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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JUNE 12, 2024
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June 12, 2024
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_ More election season news and views _
Samsung workers declare their strike at corporate headquarters in
Seoul, May 29. Credit, Yonhap
* India, Modi and Europe
* Early EP Election Reports
* Samsung Workers Make History
* Purge in UK Labour Party
* Why is a Chilean Mayor Facing Imprisonment?
* Italian Anti-Fascist Wins Election — and Freedom
* Sahrawis Fight On
* Communist Parties’ Post Election Statements
* Cuba: Solve, Struggle, Invent
* D-Day and the Anti-Fascist Revolution
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INDIA, MODI AND EUROPE
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Social Europe (Berlin)
This election has changed the reality on the ground, in all sorts of
ways. The BJP is now dependent for the government’s survival on
pragmatic allies which do not share its enthusiasm for Hindu
majoritarianism. Western governments and the European Union must
realise that pretending that things are better than they are,
especially on bread-and-butter issues, rarely works for long.
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EARLY EP ELECTION REPORTS
* HARSH RECKONING
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_C.J. Polychroniou_ / Truthout (Sacramento)
* LEFT GAINS IN NORDIC SEATS
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_Cynthia Kroet_ / Euronews (Lyon)
* WAGENKNECHT WINS SIX SEATS
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_ Ben Knight_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
* FRENCH LEFT FORMS ELECTORAL BLOC
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_Romain Brunet_ / France 24 (Paris)
* YOLANDA DÍAZ RESIGNS SUMAR LEADERSHIP
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_Ben Pawlowski_ / The Olive Press (Malaga, Spain)
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SAMSUNG WORKERS MAKE HISTORY
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
Staff at Samsung Electronics in South Korea have taken industrial
action for the first time as part of a six-month campaign for better
pay. Son Woo-mok, head of the National Samsung Electronics Union,
which represents tens of thousands of people, said that employees were
taking their paid leave entitlements simultaneously on Friday.
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PURGE IN UK LABOUR PARTY
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_Taj Ali_ / The Nation (New York)
The UK news was not dominated by tales of Tory collapse or the Labour
Party’s forward march. Instead, it was Labour’s attempted
purge of Diane Abbott, Britain’s first Black female MP, that led
the headlines. Rather than spend his time confronting Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak, party leader Keir Starmer, once again, went to war with
his real enemy: the left of his own party.
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WHY IS A CHILEAN MAYOR FACING IMPRISONMENT?
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_W.T. Whitney Jr._ / People’s World (New York)
Judge Paulina Moya ruled that Communist mayor Daniel Jadue of
Recoleta, Chile, would be imprisoned “preventively” on charges of
bribery, maladministration, tax fraud, and bankruptcy. The court’s
decision had to do with the “people’s pharmacy” that Jadue
devised for Recoleta in 2015. It also involves the spread of
people’s pharmacies throughout Chile.
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ITALIAN ANTI-FASCIST WINS ELECTION — AND FREEDOM
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Ilaria Salis, the 39-year-old Italian anti-fascist teacher, who has
denounced the inhumane and degrading conditions she endured in Viktor
Orban’s far-right Hungary, has been elected in the 2024 European
elections. The 39-year-old Italian teacher received 173,000 votes,
and reportedly should be released from Hungarian justice as soon as
the European Parliament officially announces her election.
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SAHRAWIS FIGHT ON
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_Alex MacDonald_ / Middle East Eye (London)
For decades, Western Saharan refugees have pinned their hopes for
brighter futures on the eventual return to their homeland, but at the
moment that prospect may be further away than ever. Analysts say the
fighting has become hopelessly one-sided as a result of the advanced
drone technology Morocco uses, which the Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic army have little or no way of countering.
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COMMUNIST PARTIES’ POST ELECTION STATEMENTS
* SOUTH AFRICA
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_Political Bureau_ / SACP (Johannesburg)
* CP OF INDIA (MARXIST)
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/ Peoples Democracy (New Delhi)
* CP OF INDIA
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/ New Age (New Delhi)
* CPIML (LIBERATION)
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/ ML Update (New Delhi)
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CUBA: SOLVE, STRUGGLE, INVENT
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_Rachel Nolan_ / London Review of Books
In order to write about ‘ordinary Cubans’, or to gather oral
histories, interviewees must be able to speak freely. But has there
been freedom of speech in revolutionary Cuba? It depends on who is
trying to speak, about what and when. Since the revolution’s
earliest days, the loudest expression of Cuban free speech – at
least in a register audible to foreign ears – has been migration.
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D-Day and the Anti-Fascist Revolution
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_Owen Dowling and editorial staff_ / Tribune (London)
As Europe’s right-wing politicians exploit the 80th anniversary of
D-Day for their reactionary ends, Tribune remembers its significance
for the progressive and anti-fascist revolutions which followed.
* India
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* Narendra Modi
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* Europe
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* elections
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* European Parliment
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* Socialist People's Party
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* Sahra Wagenknecht
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* Germany
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* France
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* French Left
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* Spain
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* Sumar
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* Yolanda Díaz
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* Samsung
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* South Korea
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* Samsung strike
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* National Samsung Electronics Union
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* UK
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* Labour Party
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* Dianne Abbott
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* Keir Starmer
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* Chile
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* Daniel Jadue
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* Communist Party of Chile
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* Ilaria Salis
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* Hungary
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* Western Sahara
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* Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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* South African Communist Party
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* Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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* Communist Party of India
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* CPIML-L
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* Cuba
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* D-Day
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