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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – OCTOBER 23, 2024
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A woman holds cardboard keys reading "Vulture out" and "Right to a
roof", as people protest to demand lower housing rental prices and
better living conditions in Madrid, Spain, October 13, 2024. Credit,
ISABEL INFANTES / REUTERS
* Antiwar Protests and Resistance in Russia
* Elections Elsewhere
* Housing Movement in Spain
* Working Classes Come Together in Kenya
* Wages of War
* Unrest Continues in Martinique
* Climate Action International
* France’s Persecution of Pan-Africanist Kemi Sea
* Cuba’s Agony
* Life in the Comintern
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ANTIWAR PROTESTS AND RESISTANCE IN RUSSIA
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_Ivan Astashin_ / Posle
Why are there no mass anti-war demonstrations in Russia? What do
individual protest actions against Putin’s regime look like? How do
people resist the logistics of war? Solidarity Zone activist Ivan
Astashin recounts a short history of anti-war protest in Russia.
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ELECTIONS ELSEWHERE
• THAI PROGRESSIVES WRITE A NEW SCRIPT
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_David Hutt_ / The Diplomat (Arlington VA)
• _LA FRANCE INSOUMISE
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_John Mullen_ / Tempest (Brooklyn)
• TUNISIA HAS A BIG PROBLEM
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_Aseel Saleh_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
• SINN FÉIN SETBACKS
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_Shawn Pogatchnik_ / Politico.eu (Brussels)
• ANOTHER LOOK AT SRI LANKA ELECTION
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_Ahilan Kadirgamar and Devaka Gunawardena_ / International
Development Economics Associates (Oxford)
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HOUSING MOVEMENT IN SPAIN
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_Nina Cook_ / Euro Weekly News (Málaga)
On October 13, 2024, Madrid became the focal point of a massive
protest as thousands took to the streets to demand action
on Spain’s ongoing housing crisis. The protest, organised by
several advocacy groups and supported by a wide array of social
organisations, unions, and political parties, exposed the growing
difficulties in securing affordable housing in the capital and across
the country.
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WORKING CLASSES COME TOGETHER IN KENYA
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_Caroline Kimeu_ / New Lines (Washington DC)
Online opposition represented deep-seated public anger over how the
country is run, as became clear when the social media protests spilled
onto the streets and tens of thousands marched across the country.
Everyone, from influencers to informal workers rallied behind the
calls for lawmakers to rule out the tax proposals. The working poor
showed up with fervor.
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WAGES OF WAR
• GOVERNING GAZA
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Zeedani / +972 (Tel Aviv)
• EUROPEAN JEWS FOR PALESTINE
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_Micol Meghnagi_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
• CALL FROM PALESTINIAN UNIONS
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Workers in Palestine
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UNREST CONTINUES IN MARTINIQUE
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_Paul Kirby_ / BBC News (London)
Martinique has been rocked by protests that have left four people dead
in clashes and shops and businesses set alight or looted. Authorities
in the French territory have extended an overnight curfew to next
week. A deal to cut food prices has been rejected by the group behind
the protests.
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CLIMATE ACTION INTERNATIONAL
• PALESTINE
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_Hamza Hamouchene_ / Red Pepper (London)
• ZIMBABWE
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_Aimee Gabay and Tatenda Chitagu_ / Mongabay (Menlo Park CA)
• HONDURAS: REMEMBERING JUAN LÓPEZ
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_Giada Ferrucci_ / NACLA Report (New York)
• DOCUMENTARY: WITSUWIT'EN, CANADA
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/ CBC Docs (Toronto)
• SHIPIBO-CONIBO OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
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_Harriet Barber_ / The Guardian (London)
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FRANCE’S PERSECUTION OF PAN-AFRICANIST KEMI SEBA
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch
Masked men violently seized one of Francophone Africa’s leading
anti-colonial activists, Kema Seba, in Paris on October 14. The
42-year-old is the President of _Urgences Panafricanistes_
(Pan-Africanist Emergencies) which has been on the frontline of the
movement across France’s former colonies in West Africa against its
continuing monetary stranglehold through its colonial currency of
CFA-Franc.
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Cuba’s Agony
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
Electricity is slowly returning to Havana, Cuba’s capital, days
after a nationwide blackout plunged the country of 10 million into
total darkness on Friday, causing the government to close all
non-essential workplaces and cancel school classes until
Thursday. Adding to concerns, Hurricane Oscar made landfall in
eastern Cuba late Sunday afternoon as a Category 1 storm.
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LIFE IN THE COMINTERN
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_Aidan Beatty_ / Jacobin
The Communist International’s history is often told in terms of
polemics among its leaders. But studying the biographies of
lesser-known militants who came to Moscow gives a more real sense of
the movement’s internal life and what it was like to belong to it.
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* France
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* La France Insoumise
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* Tunisia
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* ireland
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* Sinn Fein
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* Sri Lanka
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* Spain
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* Housing
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* Kenya
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* Israel
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* Gaza
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* Palestine
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* Jews
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* unions
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* Martinique
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* Climate Action
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* Zimbabwe
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* Honduras
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* Juan López
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* Peru
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* Communist International
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