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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – SEPTEMBER 18, 2024  
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_ Is the European left taking a dive on immigrants’ rights? _

Streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras on September 14. Credit, Libre Party


 

* CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury (1952-2024)
* The European Left and Immigration
* Missing Voices of Climate Defenders
* Hondurans Rally for Xiomara Castro
* Israel’s General Strike
* Working Class Sisterhood
* New Popular Front Tells Macron ‘Up Yours!’
* An Epic Life in the Fight Against Apartheid
* Women in the Forefront: Guatemala, Thailand, France
* Former World Leaders Write to Biden About Cuba

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CPI(M) GENERAL SECRETARY SITARAM YECHURY (1952-2024)

• LIFELONG COMMUNIST
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  _A M Jigeesh_ / The Hindu (Mumbai)

• TRIBUTES
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 _Namita Singh_ / The Independent (London) 

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THE EUROPEAN LEFT AND IMMIGRATION

_Roger Martelli_ / Regards (Paris)

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Running after a “public opinion” that is cut with the theses of
the extreme right, the left ends up taking the migratory "problem”
for granted.

In Germany, the Social Democratic Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has decided
to strengthen border controls to combat illegal immigration. In
Denmark, which in 1952 was the first country in the world to ratify
the Geneva Convention on Refugees, the socialists began to assume a
migration policy that makes their country a champion of migration
restrictions.

Is it the reality of social problems that drives this choice? No. We
resolve to do so because the extreme right has imposed its
anti-immigration credo as a matter of course. And, as always when it
scores points, we are capable of explaining that the questions it asks
are relevant and that they must simply be answered differently. In
Germany, Sahra Wagenknecht has been saying this for a long time, even
though she was a figure on the left wing of Die Linke. And her words
found favorable echoes in us at the time, including within La France
insoumise.

In any case, we are back at the starting point, at a time when the
European political scene is tilting to the right. We must not give
weapons to the extreme right. Researchers, associative activists,
experts in the migration file can always explain that migratory
movements have nothing of a tsunami, that the “great replacement”
is an absurdity, that the rise in migratory flows is a global
phenomenon, etc., those responsible do not care: if “public
opinion” thinks that immigration is a “problem”, it must be
treated as such.

As François Héran writes in _Immigration: the great denial_ (2023):

‘The new migration policy will have to balance the interests of all
instead of pushing the cursor all the way in one direction. The
challenge is considerable: anticipate the “migration crises”
announced by the front-line bodies; mobilize the necessary human
resources as soon as possible (and not only in the form of precarious
jobs); recall successes as well as the failures of integration; salute
the major role of immigrants in “essential” jobs (and not only in
times of pandemic); publicly relay that work like that of the OECD in
its 2001 report, demonstrates that immigration brings more to the
public budget than it costs it; break with a perverse logic that would
make integration — or even assimilation — a condition of entry
into the territory, while integration into the nation has always been
a long-term process, taking one or two generations and requiring
mutual effort on all sides. In short, we need to get out of denial.’

It will be agreed here that the reality of migrations does not lend
itself well to the game of extreme oppositions, to the sanctification
of walls and to the ethical affirmation of “no borders”. But when,
on the left, we begin to explain that “we cannot welcome all the
misery of the world”, we quickly end up getting caught in a gear
that, in the name of realism, leads to successive setbacks and, at the
end, to the very abandonment of values. Because, since increased
border control is by no means a solution, committing to it inexorably
leads to having to go further and further in the repressive direction.
This is no problem if, as on the extreme right, we believe that the
national fence is in itself a value.

But if we refuse to do so, we must have ambitions other than those of
doing better than the right or the extreme right and, in no case, can
we suggest that voluntary human management of migratory flows is
primarily based on technical means of control. To “welcome” —
and how not to do it when we know that migration will continue to
increase on a global scale? — we need a society compatible with the
requirement of sharing, solidarity, absolute imperative of human
rights, inclusion and not exclusion.

If the left is not able to bring itself to this level of project, if
it does not install the narrative of this necessary and possible
society, it will lose itself, and it will lose in the field of values
as much as in that of realism.

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MISSING VOICES OF CLIMATE DEFENDERS
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Global Witness (London)

We are land and environmental defenders. And when we speak up many of
us are attacked for doing so. This report shows that in every region
of the world, people who speak out and call attention to the harm
caused by extractive industries – like deforestation, pollution and
land grabbing – face violence, discrimination and threats. 

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HONDURAS FIGHTS BACK

• THOUSANDS SHOW SUPPORT FOR LIBRE PARTY
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  _Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

• US PRESSURE AND COUP THREAT
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 _W.T. Whitney_ / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)

• ECO-ACTIVIST SHOT
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ISRAEL
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GENERAL STRIKE
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_Assaf S. Bondy, Erez Maggor and Jonathan Preminger_ / Jacobin
(Brooklyn)

This almost unprecedented declaration was a response to growing
pressure on the powerful labor federation Histadrut to support those
protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and demanding an
agreement that would bring home the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in
the Gaza Strip. 

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WORKING CLASS SISTERHOOD
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Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (New York)

The TUED South Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Meeting in Bali,
Indonesia, highlighted women’s leadership and raised several gender
issues. The regional meeting reflected the understanding that the
Public Pathway is feminist, working class and internationalist. A
feminist approach to a just energy transition deals with the question
of the ownership of energy and the need for democratic control.

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NEW POPULAR FRONT TELLS MACRON
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_Filippo Ortona_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

As soon as Michel Barnier’s appointment became official, La France
Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivered a short but pointed
message: “It will not be a member of the NFP – which came in first
place in the elections – who will appear before the deputies, but
instead a member of a party that came last in the legislative
elections.” 

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AN EPIC LIFE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST APARTHEID
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_Vishwas Satgar_ / The Conversation (Walham MA)

The former South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who
has died aged 75, was a national liberation and post-apartheid
leader. Today with majoritarian African nationalism paying lip
service to non-racialism or worse expressing a reverse racism, the
legacy of the likes of Gordhan gives us all a basis to advance a
principled unity and commitment to radical non-racialism.

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WOMEN IN THE FOREFRONT

• GUATEMALA: DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY
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  _Laura Carlsen_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)

• THAILAND: DEFIANCE AND DETERMINATION
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  _Nitchakarn Rakwongrit (Memee)_ / International Center on
Nonviolent Conflict (Washington DC) 

• FRANCE: MASS PROTEST AGAINST RAPE CULTURE
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FORMER WORLD LEADER
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WRITE TO BIDEN ABOUT CUBA
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_Carla Gloria Colomé_ / EL PAÍS (Madrid)

Dozens of former presidents and prime ministers from around the world
have signed a letter in which they convey to U.S. President Joe Biden,
a few months before the end of his term, a request made by others in
the past: to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism
in which it was included under Donald Trump, reversing Barack
Obama’s attempt to remove it from this list. 

* India
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* Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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* Sitaram Yechury
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* European Left
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* Immigrants
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* climate defenders
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* Honduras
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* Xiomara Castro
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* Juan López
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* Israel
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* general strike
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* Histadrut
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* Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
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* Public Pathway
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* New Popular Front
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* France
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* Emmanuel Macron
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* South Africa
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* Pravin Gordhan
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* Guatemala
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* Thailand
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* Gisèle Pelicot
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* Women
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