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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 15, 2024  
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May 15, 2024
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_ Matters of life and death _

Grenada PM Dickon Mitchell is greeted by Cuban President Miguel
Díaz-Canel in Havana. Credit, Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo

 

* We Have a Deadline
* Eqbal Ahmad: Out-Organize the Enemy!
* Ukraine’s Unions
* Video: Strike Two for Miliei
* The Opposition in Zimbabwe
* Resisters Exchange: Iran and Russia
* Left Parties 
* Terry Eagleton: In Defense of Student Protest
* Remembering Điện Biên Phủ
* Grenadian Prime Minister Visits Cuba

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WE HAVE A DEADLINE
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_João Camargo and Leonor Canadas_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)

It is time we—the left in social movements as well as the left in
unions or political parties—come to terms with our own failures and
face the present and future head-on, with courage and confidence. If
we don't organise for revolt and rebel now, there very simply might
not be a chance to do it in the future.

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EQBAL AHMAD: OUT-ORGANIZE THE ENEMY!
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_Arun Kundnani_ / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)

In 1969, at the Association of Arab-American University Graduates
convention, Eqbal Ahmad delivered a stark message: the Palestinian
liberation movement would fail if it relied solely on armed struggle.
He argued for a broader strategy, combining military with
political and ideological tactics. Today, that goal might finally be
within reach.

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UKRAINE’S UNIONS
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_Inès Gil_ / Equal Times (Brussels)

The unions are no longer able to talk to their members in the
territories currently occupied by Russia, the equivalent of about 20
per cent of Ukraine. Workers in these regions also face violations of
their rights, which the International Labour Organization (ILO)
denounced in a briefing published in May 2023.

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VIDEO: STRIKE TWO FOR MILIEI
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Al Jazeera (Doha)

Major trade unions in Argentina have gone on general strike for the
second time since president Javier Milei took office five months ago.
The Parliament has discussed a new bill that unions say weakens labour
protections.

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THE OPPOSITION IN ZIMBABWE
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_Paidamoyo Muzulu_ / Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)

Leftist Zimbabweans are on the crossroads. A decision has to be made
whether to be swallowed by the tide of liberalism or join the
bandwagon of ideologically bankrupt populism. Yes, there is also the
third option, leftist reorganising and getting back to the basics.

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RESISTERS EXCHANGE: IRAN AND RUSSIA
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_Iuliia Gataulina and Mina Shahmoradi_ / LeftEast

When talking about our activisms, we enrich each other on the
particularities of our situations. At the same time, we also realize
that to some extent it is beneficial to go beyond specificities and
instead to think about the root causes of oppression, the common
grounds of both oppression and liberation. 

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Left Parties

* BELGIUM
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  _Nico Biver_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
 
* DENMARK [[link removed]]
  _Frederikke Hellemann and Duroyan Fertl_ / Rosa Luxemburg
Stiftung
 
* MEXICO
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  _Anti-capitalist and Anti-patriarchal Left Bloc_ / New Politics
(New York)
 
* SOUTH AFRICA
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  _Zabalaza for Socialism_ / New Politics

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TERRY EAGLETON: IN DEFENSE OF STUDENT PROTEST
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_Terry Eagleton_ / UnHerd (London)

Being hugely in debt, as almost all students are these days, inclines
you to conservatism. It ties you to the status quo and makes you less
likely to step out of line. Yet in a bleak season for political
radicals, dissent has broken out on a sizeable scale in those bastions
of corporate capitalism and managerial gobbledygook which until
recently were dimly recognisable as universities. 

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REMEMBERING ĐIỆN BIÊN PHỦ

* IMPERIALISM DEFEATED
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Mullen_ / London Review of Books
 
* THE WINNING SIDE
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Meaney_ / New Left Review (London)
 
* ART OF PEOPLE’S WAR
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GRENADIAN PRIME MINISTER VISITS CUBA
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_Jorge Luna_ / Prensa Latina (Havana)

The permanent legacy of Grenadian leader Maurice Bishop, assassinated
in 1983, was recalled here during a recent official visit by Prime
Minister of Grenada Dickon Mitchell on the 45th anniversary of
diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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* Global left
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* Palestine
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* Eqbal Ahmad
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* Ukraine
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* unions
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* Argentina
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* national strike
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* Zimbabwe
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* Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
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* Iran
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* Russia
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* Workers' Party Belgium
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* Denmark
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* Red-Green Alliance
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* Mexico
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* South Africa
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* Zabalaza for Socialism
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* Student protests
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* Terry Eagleton
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* Vietnam
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* Điện Biên Phủ
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* Grenada
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* Cuba
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* Dickon Mitchell
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