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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – NOVEMBER 13, 2024  
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November 13, 2024
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_ We are at the brink _

Credit, Frank Newbould

 

* How to Counter Fascism
* Jayati Ghosh: We Are At the Brink
* Left Views on Trump Win
* Truth Takes a Side
* Belgian Workers Party Wins Municipal Seats
* Argentina’s Student Movement
* Thunberg in Tblisi
* Marielle Franco’s Legacy
* Violence in Mozambique
* Gisèle Pelicot Becomes a World Symbol

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How to Counter Fascism [[link removed]]

_Walden Bello_ / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)

Let’s not fear to see what we can learn from the extreme right,
especially when it comes to the politics of passion or the politics of
charisma, and see how our values can be advanced or promoted in
passionate and charismatic ways. We must unite reason to passion and
not see them as being in contradiction, while not violating our
commitments to truth, justice, and fair play in the process.

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Jayati Ghosh: We Are At the Brink
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)

Ghosh explores the breakdown of the global legal and economic order
brought on by the siege of Gaza. Recent political shifts have led to a
disintegration of established rules. While the international trade and
justice systems are in chaos, only financial regulations remain
intact. This creates a peculiar moment in the global economy that
opens up opportunities for new ideas and power dynamics to emerge.

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Left Views on Trump Reelection

 • FROM FRANCE   _Roger Martelli_ / Regards (Paris) 

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Donald Trump prevailed over Kamala Harris. His victory doesn’t just
upset American Democrats. We know that he is just one part of a vast
planetary movement which, whether fascist, quasi-fascist or
fascistoid, intends to turn the page once and for all on a democratic
history inaugurated by the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of
Revolutions.

How do we stop the infernal machine? On the left, two antagonistic
approaches are proposed to us: reduce the subversive impact of
equality to win over the undecideds or, on the contrary, assert the
need for radical ruptures to respond to the resentment of those left
behind in our societies. The first answer should be rejected: with the
prevailing logics of exploitation, domination and alienation at the
root of our ills, nothing is more realistic than radically overcoming
them. The problem is that invoking radicalism is not enough.
Basically, while the liberal capitulations of social democracy have
fuelled disillusionment and popular resentment, the alternative lefts
have nowhere demonstrated their usefulness in the long term.

To ward off destructive tendencies, there is no other certain solution
than to back up anger with a collective hope that distances it from
resentment. In societies that today seem to have neither a past nor a
future, humanist struggles need to be based on another possible
future, one that gives healthy criticism the dimension of a global
proposal. This proposal can take the form of a program, but at a time
when not many people believe in promises and programs, a catalog of
proposals will not mobilize without the introduction of an overall
vision, of a grand narrative that restores meaning where there is
none.

But what’s the point of a narrative if, in a society that is
socially, politically and symbolically dislocated, we don't know how
to move from an uneasy jigsaw puzzle of differences and antagonisms to
a society that is conciliated and united? Radicality is therefore
necessary, to show us how we should go about treating social ills at
their root. This is only socially useful if this radicalism also tells
us how we can make the aspiration for a clean break become the
trajectory of broad majorities.

Proposals, a project, a long-term strategy... In short, we need to
oppose the extreme right with a broad left that is firmly _on_ the
left, not a left in halftones. It won't come together if there isn't a
left political alternative within it. On the condition that the latter
never forgets that it has no claim to being the salt of the earth on
its own, and that an alternative is only worthwhile if it can
_ultimately_ be backed by a majority. A left alternative _and_ a
united left. It’s all in the ‘_and_’.

 • FROM SRI LANKA
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 _Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar_ / Daily FT (Colombo)

 • FROM UK
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  _George Monbiot_ / The Guardian (London)

 • FROM ITALY
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  _Luca Celada_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

 • FROM A RUSSIAN PRISON
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  _Boris Kagarlitsky_ / Links (Sydney)

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TRUTH TAKES A SIDE
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_John Clarke_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

The dominant ways of thinking may serve the purposes of people like
Elon Musk, who refuse to acknowledge the destructive irrationality of
their relentless drive to accumulate or question the narrowly
individualistic view of society. For those of us who struggle against
the system, however, the “ruling ideas” are an encumbrance and we
need to develop very different ways of thinking.

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BELGIAN WORKERS PARTY WINS MUNICIPAL SEATS
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_Nico Biver_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)

The party ran in a total of 67 municipalities (compared to 61 in 2018)
and won 197 seats (138 in 2018). It suffered slight losses in only
seven of the electoral wards involved. In the elections to the ten
provincial assemblies its share of seats rose from 11 to 18, with 16
of these in Wallonia.

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ARGENTINA’S STUDENT MOVEMENT
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_Lucas Bricca_ / NACLA Report (New York)

On October 2, Argentine President Javier Milei vetoed a university
financing bill that would have adjusted national university budgets
every two months based on changes in the consumer price index, peso
exchange rate, and the cost of public services. In response to the
veto, students at over 30 universities across the country voted in
open assemblies to occupy their campuses, some indefinitely. 

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THUNBERG IN TBLISI
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_Rasmus Canbäck_ / Blankspot (Stockholm)

After a long journey across Europe, Greta Thunberg has arrived in the
protest-filled Georgia. Over a pizza, she talks about her criticism of
the upcoming COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, her own journey as an
activist, and how the climate summit risks becoming a political tool
in the hands of regimes that violate human rights.

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MARIELLE FRANCO’S LEGACY
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_Bibbi Abruzzini and Clarisse Sih_ / Global Voices (The Hague)

On the night of March 14, 2018, Brazil was shocked by the breaking
news about the execution of a Rio de Janeiro city
councilor. Franco was first elected to Rio’s City Council in 2016
with PSOL (Socialism and Liberty), a leftist party. She was a woman of
African descent from the Maré favela complex, one of the
largest in the city; she was a single mother and a woman in a
same-sex relationship. 

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VIOLENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE
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_Ruth Castel-Branco_ / Africa is a Country (New York)

A decade ago, the kind of protest movement seen over the last few
weeks would have been difficult to fathom. Oppositional voices were
few and far between, and all the Frelimo regime had to do was
persecute an unlucky few in order to restore order. Today, the
oppositional voices are too many and too diverse to be silenced. 

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GISÈLE PELICOT BECOMES A WORLD SYMBOL
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_Kim Willsher_ / The Guardian

Gisèle Pelicot’s dignity during the rape trial of her husband has
inspired not just worldwide support but renewed debate about the
law. At demonstrations, protesters have held signs reading: “_Je
suis Gisèle_” in support of the woman who has become
a national and international feminist figurehead.

* Fascism
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* Economic Crisis
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* justice
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* Donald Trump
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* 2024 Elections
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* France
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* the Left
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* Sri Lanka
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* UK
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* Climate
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* Italy
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* Russia
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* ways of thinking
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* Workers' Party Belgium
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* Argentina
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* students
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* Greta Thunberg
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* COP29
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* Brazil
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* Marielle Franco
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* Mozambique
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* Gisèle Pelicot
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* Feminism
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