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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – OCTOBER 2, 2024  
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October 2, 2024
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_ News and analyses from parties and movements worldwide _

Amilcar Cabral, African revolutionary. Credit, OSPAAAL

 

* Taking on the Right
* Behind the Left’s Victory in Sri Lanka
* Russian Thinkers Examine Today’s Imperialisms
* Iran: Mine Disaster Sparks Worker Solidarity
* Left Think Tanks on Venezuela
* Nasrallah’s Death Changed Everything
* Amilcar Cabral at 100
* Armenian Feminists Challenge Sexual Violence
* Making Good Trouble in Gambia
* Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Over in Mexico

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TAKING ON THE RIGHT
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_Amandla! Collective_ / Amandla! (Cape Town)

The brutal truth is that, with very few exceptions, the right is
capturing the mood of dissatisfaction much more effectively than the
Left. In South Africa, we have two major problems. Firstly, the key
social force, organised labour, is largely absent from the scene. The
second problem is that the space vacated by labour has been occupied
by a motley collection of political forces.

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BEHIND THE LEFT’S VICTORY IN SRI LANKA
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_Janaka Biyanwila_ / Green Left (Sydney)

A working-class party, the People’s Liberation Front (Janatha
Vimukthi Peramuna, JVP), gained power for the first time, under the
coalition National People’s Power (Jathika Jana Balawegaya,
NPP). One of the NPP’s key themes was the fight against corruption,
nepotism, economic waste and mismanagement. This echoed the slogan of
the 2022 uprising, “system change”.

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RUSSIAN THINKERS EXAMINE TODAY’S IMPERIALISMS

 • _BORIS KAGARLITSKY_
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 • _ILYA MATVEEV AND FEDERICO FUENTES_
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IRAN: MINE DISASTER SPARKS WORKER SOLIDARITY
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Free Them Now 

The tragedy of the Tabas Madanjoo coal mine that exploded on September
21st and led to the catastrophic death of more than 50 miners has
attracted the attention of the entire society, and the solidarity with
the miners and the expression of sympathy with their families take on
more social and popular dimensions. 

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MAKING GOOD TROUBLE IN GAMBIA
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_Phil Wilmot and Alieu Bah_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)

Alieu Bah, an organizer who helped bring an end to coup leader
Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule in Gambia, explains the importance of
agreeing on a common purpose and demystifying despots. “Although
Gambian organizers still have a long journey to traverse, we can learn
how they protected the vote and put a definitive end to one man’s
grip on power.”

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ARMENIAN FEMINISTS CHALLENGE SEXUAL VIOLENCE
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_Teresa Di Mauro_ / Meduza (Riga)

The Women’s Support Center (WSC) in Yerevan, an advocacy and support
group for domestic violence victims, was established in 2010 with
funding from the Armenian diaspora and international organizations.
Together with other anti-violence groups, the WSC also co-founded the
Coalition to Stop Violence against Women to promote systemic change.

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LEFT THINK TANKS ON VENEZUELA AND DEMOCRACY

 • _EDGARDO LANDER_
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 • _ECOSOCIAL AND INTERCULTURAL PACT OF THE SOUTH_
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Policy Studies (Washington DC)

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NASRALLAH’S DEATH CHANGED EVERYTHING
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_Pasquale Porciello_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

Throughout Friday night, the Israeli Air Force continued to bomb
Dahieh, the Beirut neighborhood where Nasrallah was killed. People
fear a repeat of what happened in Gaza, and there are serious grounds
for that fear. Last year, not long after the war began, Israeli
Defense Minister Gallant had made this exact threat: “What we can do
in Gaza, we can do in Beirut.”

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AMILCAR CABRAL AT 100
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_Balasingham Skanthakumar_ / Against the Current (Detroit)

Anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla
warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and
internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists
of the 20th century. Cabral and five others including his
half-brother Luís founded what became the African Party of the
Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.

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CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM TAKES OVER IN MEXICO

_Miguel A. Vázquez de la Rosa_ / El MuroMX (Oaxaca)

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A legitimate daughter of 1968, educated in the tradition of the Latin
American left, Claudia Sheinbaum has more than enough certificates to
prove her activism in various social causes in the country. From her
participation in the movement of politically disappeared people led by
Rosario Ibarra, to her famous foray into the University Student
Council (CEU 1986) of the UNAM. The first female president of Mexico
boasts of her political origins: “We come from a social movement, I
am part of a historical movement.”

In Claudia,
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made by her son Rodrigo Ímaz, two influences are noticeable in the
early formation of her character: academic preparation and the fight
for social demands. In the first images of this documentary video, the
girl Claudia appears in the frame, plays a jarana and interprets the
llanera music of the Venezuelan Juan Vicente Torrealba: “Get up,
peasant, the light of day is coming, the guacharaca bird has already
sung on the banks of the river.”

Latin American music in the 1970s belonged to the protest movements,
or to the so-called “socially conscious” sectors of the
population; they were not melodies that the middle classes would sit
down and listen to with their families on any given Sunday.

Unlike those who make up the top brass of her Morena party, Claudia
does not come from the PRI, nor from the PAN, nor from Foxism, like
Monreal, Marcelo, Durazo or López Obrador himself. Nor is she the
product of pacts between business mafias to put a brand in place.
Sheinbaum has a career forged in social movements and academia; that
is her badge of pride, as the leader of her party often boasts,
“being on the right side of history.”

Paradoxically, the movement now led by the future president maintains
an open confrontation with the social movements in the country. There
are countless testimonies of rejection that the Morena government has
expressed towards organizations that fight for social change:
environmentalists, organizations defending human rights, the
Zapatistas, the mothers of the disappeared, feminists, the peace
movement, the relatives of disappeared Ayotzinapa students, the
progressive church, people defending the territory, among others.

Social movements are inconvenient to AMLO’s Fourth Transformation
and this government has criminalized them.

At the beginning of the six-year term, the People’s Front in Defense
of Land and Water of the states of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala
(FPDTA-MPT) openly opposed the Morelos Comprehensive Plan, a project
consisting of the creation of a gas pipeline and two thermoelectric
plants in Huexca. President López Obrador disqualified the protests,
calling the opposition “left-wing radicals” and
“pseudo-environmentalists.”

Activists took note of the inconsistency. The president opposed the
thermoelectric plant during his campaign, and as president he became
its main promoter. We already know the story: a week before the
consultation, promoted by the government to legitimize its project,
social leader Samir Flores was shot dead outside his home. This was
the first crime committed against a defender of the territory during
his six-year term. It was only February 2019.

From then on, the country became an even more hostile place for
defenders, activists and social movements. Opponents of the Mayan
Train, the Interoceanic Corridor and extractive projects received a
barrage of criticism from the Treasury Hall, on the president’s
morning TV conference “La Mañanera”. The mothers and fathers of
the 43 students from Ayotzinapa went from being heroes of this
government to being viewed with suspicion for their insistent
accusations against the Armed Forces, for the concealment of
information. At the same time, antibodies were injected [into the body
politic] through an editorial line designed to incriminate social
criticism while indulging the work of the government. 

In this scenario, Claudia Sheinbaum will come to power on October 1,
2024. The election results have given her a strong social support.
President López Obrador’s popularity is on the rise and critical
media outlets can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

History does not have a “right side,” but if it did, it would be
the side of the “people without history,” to paraphrase the Cuban
singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, “long beaches are formed grain
by grain”; the side of the people who fight, who march against the
current; the side of the victims who have suffered the oppression of
the powerful; in short, the side of the social movements. Obradorism
is a movement that comes from that tree, which has deep roots, but it
is only a branch, it is not the whole tree.

If Claudia Sheinbaum is on the “right side of history,” as her
supporters boast, a good start for her government would be to
recognize that they have made mistakes in their relationship with
social movements, to recognize that they have lacked the humility to
listen to the complaints and to feel the wounds from which the country
bleeds. It would be more consistent with her history and family roots,
the deep connection with her past.

Listening, just listening, would be a good start, sending the right
signal for the new government.

* South Africa
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* rightists
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* Left Politics
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* Sri Lanka
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* Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
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* Jathika Jana Balawegaya
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* Anura Kumara Dissanayake
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* Russia
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* imperialism
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* China
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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* Ilya Matveev
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* Iran
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* Tabas Madanjoo mini disaster
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* Gambia
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* Alieu Bah
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* Armenia
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* Sexual Violence
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* feminists
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* Venezuela
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* democracy
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* Transnational Institute
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* Institute for Policy Studies
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* Hassan Nasrallah
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* Israel
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* Lebanon
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* Kata’ib Hezbollah
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* Amilcar Cabral
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* Africa
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* Guinea-Bissau
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* Cape Verde
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* Marxism
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* Mexico
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Morena
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