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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 14, 2024  
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August 14, 2024
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_ News and analyses from movements and parties around the world _

Papua, Indonesia: Awyu and Moi community action in front of Supreme
Court. Credit, Greenpeace

 

* Gaza War’s Impact on the European Left
* Thailand: Rebels Without a Pause
* UK Antiracist Protests
* Guatemala on the Razor’s Edge
* Papua Tribes Fight For Their Land
* Bolivia: The Failed Coup and Conflicted Leadership
* Serbia’s Party of the Radical Left
* Nigeria Labour Congress Defies the Government
* Resistance Art in Bangladesh
* New Left Formation in Venezuela Prompted By Election

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GAZA WAR’S IMPACT ON THE EUROPEAN LEFT
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_Nessim Achouche_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

Ahead of the recent French elections, pundits widely expected voters
to punish France Insoumise for its strong pro-Gaza stance. It didn’t
happen. Around Europe, left-wing voters are galvanized by parties who
defy the pro-Israel mainstream.

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THAILAND: REBELS WITHOUT A PAUSE
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Khaosod English (Bangkok)

After the Move Forward Party was ordered to dissolve by the
Constitutional Court, all 143 Move Forward Party MPs have registered
as members of the People’s Party with 100% participation on August
9, 2024. This is similar to when the Future Forward Party was
dissolved and changed its name to the Move Forward Party in 2020.

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UK ANTIRACIST PROTESTS

* STANDING UP TO RACISM AGAIN
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 / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
 
* TAKE A LOOK AT THE AUGUST 7 DEMOS
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GUATEMALA ON THE RAZOR
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_José Álvarez Díaz_ / Equal Times (Brussels)

Arévalo was the first Guatemalan president to mention Indigenous
peoples in his inaugural address, and his subordinates have kept their
commitment to meet with a group of Indigenous authorities every month.
But after half a dozen meetings, they are still busy with formalities
“and a lot of bureaucracy,” when “the needs of the people are
well known, there is no need for so much protocol”.

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PAPUA TRIBES FIGHT FOR THEIR LAND
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_Barnaby Lo_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

The image “All Eyes on Papua” has been spreading across social
media. It’s turning attention to Papua, a province of Indonesia. The
slogan refers to the campaign of the indigenous people of Awyu and Moi
in Papua, whose forest is at risk of being cleared for palm oil
plantations.

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BOLIVIA: THE FAILED COUP AND CONFLICTED 
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_Pablo Stefanoni_ / Spectre (Brooklyn)

Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace have
been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The
failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and
internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis
Arce’s administration, itself large the result of internal discord
within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party.

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SERBIA
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THE RADICAL LEFT
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_Marko Crnobrnja and Sopo Japaridze_ / LeftEast

Ever since the fall of socialism, Serbia has had virtually no
left-wing parties. The legacy of the workers’ struggle and radical
politics, reaching to the 1870s, had been up to that point upheld by
the League of Communists of Serbia, a national branch of the ruling
party of Yugoslavia. In 1990 the League became the Socialist Party of
Serbia. Left-wing politics had to start from scratch.

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NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS
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the Government
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_Mary Izuaka and Ayodeji Adegboyega_ / Premium Times (Abuja,
Nigeria)

The NLC noted that the government cannot hope to stop a democratic
protest by threatening the people who are already losing their lives
to the “unrepentant massacre of unarmed protesters” by the police
but by concrete actions and reasonable dialogue.

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RESISTANCE ART IN BANGLADESH
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_Rezwan_ / Global Voices (Amsterdam)

In the context of the shrinking space for freedom of expression,
Bangladesh has a rich history of street art that reflects various
social, economic and political crises in the country. During the
protests, numerous graffiti artworks emerged on the walls and streets
of major cities. 

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NEW LEFT FORMATION IN VENEZUELA PROMPTED BY ELECTION

Tribune Popular (Caracas) 
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This Monday, August 12, a group of political, social and workers’
organizations announced the constitution of the Popular Democratic
Front; an initiative in defense of constitutional rights and
guarantees, which arises after the serious political crisis that has
left the electoral process of last July 28.

The Popular Democratic Front is promoted by the La Otra Campaña
platform, the Communist Party of Venezuela, the People-Centered Party,
Anti-Imperialist Voices, the Popular Alternative Movement, the Popular
Historical Block, the National Working Class Struggle Front, the
EnComún collective and the PPT-APR.

It is “an open effort and in the process of construction,” their
spokespeople explained at a press conference.

In a document presented to public opinion, they specified that their
actions are “part of the unrestricted defense of the Constitution of
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; their charter of human rights;
their guarantees for the exercise of self-determination and national
sovereignty; their economic model that seeks a fair distribution of
wealth; and their political model, deeply democratic, that stimulates
the participation and protagonism of the people.”

In the statement, they assured that the organizations that are part of
this front, were able to verify “in polling stations in different
territories of the country, where Chavismo was a majority in the
recent past, the defeat of President Maduro.”

The activists rejected the repression against popular mobilizations
and denounced the criminalization processes carried out by the
Government.

“It is evident that the indignation generated in the popular sectors
by the official announcement of the results of the presidential
election will not disappear due to the repression, but on the
contrary, this new form of violence against protesters will stir up
anger and further delegitimize the criminal justice system and the
State in general,” they explained.

* Gaza
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* European Left
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* Thailand
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* People's Party
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* United Kingdom
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* antiracism movement
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* Guatemala
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* Papua
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* Indonesia
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* Indigenous peoples
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* forests
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* Bolivia
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* Movimiento al Socialismo
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* Serbia
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* Party of the Radical Left
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* Nigeria
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* Nigerian Labor Congress
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* Bangladesh
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* street art
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* Venezuela
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* Popular Democratic Front
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