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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 8, 2024  
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May 8, 2024
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* Militarism Here and Now
* Lifers
* Socialism Criminalized in Russia
* Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
* Vietnam’s Bamboo Diplomacy
* Reports From Spain
* Youth and the Mexican Election
* Kwame Nkrumah Today
* UK Strike Wave
* Center-Left Electoral Front in Bengal

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MILITARISM HERE AND NOW
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_Nick Gottlieb_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

The climate movement has largely ignored a growing body of evidence
showing that militarism is, as sociologist Prof Kenneth Gould
describes, “the single most ecologically destructive human
endeavour.” Now is the time for that to change.

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LIFERS

* _LUCIANA CASTELLINA
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il manifesto Global (Rome)
 
* _BORIS KAGARLITSKY
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* _ELKE KAHR
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Mayor (London)
 
* _BRASÍLIO PRIPRÁ_
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/ Mongabay (Menlo Park CA)
 
* _JUDY REBICK
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rabble.ca (Toronto)

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SOCIALISM CRIMINALIZED IN RUSSIA
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_Ilya Budraitskis, Kirill Medvedev and Sasha Davydova_ / Posle

On April 5, 2024, the Russian Socialist Movement was declared
“foreign agent.” What has been its role in Russian left-wing
politics? What is the reason behind its “foreign agent” status?
Together with its members, Posle.media recalls the history of the
movement in the past decade.

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LABOR HOLDS THE LINE IN ARGENTINA
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_Liam Crisan_ / Inequality.org (Washington DC)

Argentina’s labor movement has quickly mobilized widespread and
effective opposition to Milei’s policies. While strikes and protests
continue, we can already begin to draw lessons on resisting the
far-right’s rise worldwide.

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VIETNAM’S BAMBOO DIPLOMACY
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_Stefan Mentschel_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

A resolution passed at the Thirteenth Party Congress of the Communist
Party in early 2021 states that their aim is to “improve the quality
and effectiveness of foreign affairs and international integration”.
Aside from ensuring peace and stability, Vietnam’s top priority is
to safeguard its independence and self-reliance and to protect its
territorial integrity.

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REPORTS FROM SPAIN

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  _Eoghan Gilmartin_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
 
* MONDRAGÓN
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  _Oliver Balch_ / The Guardian (London)
 
* CATALONIA
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  _Gerard Escaich Folch_ / Catalan News (Barcelona)

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YOUTH AND THE MEXICAN ELECTION
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_Levi Vonk_ / Wilson Center (Washington DC)

This summer, Claudia Sheinbaum, AMLO’s named successor, is poised
to become Mexico’s first female president. Sheinbaum, in actuality,
is not significantly younger than AMLO. But in spirit she represents a
new and fresh face for the party. Whereas AMLO’s vision for Mexico
has always been firmly—one might even say
petulantly—nationalistic, Sheinbaum’s outlook is more
international. 

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KWAME NKRUMAH TODAY
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_Yao Graham and Anakwa Dwamena_ / Africa is a Country (Brooklyn)

One of the key lessons from Ghana’s development experience under
Nkrumah is linked directly to his commitment to a pan-African solution
to the challenges of under-development. The post-Cold War global
economic framework has made the regional and continental even more key
in any serious African project of economic transformation. 

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UK STRIKE WAVE
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_John Westmoreland_ / Counterfire (London)

The political nature of the strikes should have led to victory. The
obvious path to victory was to join up the strikes in an all-out
assault on neoliberalism and to launch a working-class counter
offensive. The unity of politics and economics across the various
sectors of the movement was pointing towards meaningful working-class
struggle.

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Center-Left Electoral Front in Bengal
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_Joydeep Sarkar_ / The Wire (New Delhi)

The Left-Congress alliance here could be the start of a deeper
coalition, locals feel. It is clear that this is not just a friendship
between the Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and the
CPI(M)’s Mohammad Salim, but that workers too are keen to fight
together and are often seen working in tandem.

* Militarism
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* Climate
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* Luciana Castellina
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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* Elke Kahr
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* Brasílio Priprá
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* Judy Rebick
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* Russia
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* Russian Socialist Movement
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* Argentina
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* Labor
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* Vietnam
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* Spain
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* Sumar
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* Mondragon
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* Catalonia
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* Mexico
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* elections
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Kwame Nkrumah
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* Ghana
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* UK
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* strike
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* India
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* West Bengal
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