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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MARCH 27, 2024
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March 27, 2024
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_ Politics above — politics below _
UK/Palestine solidarity. Credit, David McAllister
* India: Strategy to Defeat the Far Right in Power
* Surprise Win in Senegal
* Unfinished Feminist Revolutions
* Honduras Stands Up to World Bank
* Workers of the World Ignite
* North Sea Fossil Free
* Vietnam Leadership Changes
* A Manifesto from Russia
* Morena and Mexico’s Future
* Sri Lanka Since the Protests
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INDIA: STRATEGY TO DEFEAT THE FAR RIGHT IN POWER
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_Asim Ali_ / Frontline (Mumbai)
The bulk of the opposition has framed the election as “democracy’s
last stand”. The message, however, has faltered at two
levels. Among the _demos_ (masses) of India, such messaging
registers only a tepid response. The second obstacle has been the
behaviour of the political elites of the opposition itself: wide gaps
in terms of unity—of leadership, purpose, or programme.
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VIDEO: SURPRISE WIN IN SENEGAL
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_Arwa Barkallah and Christopher Ogunmodede_ / Deutsche Welle
(Berlin)
Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou
Diomaye Faye was named the country’s next president on Monday, less
than two weeks after being released from prison to run in the
election. Faye’s victory reflected frustration among youth with
high unemployment and concerns about governance in the West African
nation.
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UNFINISHED FEMINIST REVOLUTIONS
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_Nos Révolutions_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
As feminism has made its presence felt in every sphere of existence,
extending its intervention to issues that were not previously seen as
feminist (pensions, the content of school curricula, the organisation
of power, violence, etc.), it has helped to extend politics to all
areas of life. It hence pursued the same objective as the radical
left.
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HONDURAS STANDS UP TO WORLD BANK
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_Ryan Grim_ / The Intercept (Washington DC)
The spectacular battle playing out in Honduras and inside global
financial institutions blends the 19th-century American legacy of
gunboat diplomacy and banana republicanism with a contemporary twist:
The lead group of investors battling Honduras by exploiting
international financial institutions is made up of a band of
crypto-libertarians.
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WORKERS OF THE WORLD IGNITE
* FINLAND
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_Matko Rak_ / WorldCargo News (Reigate UK)
* TUNISIA
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/ Africanews (Lyon)
* ZAMBIA
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/ Blueprint (Abuja, Nigeria)
* GREECE
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/ The Canary (London)
* NORTH MACEDONIA
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_Louis Seiller_ / Equal Times (Brussels)
* UK/PALESTINE
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/ Middle East Monitor (London)
* PHILIPPINES
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_Zeus Legaspi_ / Philippine Daily Inquirer (Manila)
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NORTH SEA FOSSIL FREE
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The Canary
In an unprecedented act of coordinated international climate
protest, Extinction Rebellion activists from the UK, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands protested in solidarity with
each other against new North Sea fossil fuels extraction. Under the
campaign North Sea Fossil Free acts of civil disobedience happened all
around the North Sea.
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VIETNAM LEADERSHIP CHANGES
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_Sebastian Strangio_ / The Diplomat (Arlington VA)
Vietnam’s National Assembly has accepted the resignation of
President Vo Van Thuong, who has become the second president to step
down in as many years amid a wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign.
Thuong’s dismissal is almost certainly linked with Communist Party
chief Nguyen Phu Trong’s “blazing furnace” anti-corruption
campaign.
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A MANIFESTO FROM RUSSIA
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_Справедливый мир_ / Links (Sydney)
Our initiative unites people of democratic, socialist, and communist
views--politicians, bloggers, activists. We have worked out a minimum
program capable of uniting tens of millions of people who currently
have no voice. We want to transform our country from an armoured train
hurtling under the rocks into a place for peaceful and harmonious
development.
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MORENA AND MEXICO’S FUTURE
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_Kurt Hackbarth_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Presidential standard-bearer Claudia Sheinbaum offered glimpses into
Morena's programatic proposals, including a greater emphasis on
women’s issues, building on programs instituted during her term as
mayor of Mexico City. The most eye-catching proposal would lower the
age at which women could qualify for the universal adult pension, with
a partial payment kicking in at the age of sixty.
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SRI LANKA SINCE THE PROTESTS
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_Manimekalai_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The past five years have been an extremely difficult time for Sri
Lanka: from the undemocratic takeover of the repressive regime of
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to a devastating economic crisis.
Nevertheless, or perhaps precisely because, the people of Sri Lanka
continue to rise up in large numbers, in different groups and forms of
national and local protest and activism.
* India
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* elections
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* Feminism
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* senegal
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* Bassirou Diomaye Faye
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* Honduras
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* International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
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* World Bank
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* Workers Fightback
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* Finland
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* Tunisia
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* Zambia
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* Greece
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* North Macedonia
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* UK
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* Palestine
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* Philippines
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* extinction rebellion
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* North Sea
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* Vietnam
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* Russia
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* Just World
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* Mexico
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* Morena
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Sri Lanka
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