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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JANUARY 1, 2025  
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January 1, 2025
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_ The big picture _

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* Jayati Ghosh on Democracy
* Civil Society Trends for 2025
* Saving the Planet
* Cuba: Yet Another Special Period
* New Formations
* Capital – The Cold Case
* Neoliberalism’s Hollow Promise of Freedom
* The Nyéléni Process
* UK Youth Vote
* Lessons from 20th Century Revolutionaries

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JAYATI GHOSH ON DEMOCRACY
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New Socialist Initiative (New Delhi)

Many analyses of the recent erosion of democracy in India have dwelt
on political and social forces. I will examine the role of economic
forces unleashed by a particular form of capitalist development, and
how they may have contributed to this process in recent decades.

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CIVIL SOCIETY TRENDS FOR 2025
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_Andrew Firmin and Inés M. Pousadela_ / Inter Press Service (New
York)

It’s been a tumultuous year, and a tough one for struggles for human
rights. Civil society has kept holding the line, resisting power grabs
and regressive legislation, calling out injustice and claiming some
victories, often at great cost. And things aren’t about to get any
easier, as key challenges identified in 2024 are likely to intensify
in 2025.

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SAVING THE PLANET

VIEWS FROM AFRICA ON COP29
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  / African Arguments (London)

ADAM HANIEH’S _CRUDE CAPITALISM_
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Pirani_ / The Ecologist (Bideford UK)

AN INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE TO SAVE THE AMAZON
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  _Francesc Badia I Dalmases_ / openDemocracy (London)

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ADVANCE CLIMATE JUSTICE
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  _Melina Dickson_ / The Round Table

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CUBA: YET ANOTHER SPECIAL PERIOD
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_Ernesto Teuma_ / New Left Review (London)

Cuba is navigating turbulent waters; we will need to hone our skills
as sailors—to learn from past shipwrecks and avoid new ones, knowing
how much the future depends on our own efforts. It will take time for
the storm to abate.

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NEW FORMATIONS

SOUTH AFRICA: ZABALAZA FOR SOCIALISM
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  / Links (Sydney)

VENEZUELA: COMUNES
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EUROPEAN LEFT ALLIANCE
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  _Janis Ehling_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

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CAPITAL – THE COLD CASE
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_Ingo Schmidt_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)

Marx died in 1883. So, a new generation of detectives have begun
asking themselves how, despite his predictions, a sustained boom could
have occurred. They started going through Das Kapital again. Did
Marx miss something? Or had capitalism changed so much that his
analysis needed to be adapted to the new times? 

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NEOLIBERALISM’S HOLLOW PROMISE OF FREEDOM
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_Grace Blakeley_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

The economy we have now is based on a pervasive and invisible form of
centralized planning that is very difficult to challenge and that
rests on an ideology that tells people that you live in a competitive
economy and have to compete with people around you. That’s what
makes the system work. Even though it’s not true, this is part of
the ideology.

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THE NYÉLÉNI PROCESS
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Nyéléni Newsletter (Brussels)

Seventeen years have passed since 2007, when the first Nyéléni
Forum took place in Mali, bringing together social movements for food
sovereignty from all over the world. The movement has been growing and
gaining momentum, advocating at all levels for collective rights,
human rights and food sovereignty. However, much remains to be done.

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UK YOUTH VOTE
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_Michael Chessum_ / openDemocracy

Despite its failure to leave behind much grassroots organisation,
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership galvanised millions. This generation now
knows what it’s like to have a voice in the political mainstream. It
won’t tolerate being shut out of the political process indefinitely.
The success of Green and independent candidates at this year’s
general election was in part driven by this fact.

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LESSONS FROM 20TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONARIES

CLARA ZETKIN COUNSELS UNITED FRONT
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  _Jörn Schütrumpf_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

THE COMINTERN’S ANTI-COLONIALISM
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  _John Riddell_ / johnriddell.com (Toronto)

ERIC HOBSBAWM’S HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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  _Patrick Iber_ / The New Republic (Washington DC)

OVERLAPPING CENTURIES WITH MARTA HARNECKER
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Enrique Stédile_ / Links

ON THE SECOND DECLARATION OF HAVANA
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   / Cuban Solidarity Campaign (London)

LENIN VS. ULTRA-LEFTISM
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  _Peter Coffin_ / P on Stuff (New York)

* democracy
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* Jayati Ghosh
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* India
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* Civil Society
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* environment
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* Africa
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* COP29
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* Adam Hanieh
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* Crude Capitalism
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* Oil
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* Indigenous peoples
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* Amazon region
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* Social Movements
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* Cuba
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* left parties
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* South Africa
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* Zabalaza for Socialism
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* Venezuela
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* COMUNES
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* European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
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* Das Kapital
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* Karl Marx
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* neo-liberalism
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* Nyéléni
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* food sovereignty
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* UK
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* youth
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* Revolutionary Thought
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* Clara Zetkin
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* Fascism
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* united front
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* Comintern
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* anti colonialism
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* Eric Hobsbawm; The Age of Extremes; 20th Century History;
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* Marta Harnecker
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* Second Declaration of Havana
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* Vladimir Lenin
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* ultra-leftism
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