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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – BIG ELECTION NEWS
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July 10, 2024
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_ From France, Iran, Ireland, UK and Venezuela _
, Front page of the Communist daily l'Humanité, July 8, 2024: "Hope
reborn"
* Victory in France!
* Beating the Tories
* Sinn Féin On Top in Northern Ireland
* Venezuela: Power and Democracy
* Upset in Iran Election
* Kenya’s Grassroots Fury
* Peace Conference in Tel Aviv
* Cuba: Cold War Shadows
* Lumumba at 99
* Tony Benn on Democracy
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Victory in France!
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_Nessim Achouche_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
With 183 seats won, the new left-wing alliance _Nouveau Front
Populaire_ is the strongest group in the French National Assembly by
number of seats won. If the 13 elected unaligned “Divers Gauche”
deputies are added, the left-wing bloc will lead the parliament with
196 deputies. The far-right _Rassemblement National_ is in third
place behind Emmanuel Macron’s presidential majority _Ensemble_.
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BEATING THE TORIES
* THINGS JUST GOT MORE INTERESTING
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_Mike Phipps_ / Labour Hub (London)
* MAJORITY WITHOUT A MANDATE
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_Richard Seymour_ / New Left Review (London)
* THE GREEN PARTY: SOCIALISTS ON BIKES
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_Philip Proudfoot_ / Red Pepper (London)
* GAZA AND THE MUSLIM VOTE
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_Rayhan Uddin and Mohamed Hassan_ / Middle East Eye (London)
* VIDEO: WORD ON THE STREET
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_Richard Hames_ / Novara Media (London)
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SINN Féin ON TOP IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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_Kim Sengupta_ / The Independent (London)
One of the most significant successes in the general election is of
a party that will not be represented in the House of Commons. The
historic achievement, instead, will be used by Sinn Féin in its
campaign to get Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.
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VENEZUELA: POWER AND DEMOCRACY
* WASHINGTON’S SOFT POWER STRATEGIES
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_Andreína Chávez_ / Venezuelanalysis (Caracas)
* THE COMING ELECTION
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_Clodovaldo Hernández_ / Venezuelanalysis
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UPSET IN IRAN ELECTION
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_Pezhman Tahavori_ / IranWire (London)
Reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian became the president with
16,384,000 votes, while Saeed Jalili won 13,538,000 votes. The
increase in voter turnout in the second phase was unprecedented, as
typically participation in the second phase is lower than in the
first. Electing Pezeshkian indicates popular displeasure with the
hardline Islamic Revolution Front.
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KENYA’S GRASSROOTS FURY
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_Lena Gutheil_ / The Conversation (Waltham MA)
The dramatic scenes unfolding in Nairobi on 25 and 26 June 2024 are
the latest episode in Kenya’s tumultuous protest history. [Kenyan
President William Ruto on July 5 ordered significant cuts in the
federal budget along with other government reforms to pay off a
crushing debt burden in a move seen as a concession to popular
disapproval of a tax bill that sparked the violent protests.]
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REPORT: PEACE CONFERENCE IN TEL AVIV
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_Haggai Matar_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)
With around 6,000 attendees, the event was the country’s largest
anti-war gathering since October 7, outside of street protests. It
brought together Jewish and Palestinian survivors, displaced persons,
hostages, former prisoners, bereaved families, activists, security
officials, religious and cultural figures, intellectuals, and current
and former parliamentarians to echo a common commitment.
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CUBA: COLD WAR SHADOWS
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_Rafael Hernández_ / OnCuba News (Miami)
Even today some academics talk about U.S. Cuba policy as if they were
“sanctions” aimed at promoting democracy and freedom. That is, to
cause “changes on the island.” These “sanctions”, corrected
and increased to the maximum possible, have been maintained for more
than sixty years, having rather counterproductive effects concerning
their declared objectives.
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LUMUMBA AT 99
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_Mohamed Kheir Omer_ / African Arguments (London)
The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly the Belgian Congo,
celebrated its 64th Independence Day on June 30. On this occasion we
look back at the life and times of Patrice Lumumba through Stuart
Reid’s _The Lumumba Plot_, which uncovers the intricate and brutal
assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected
Prime Minister of Congo.
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TONY BENN ON DEMOCRACY
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_Interview by Matt Kennard_ / Tribune (London)
When we began to get democracy in the nineteenth century, what
happened was that power was transferred from the market to the polling
station, from the wallet to the ballot, and people who were poor could
vote for hospitals and schools and museums and art galleries which
previously were the prerogative of the rich. And I think democracy is
what really frightens the guys at the top.
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* UK elections
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* Keir Starmer
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* Gaza
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* Muslims in UK
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* Jeremy Corbyn
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* Northern Ireland
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* Sinn Fein
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* Venezuela
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* Iran
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* Masoud Pezeshkian
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* Kenya
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* Mideast peace
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* Cuba
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* Cold War
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* Congo
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* Patrice Lumumba
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* Tony Benn
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