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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 28, 2024
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August 28, 2024
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_ Mass protests break out in Indonesia _
"Don't wreck democracy!" A demonstration in front of House of
Representative building in Jakarta, against the controversial changes
to election laws. Credit, Donal Husni/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
* Lessons of Bangladesh Uprising
* Macron Refuses to Recognize United Left
* Eye on Palestine
* Coordinated Climate Activists Shut Airports
* More on Venezuela Election
* Protests Across Indonesia
* Defending Water in Montevideo and Mexico City
* Maasai Fight Evictions
* Iran: Political Prisoners Face Execution
* The Legacy of Arno Mayer
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LESSONS OF BANGLADESH UPRISING
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / International Development Economics Associates (New
Delhi)
The popular insurrection that ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina and her Awami League government offers important lessons for
the international community and neighboring India. While the unrest
was undoubtedly fueled by the regime’s repressive and increasingly
anti-democratic tactics, the underlying causes of public discontent
are often overlooked.
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MACRON REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE UNITED LEFT
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_Paul Kirby_ / BBC (London)
Some of France's left-wing leaders have backed protests against
President Emmanuel Macron, after he refused to nominate a government
led by the left-wing New Popular Front alliance (NFP). The four-party
coalition won the most seats in last month's parliamentary elections
and said its candidate, Paris civil servant Lucie Castets, should be
named prime minister.
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EYE ON PALESTINE
• ARMED RESISTANCE IN JENIN AND TULKAREM
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_Fatima AbdulKarim_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)
• DISCONTENT WITH HAMAS
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_Mahmoud Mushtaha_ / +972
• THE EXHAUSTED LEFT
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_Francesco Saverio Leopardi_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
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COORDINATED CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SHUT AIRPORTS
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_Rosie Frost_ / Euronews (Lyon)
Flights have been grounded at airports around Europe after protesters
glued themselves to runways. High Court injunctions have been issued
at several UK airports banning protesters from their sites. It comes
as climate activists begin a summer of potential flight disruption
around Europe calling for an end to fossil fuels.
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MORE ON VENEZUELA ELECTION
• THE CASE AGAINST MADURO
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Hetland_ / New Left Review (London)
• ‘VENEZUELA HAS SPOKEN’
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_Ed Newman_ / Radio Havana Cuba
• NOT LOSING SIGHT OF IMPERIALISM
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_Ricardo Vaz_ / Venezuelanalysis (Caracas)
• FROM A LEFT HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
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_Antonio Plessmann and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)
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PROTESTS ACROSS INDONESIA
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in multiple cities
across Indonesia to protest against attempted revisions to the
country’s election law. Indonesia’s parliament postponed ratifying
changes to the election rules on Thursday as protesters attempted to
tear down the gates of the legislature in the capital, Jakarta.
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DEFENDING WATER IN MONTEVIDEO AND MEXICO CITY
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_Florencia Pagola, Carolina Bas Lemos, Madeleine Wattenbarger and
Eliana Gilet_ / NACLA Report (New York)
As the climate crisis advances across Latin America, both cities find
women on the front lines, defending their communities’ access to
water. In Montevideo, during a four-month water emergency, water
heaters broke due to high salinity, and people with hypertension,
pregnant women, and children were warned to not drink from the tap.
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Maasai Fight Eviction
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_Shola Lawal_ / Al Jazeera
The thousands of Maasai in Ngorongoro and Loliondo in Tanzania are
again facing eviction. Over the years, attempts to evict Maasai have
become common. Community members are on a campaign to get
international donors to defund their government and stop rights
violations.
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IRAN: POLITICAL PRISONERS FACE EXECUTION
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_Deepa Parent and Annie Kelly_ / The Guardian (London)
There are fears for the fates of women’s rights activists imprisoned
in Iran after a surge in executions since the election of Iran’s new
president, Masoud Pezeshkian. At least 87 people
were reportedly executed in July, with another 29 executed on one
day in August. The mass executions included Reza Rasaei, a young man
sentenced for his participation in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests.
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THE LEGACY OF ARNO MAYER
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_Mathias Fuelling_ / Verso (London)
Arno J. Mayer was the last of the great Jewish American intellectuals
who were refugees from fascism in Europe. For Mayer, the history of
the ruling class is intimately connected to the structure of the state
and foreign policy, and to global politics. In Mayer’s analytic,
domestic conflicts are the main elements impacting the decisions the
ruling class makes in a given country regarding foreign policy.
* Bangladesh
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* France
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* New Popular Front
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* Emmanuel Macron
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* Palestine
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* West Bank
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* Hamas
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* Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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* Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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* Climate Activists
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* Europe
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* Venezuela
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* Venezuelan Elections
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* Nicolas Maduro
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* ALBA movements
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* Indonesia
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* water defenders
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* Mexico
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* Uruguay
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* Maasai
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* Tanzania
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* Iran
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* Political Prisoners
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* Arno J. Mayer
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