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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FEBRUARY 7, 2024
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February 7, 2024
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_ In an age of mass protest, why aren’t we winning? _
Protesters in Brisbane show solidarity with indigenous rights and
Palestinian freedom. Credit, Jono Searle/AAP
* In an Age of Mass Protest, Why Aren’t We Winning?
* Strikes and More Strikes
* Ukraine’s _Sotsialnyi Rukh_ on Palestine’s Fight
* Elections 2024: Pakistan, Indonesia, India, Ireland
* Stormy Germany
* Namibia’s President, SWAPO Founder and Reformer, Dies at 82
* Myanmar Resistance: Tough Questions
* Kenya and Haiti
* Protests on Australia’s Invasion Day
* Walter Rodney’s Marxism
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IN AN AGE OF MASS PROTEST, WHY AREN’T WE WINNING?
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_Mike Phipps_ / Labour Hub (London)
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other
time in human history – the Arab Spring, student direct action in
Chile, democracy activism in Hong Kong and Ukraine, to name a few.
Why, asks Bevins, has success proved so elusive, in many cases the
outcome being the opposite of what the protesters wanted?
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STRIKES AND MORE STRIKES
* ARGENTINA
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_Zoe Alexandra_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
* NORTHERN IRELAND
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_Phil Hearse_ / Anti*Capitalist Resistance (London)
* FINLAND
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_AFP News_ / Yahoo! (Sunnyvale CA)
* UK
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_Erika Page_ / The Christian Science Monitor (Boston)
* NIGERIA
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_Obiora Ikoku_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
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UKRAINE’S _SOTSIALNYI RUKH_ ON PALESTINE’S FIGHT
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_Sotsialnyi Rukh_ / Links (Sydney)
For well-known Hamas partners and sponsors, such as the authoritarian
authorities of Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Russia, the
tragedy of the Palestinian people is only a bargaining chip. But
reducing the Palestinians to “proxies of Tehran and the Kremlin”
in the domestic information space is as much a caricature as the
“proxy” justification of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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ELECTIONS 2024
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_Dr Amar Ali Jan_ / Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Lahore)
* INDONESIA
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_Johannes Nugroho_ / South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
* INDIA
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_Nidhi Sharma_ / The Economic Times (Mumbai)
* IRELAND
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_Rory Carroll_ / The Guardian (London)
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STORMY GERMANY
* ANTI-FASCIST PROTESTS CONTINUE [USE TRANSLATION APP]
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_Peter Nowak and Jana Frielinghaus_ / Neues Deutschland (Berlin)
* ANTI-FASCISM, GAZA AND WAR GUILT
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_Simsim Abdo_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
* AFTER _DIE LINKE_ SPLIT
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_Carsten Braband and Mario Candeias_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
(Berlin)
* LABOR UPSURGE
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_Ben Knight_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
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NAMIBIA’S PRESIDENT, SWAPO FOUNDER AND REFORMER, DIES AT 82
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_Henning Melber_ / The Conversation (Waltham MA)
Swapo’s candidate Hage Geingob was elected as Namibia’s
president for 2015 to 2020. In 2017 he became party president. As head
of state with far reaching executive powers, he remained in control
over party and government since then. He elevated Namibia into the
league of countries with the highest proportion of women in leading
political offices.
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MYANMAR RESISTANCE: TOUGH QUESTIONS
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_Nyan Lin_ / The Irawaddy (Yangon)
Staging an armed revolution requires well-articulated objectives and a
sound strategy. Support from local people also matters. Fought by
spirited and energetic young people, the revolution has made
remarkable progress. But for success, an armed revolution must come
under a single command or headquarters. The resistance government’s
Ministry of Defense has achieved little success so far.
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KENYA AND HAITI
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch
Despite the prohibition by Kenya’s High Court, President William
Ruto has vowed to deploy policemen within this week to Haiti.
Communist Party of Kenya leader Booker Omole says Ruto is selling the
country’s foreign policy to the highest bidder, namely the US.
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INDIGENOUS PROTESTS ON AUSTRALIA’S INVASION DAY
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_Caitlin Cassidy, Henry Belot and Andrew Messenger_ / The Guardian
The speeches in major capital cities highlighted anger and despair
over high incarceration rates, ongoing deaths in custody and the
forced removal of First Nations children from their families. The
rallies come just months after the proposal for an Indigenous voice to
parliament was overwhelmingly defeated at the referendum.
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WALTER RODNEY’S MARXISM
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_Shozab Raza and Noaman G. Ali_ / Boston Review
Rodney was among the midcentury thinkers deeply influenced by Marxism
who argued that formal independence from colonial powers did not
entail actual emancipation. Instead, it led to a “neocolonial”
order in which a country’s “economic system and thus its political
policy is directed from outside,” as independent Ghana’s first
leader, Kwame Nkrumah, put it in 1965.
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* Strikes
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* Argentina
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* Northern Ireland
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* Finland
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* United Kingdom
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* Nigeria
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* Ukraine
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* Sotsialnyi Rukh
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* Palestine
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* elections 2024
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* Pakistan
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* Haqooq-e-Khalq Party
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* Indonesia
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* Indonesia Labour Party
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* India
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* ireland
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* Sinn Fein
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* Michelle O’Neil
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* Germany
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* German anti-fascists
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* Gaza
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* Die Linke
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* Sahra Wagenknecht
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* German labor unions
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* Hage Geingob
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* Namibia
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* Myanmar
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* Nyan Lin
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* Kenya
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* Haiti
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* Communist Party of Kenya
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* Indigenous peoples
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* Australia
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* Invasion Day
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* Walter Rodney
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