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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - MAY 6, 2020
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_ Bay of Pigs 2020 in Venezuela, and more international news and
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A member of the Bolivarian National Militia brandishes a rifle during
an invasion drill in Caracas, Venezuela, AP Photo/Matias Delacroix
* Venezuela: Army Thwarts Invasion
* Pandemic Era Analysis
* Poland: History on Trial
* Sudan Bans Female Genital Mutilation
* Brazil: Opposition Alignment
* Party of the Euro Left Takes Stock
* Panama Protests Demand Government Aid
* Report From Kurdish Syria
* Legacies
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Venezuela: Army Thwarts Invasion
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_Interview with Miguel Tinker Salas_ / Democracy Now! (New York)
[Note: On May 6, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared “We
will start the process of trying to figure a way, if in fact these are
Americans that are there, that we can figure out a path forward. We
want to get every American back. If the Maduro regime decides to hold
them, we will use every tool that we have available to try and get
them back.”]
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Pandemic Era Analysis
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
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_maldekstra international_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
RETHINKING THE WAY WE ORGANIZE
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_LevFem, Bulgaria_ / LeftEast (Bucharest)
STATE INTERVENTIONS, GOOD AND BAD
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_James Meadway_ / Novara Media (London)
SE ASIA MAY DAY JOINT STATEMENT
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/ Green Left (Sydney)
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Poland: History on Trial
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_Jacek C. Kamiński_ / transform! Europe (Brussels)
Each of the defendants has been accused of "being on the editorial
team of the magazine _Brzask_, the content published on its pages
referring directly to the ideas of a communist state system and
Marxism and Leninism."
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Sudan Bans Female Genital Mutilation
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_Yuti Joshi_ / CBS News (New York)
A estimated 9 out of 10 women between the ages of 15 to 49 have been
subjected to the practice. But some activists warn the practice could
be hard to eradicate in a country where it is so entrenched in the
culture.
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Brazil: Opposition Alignment
ONLINE SHOW OF UNITY
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Explica (Austin)
PARTY LEADERS DEMAND PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION
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Gomes, Fernando Haddad, Guilherme Boulos,and Flávio Dino _/ Brasil
Wire
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Party of the Euro Left Takes Stock
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_Cornelia Hildebrandt_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
The Party of the European Left unites completely different parties
that have different functions in their respective countries, and
correspondingly different expectations.
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Panama Protests Demand Government Aid
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Peoples Dispatch
Hundreds of residents of four towns in the Guna Yala region blocked
the Pan-American highway at Loma Cová, in Arraiján district, for
several hours. The protesters demanded the delivery of solidarity
vouchers, food bags and other aid promised by the national government.
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Report From Kurdish Syria
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_Ivan Hassib_ / Al-Monitor (Washington)
For the first time since Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander
Mazlum Abdi announced an initiative to resolve inter-Kurdish
differences, the Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the Kurdish
Democratic Union Party (PYD) kick-started secret, direct talks.
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Legacies
DENNIS GOLDBERG
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_Jason Burke_ / The Guardian (London)
ARIF WAZIR
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_Dilawar Khan_ / teleSUR (Caracas)
ADELAIDA MACUSANG
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_Ken E. Cagula_ / Davao Today
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