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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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February 28, 2024
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_ Unrest worldwide, and what it means _
Female farmers listen to a speech by a farming leader at the protest
site on the Indian Shambhu border between Haryana and Punjab. Credit,
Md Meherban/Al Jazeera
* Palestine, Ukraine and Self-Determination
* Labor Buzz
* African Visions of Democracy
* Cuba’s Uncertain Future
* Israeli Left’s Junction
* EP Thompson’s Tradition
* Furious Farmers
* Left Candidate for Euro Commission
* The Cultural Contingent of the Argentinian Resistance
* How Free is Free Trade?
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PALESTINE, UKRAINE AND SELF-DETERMINATION
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_Frank Hansen_ / Labour Hub (London)
While much of the left supports a ceasefire and Palestinian
self-determination, some are reticent and even opposed to linking this
with the struggle of the Ukraine people against oppression. The left
needs to unite against the aggression of Putin’s reactionary,
kleptocratic regime, which justifies its actions using lies,
half-truths and Great Russian chauvinist ideology.
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LABOR BUZZ
* GUINEA
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France 24 (Paris)
* BELIZE
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_Bijay Laxmi_ / BNNBreaking (Hong Kong)
* CZECHIA
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IndustriALL Global Union (Geneva)
* EGYPT
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_Beesan Kassab_ / Mada Masr (Cairo)
* SOUTH AFRICA
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_Takudzwa Pongweni _/ Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
* GERMANY
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_Kate Connolly_ / The Guardian (London)
* NIGERIA
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Africanews (Lyon)
* VIETNAM
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_Francesco Guarascio_ / Saltwire (Halifax)
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AFRICAN VISIONS OF DEMOCRACY
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_Daniel Paget_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
For many, the question of what democracy means has been a closed one.
In academia, it has taken insurgent scholars not least from the
Global South to insist that we can re-envisage what democracy is and
what is achieved in it. This exercise is taken up not only by
scholars, but also through the evolving political thought of
democracy activists in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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CUBA’S UNCERTAIN FUTURE
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_Danny Valdes_ / The Indypendent (New York)
The blockade has created a situation unique to Cuba in both the way it
has worked to strangle the Cuban economy but also in the way it has
shaped Cuba by isolating it from foreign capital. Would Cuba be as
committed to its vision of socialism had American capital been allowed
to wield its influence and create its oligarchs on the island?
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ISRAELI LEFT
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JUNCTION
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_Sally Abed, Yael Berda, Eli Cook and Joshua Leifer_ / Dissent
(New York)
The new Israeli left that we need to build from the ashes has a
completely new mission. October 7 has created a historic junction,
where the main question will be peace or no peace. I don’t think
“peace” is going to be the word, but the next elections are going
be on this issue. And it hasn’t been the issue for so many years.
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EP THOMPSON’ [[link removed]]S
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_Owen Dowling_ / Tribune (London)
On E.P. Thompson’s centenary, left leaders Jeremy Corbyn, the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s Kate Hudson and John McDonnell
talk about the author of a foundational classic of radical
history-from-below, _The Making of the English Working
Class_ (1963). Thompson was also a leading champion and protagonist
of popular protest in his own time.
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FURIOUS FARMERS
* INDIA
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_Rifat Fareed_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
* EUROPE
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_Morgan Ody and Vincent Delobel_ / Al Jazeera
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LEFT CANDIDATE FOR EURO COMMISSION
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_Max Griera_ / Euractiv (Brussels)
The European Left party elected its President Walter Baier as their
candidate to lead the European Commission following the June
elections, while pledging to put working classes at the heart of the
fight against the climate crisis. Member of the Communist Party of
Austria, Baier has been the president of the European Left party since
December 2022.
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THE CULTURAL CONTINGENT OF THE ARGENTINIAN RESISTANCE
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_Daniel Cholakian_ / NACLA Report (New York)
The resistance of the cultural sector in the streets was overwhelming
from the moment the first measures of the new Javier Milei government
were announced. This prompted them to join the march as a sector
identified with a large banner that read “CULTURE,” something that
had never happened in Argentina before.
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WHAT’S FREE ABOUT FREE TRADE?
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_Kate Yoon_ / Boston Review
Progressives should reject the escalating zero-sum competition with
China and instead support remaking the global economy through creating
demand in the Global South. The realities of global commerce demand
serious thinking about what a liberatory vision of free trade could
look like.
* Palestine
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* Ukraine
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* Self-determination
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* Labor
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* Belize
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* Czech Republic
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* Egypt
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* South Africa
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* Germany
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* Nigeria
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* Vietnam
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* Africa
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* democracy
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* Cuba
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* Israeli left
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* E.P. Thompson
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* Farmers
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* India
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* Europe
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* Walter Baier
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* European Commission
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* Party of the European Left
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* cultural workers
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* Argentina
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* Free Trade
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* Guinea
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