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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 11, 2024
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December 11, 2024
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_ As the world churns _
Rojava revolutionaries. Credit, Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty
* Change Requires Deep Organizing
* Syria, Kurds and Turkey
* Pink Tide Governments and Trump
* Inside the Protests in Seoul
* How Social Reproduction Shapes Women’s Union Militancy
* China and Myanmar: Which Side Are You On
* Germany’s Decolonial Climate Movement
* Military Refusal in Israel
* Sahel: Two Views
* Ukraine: Does the Struggle Continue?
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CHANGE REQUIRES DEEP ORGANIZING
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_Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn_ / Asian Labour Review (Hong Kong)
Change requires deep organising rather than relying solely on mutual
aid or awareness campaigns. Protests and campaigns raise visibility
but rarely result in lasting change. Organised groups are shifting
toward building associational power by uniting and sharing
experiences, fostering a worker-led movement that emphasises internal
capacity-building for long-term struggles.
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SYRIA, KURDS AND TURKEY
• THE FUTURE OF SYRIA
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_Israel Dutra and Joseph Daher_ / Links (Sydney)
• WILL KURDS SURVIVE?
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Broomfield_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• THE WEEK THAT TOPPLED ASSAD
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_Sarah Glynn_ / Medyanews (Campobasso, Italy)
• CALL FOR DEFENSE OF ROJAVA
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PINK TIDE GOVERNMENTS AND TRUMP
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_Ociel Alí López_ / NACLA Report (New York)
Despite having so many progressive governments in office, Latin
America does not have the same degree of cohesion as it had in the
previous decade, when there were fewer leftist leaders in power but
with greater shared political force. The enthusiasm generated by the
first cycle of leftist governments is no longer the same. There is a
lack of consistency as they face the complex situations to come.
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INSIDE THE PROTESTS IN SEOUL
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_Kwan Wei Kevin Tan and Andrew Minjun Park_ / Business Insider (New
York)
The president had crossed the line when he got the military involved.
What he had done posed a risk to democracy. I took the subway to the
National Assembly. Many of the people who were already there seemed
to be party members or unionists. The unionists were wearing uniforms
and waving their unions' flags. At around 12:30 a.m., families and
students were arriving in larger numbers.
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HOW SOCIAL REPRODUCTION SHAPES WOMEN’S UNION MILITANCY
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_Mariela Cambiasso_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
The new women’s movement intersects with women’s union activism in
the industrial sector. Demanding conditions for union activism clearly
contribute to women’s low participation rates. By treating these
barriers as simply individual challenges to overcome, we fail to
acknowledge systemic inequalities that limit union participation.
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CHINA AND MYANMAR: WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON
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_Than N Oo_ / Asia Times (Hong Kong)
Historically, China has hedged its influence in Myanmar by
simultaneously supporting the Myanmar military and various ethnic
resistance organizations (EROs) along its border. The turning point
came during Operation 1027, where the military lost significant
territory in northern Shan state to the EROs. China adjusted its
approach and began openly supporting the military regime.
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GERMANY’S DECOLONIAL CLIMATE MOVEMENT
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_Ilham Rawoot_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
Tatu Hey, a member of Climate Justice Berlin, an intersectional
climate and environmental justice collective founded in Berlin, says
that climate justice is inherently decolonial. Climate justice is seen
through the lens of people in the Global South fighting colonial
struggles, be this in the form of extractivism, continuation of
colonial gender dynamics, land struggles or educational struggles.
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MILITARY REFUSAL IN ISRAEL
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_Oren Ziv_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)
+972 met with Elam and Behar Tsalik two days before their
incarceration to talk about what led them to publicly refuse military
service, the reactions from those around them, and their preparations
for spending time in prison.
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SAHEL: TWO VIEWS
• ALLIANCE FOR SOVEREIGNTY
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_Vijay Prashad_ / The Wire (New Delhi)
• ALLIANCE OF JUNTAS
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_Bouba Jalloh_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
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UKRAINE: DOES THE STRUGGLE CONTINUE?
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_Sacha Ismail_ / South London socialist
Weariness is not the same as willingness to surrender. To state what
should be obvious but the anti-Ukraine left has such trouble with, all
or virtually all Ukrainians want and always have wanted the war to end
as soon as possible – in a general sense. There is an overwhelming
– rational – scepticism about what will result from negotiations
without a significant military shift in favour of Ukraine.
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* Syria
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* Kurds
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* Turkey
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* Rojava
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* Bashar al-Assad
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* Latin America
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* New Pink Tide
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* Donald Trump
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* South Korea
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* South Korean protests
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* Yoon Suk-yeol
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* unions
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* Women
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* China
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* Myanmar
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* Germany
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* Climate Justice Germany
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* Tatu Hey
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* Israel
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* refuseniks
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* Sahel
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* Alliance of Sahel States
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* Ukraine
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