass resistance _

"Never again!" Frankfurt, Germany. Credit, Michael Probst/AP

 

* Germany: Left and Center Rage Against Far Right
* Argentina General Strike
* Arab Regimes Ignore Grassroots Palestine Support
* India: Left Parties Gear Up in Bihar
* More on Italy’s Mass Upsurge Against Femicide
* The Enigma of the Egyptian Left
* Bulgaria’s Past and Present
* Iranian Workers Demand Their Rights
* News From Sudan
* Reclaiming Lenin

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GERMANY: LEFT AND CENTER RAGE AGAINST FAR RIGHT
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_Kate Brady_ / The Washington Post

Demonstrations against the far-right Alternative for Germany party
swept the country this weekend, strengthening calls to ban the party,
after a report that AfD members had discussed plans for mass
deportations. The report was a wake-up call for Germans opposed to
AfD, whose popularity has surged in recent months. An estimated 1.4
million people hit the streets with anti-fascist demands.

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Argentina General Strike
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_Tom Phillips and Facundo Iglesia_ / The Guardian (London)

Argentine demonstrators have staged their biggest-yet show of
opposition to Javier Milei’s radical attempt to reshape the South
American country with a nationwide strike that shuttered schools and
businesses, grounded hundreds of flights, and saw tens of thousands of
marchers hit the streets.

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ARAB REGIMES IGNORE GRASSROOTS PALESTINE SUPPORT
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_Mohamad Elmasry_ / Middle East Eye (London)

Going forward, the question for Arab regimes will revolve around the
extent to which they are willing to ignore popular
sentiments. Pushing ahead with Israel normalisation against the will
of their citizens could prove risky. Indeed, Arab publics appear
united in anger. The last time anger was this palpable on the Arab
streets was during the Arab Spring era. 

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INDIA: LEFT PARTIES GEAR UP IN BIHAR
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_Mohd. Imran Khan_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)

Left parties, crucial allies of Bihar’s ruling Mahagathbandhan
coalition, a part of the opposition alliance Indian
National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), are aiming to
contest 12 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. Leaders of the
Left parties have called for a fair share in seat allocation to
effectively challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National
Democratic Alliance.

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MORE ON ITALY’S MASS UPSURGE AGAINST FEMICIDE
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_Luca Celada and Shendi Veli_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

A wide movement protesting patriarchy culminated in November in
nationwide public demonstrations, notably a 500,000 strong march and
rally in Rome. The intense focus has driven a wedge in Italian
society. Beyond politics, the case has laid bare a systemic issue
that concerns all of Italian society — and all men.

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THE ENIGMA OF THE EGYPTIAN LEFT
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_Hesham Sallam_ / Orient XXI (Paris)

Although the Egyptian street has always seemed to favor the emergence
of left-wing power, this political current has been losing the battle
to the Islamists and to the government for several decades now. A lack
of autonomy was fostered by the regimes of presidents Nasser and
Sadat, as well as a tendency to emphasize “identity” debates to
the detriment of socio-economic problems.

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BULGARIA’S PAST AND PRESENT
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_Ognian Kassabov_ / Jacobin (New York)

Bulgarian authorities have begun dismantling the capital city’s main
memorial to the Red Army. Celebrated as a move to bury the Communist
past, the obsession with symbolic score-settling in fact reflects an
inability to talk about this history seriously. Revisionism equating
Nazi and Soviet rule often tends to sanitize the Nazi affiliations of
some local anti-communist actors.

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IRANIAN WORKERS DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS
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_Steve Bishop_ / Morning Star (London)

The level of discontent in Iran can be measured in part by the wide
range of strike action which is affecting all parts of the economy.
Protests and strikes directed against the government by steelworkers,
nurses and retirees are continuing across Iran, citing plunging living
standards, government corruption and state oppression as the main
areas of concern.

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NEWS FROM SUDAN

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 _Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
 
* INTERMILITARY WAR AND PEACE
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Awad_ / London Review of Books

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Reclaiming Lenin
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_Paweł Wargan_ / Verso (London)

Lenin passed away a century ago — before the nation he helped found
brought fascist colonialism to its knees, and before the inheritors of
the colonial project defeated that nation. The banishing of Lenin
from the surface of our lives also banished him from its depths. Lenin
was, above all, a student of a world measured in heartbeats — not
profit. 

* Germany
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* Alternative for Germany
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* Argentina
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* general strike
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* Javier Milei
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* Arab regimes
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* Palestine
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* Solidarity
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* India
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* Bihar
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* Indian left
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* Italy
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* Femicide
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* Egypt
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* the Left
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* Bulgaria
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* national memory
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* Iran
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* Iranian unions
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* Sudan
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* Sudanese Communist Party
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* Rapid Support Forces
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* Haitham Dafallah
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* Vladimir Lenin
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