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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 24, 2024  
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April 24, 2024
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_ Focus on Europe _

National strike, Athens, April 17. Writing on banner with red line
across the face of Greece’s Prime Minister, reads in Greek:
“Killer Government / We Will Overturn It." Credit, AP
Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis

 

* Anti-Fascist Meeting of Left Parties in Lisbon
* Greek National Strike
* Spanish Elections
* UK
* Germany
* Italy
* France: First Priorities for the Left
* Hungary: Fighting Orban
* Portugal’s Carnation Revolution of 1974
* Anna Rozenshtein: A Revolutionary Life at the End of the 19th
Century

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ANTI-FASCIST MEETING OF LEFT PARTIES IN LISBON
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European Left (Brussels)

“Across Europe, the far-right propagates the ideas of
authoritarianism, against feminism and LGTB rights, negation of the
climate threat, and militarism. The role of the left, as it has
historically been, is to create social majorities to change the
present and the future”, Mariana Mortágua, national coordinator of
the Bloco de Esquerda, told the No Pasaran! conference.

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GREEK NATIONAL STRIKE
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PAME (Athens)

With massive and militant rallies all over Greece, thousands of
workers demanded collective contracts with wage increases, measures
against inflation, and disengagement from the imperialist wars and
crimes. The strike brought the message of solidarity with the heroic
people of Palestine.

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SPANISH ELECTIONS

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IU [United Left, a coalition of left parties] maintains that the
result for the non-nationalist left in Euskadi [Basque Country] is
“bad” and requires self-criticism, given that Sumar [a broad left
electoral platform led by former labor minister Yolanda Díaz], with
only one seat won in this election, is not succeeding as a
“unifying” space, and its division from [left party] Podemos
brought the electoral punishment.

“We have had an opinion for quite some time and we have expressed it
clearly. We must join all the organizations and people and when they
get lost along the way, then the processes that divide the left do not
help to obtain good results,” said Ismael González, IU organization
secretary. 

Thus, González insists, in Euskadi, Galicia or in other electoral
races, “it could have been better” if Sumar's campaign had been
broader and included more participants, while IU’s DNA is based on
creating electoral processes that unite the left.

This, as he related, must lead to a process of self-criticism in
Sumar, in the IU itself and in the group of organizations linked to
Yolanda Díaz, and also in Podemos, since the responsibility should
not be placed on only one party.

In this sense, González has insisted that we can’t be satisfied
with the result of the non-nationalist left, although it is legitimate
that Sumar should have a positive assessment of entering the Basque
parliament.

Therefore, he insisted that the evolution of parliament is not good
and that IU has been warning about it for some time, after the
electoral fragmentation brought a loss of votes in 2020 and that the
left has gone from six seats to only one deputy.

“The result for the transformative left has not been the best in the
world, parliamentary representation is reduced (...) Sumar is not
creating that space for bringing together all the left or all the
people. We must take note in this sense and be self-critical,”
González warned.

He therefore demanded that left parties stop giving “shows” (in
reference to the internal disputes in the alternative left to the
PSOE), and called on them to come to terms on programmatic aspects to
achieve greater unity.

He also remarked that “there is not a brand problem”, and that the
challenge is to make the parties “stronger”, given that if all the
political actors are strengthened, the performance will be better.

However, he is confident that in the European elections the
alternative left can recover, given that there is room for improvement
to enhance results.
 

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BASQUE COUNTRY
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  _Alfons Luna_ / Caledonian Record (St. Johnsbury VT)

* CATALONIA
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  _Joan Faus_ / Reuters (London) 

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UK

* LABOUR VS GREEN [[link removed]]
  _Dave Toke_ / Chartist (London)
 
* ANTI-FASCISM NOW
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  _David Renton_ / Red Pepper (London)
 
* SCALING COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
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  _George Gabriel _/ The Forge (Los Angeles)

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GERMANY

* BUS DRIVERS STRIKE
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  _Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf_ / Labor Notes (Brooklyn)
 
* ROOTS OF ANTI-PALESTINIAN FERVOR
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  _Leandros Fischer_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
 
* THE ATTACK ON THE PALESTINE CONGRESS
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  _Daphne Preston-Kendal_ / Le Monde diplomatique (Paris)

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ITALY

* CHARGES DROPPED FOR MIGRANT RESCUERS
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* FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE
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  _Lorenzo Tecleme_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
 
* ROSSANA ROSSANDA AT 100
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  _Ingar Solty_ / Jacobin

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FRANCE: FIRST PRIORITIES FOR THE LEFT
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_Olly Haynes_ / New Left Review (London)

The only way for _La France insoumise_ to prevail in this unfavourable
conjuncture and preserve its fragile hegemony over the other
progressive parties is to expand its electoral base ahead of the 2027
presidential elections. But there are competing theories of how to
achieve this, and deep uncertainties over the most viable strategic
direction.

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HUNGARY: FIGHTING ORBAN
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_Aram Shakkour and Bruno Magalhães_ / Revista Movimento (São
Paulo)

Present in youth struggles, the housing movement and the defense of
democratic agendas, _Szikra_ elected its first parliamentarian in the
last parliamentary elections. The party is also part of the Green Left
Alliance of Central and Eastern Europe, a coalition of organizations
founded around solidarity with Ukraine and criticism of the positions
of the bureaucratic left in the region. 

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PORTUGAL’S CARNATION REVOLUTION OF 1974
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_Vasco Esteves_ / Pressenza (Quito)

The 25th of April had this general theme of the three D’s:
“Decolonize, Democratize, and Develop”. Decolonization is
fundamental and linked to the general concept of freedom. Freedom was
essential for the people of the colonies to be able to choose their
destiny, and it was also essential for the Portuguese to be able to
choose a model of society in which to live better than before.

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ANNA ROZENSHTEIN: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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_Anatolii Dubovyk_ / Commons (Kyiv)

It went largely unnoticed that this year marked the 170th anniversary
of a woman whose name was once known to many: revolutionaries and
police officers in various European countries, medical specialists and
labor lawyers, labor movement activists and parliamentary politicians,
anarchists and Marxists, feminists and anti-fascists.

* Anti-Fascism
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* Europe
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* Greece
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* national strike
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* Spain
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* elections
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* Basque Country
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* Catalonia
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* Izquierda Unida
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* Sumar
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* United Kingdom
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* Labour Party
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* Green Party of England and Wales
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* community organizing
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* Germany
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* Transit Strike
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* Palestine
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* Anti-Communism
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* Palestine Congress
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* Italy
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* migrant rescuers
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* Fridays for Future
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* Rossana Rossanda
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* France
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* La France Insoumise
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* Hungary
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* Victor Orban
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* Szikra
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* Portugal
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* Carnation Revolution
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* Colonel Matos Gomes
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* Ukraine
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* Anna Rozenshtein
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