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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FEBRUARY 26, 2025  
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February 26, 2025
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_ Brave new world order? _

Die Linke leaders on February 21. Left to right: Jan van Aken, Ines
Schwerdtner, Heidi Reichinnek and Gregor Gysi. Credit, Christian
Mang/Reuters/Ritzau/Scanpix

 

* German Election
* Brave New World Order?
* La Via Campesina on IWD 25
* How South Koreans Stopped a Coup
* Voices From and About Ukraine
* Colombian Architects Counter Colonial Practices
* Students in Serbia
* Sheinbaum Defends Mexican Sovereignty
* Turkey: Öcalan’s Peace Plan
* Sectarianism and Internationalism

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GERMAN ELECTION

* _DIE LINKE _ENDURES
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  Moritz Warnke_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
 
* HOW THE DEED WAS DONE
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  _Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
 
* GREGOR GYSI SPEAKS
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_Loren Balhorn_ / Tribune (London)
 
* THE FATE OF THE SPD
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  _Bartosz M. Rydliński_ / Project Syndicate (Kings Park NY)
 
* SAHRA WAGENKNECHT’S WASHOUT
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  _David Broder_ / The New Statesman (London)

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Brave New World Order?

* EPOCHAL CRISIS
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  _William I. Robinson_ / Links (Sydney)
 
* NEW FAR RIGHT AXIS
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Achcar_ / blog (London)
 
* HYPER-IMPERIALISM…
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  _Vijay Prashad_ / Peoples Democracy (New Delhi)
 
* …OR ROTTING IMPERIALISM?
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  _Alonso Gurmendi _/ The New Arab (London)
 
* GEOPOLITICS OF CAPITALISM
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_Nick Buxton, editor_ / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)

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LA VIA CAMPESINA ON IWD 25
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La Via Campesina (Bagnolet, France)

As we approach the International Day of Working Women’s Struggle (08
March), La Via Campesina calls for a global mobilization to face the
advance of fascism, violence and the food crisis. The peasant movement
denounces the impact of social and economic crises, evidenced by
rising poverty, unemployment, rural debt, and the severe migration
crises which affect both rural and urban areas. 

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HOW SOUTH KOREANS STOPPED A COUP
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_Jungmin Choi_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)

Something incredible happened in South Korea two months ago, and it
could be just the kind of inspiration Americans need to turn the tide
on the Trump administration’s dangerous power-grab.

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VOICES FROM AND ABOUT UKRAINE

* NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE
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  / Zmina (Kyev)
 
* DEFENSE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Bondareva_ / Europe Solitaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
 
* THE DEAL   _Raul Zelik_ / Neues Deutschland (Berlin)

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The left-wing “European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine”
compares the looming deal between the USA and Russia with the Munich
Agreement of 1938, which gave Nazi Germany a third of Czechoslovakia's
territory. In a recent statement, the network explains Ukraine's fatal
situation with a lack of international support. Although Western
states have repeatedly affirmed that they “stand by Ukraine's
side”, in reality this has turned out to be an empty promise.
Accordingly, the initiative is calling for an increase in military aid
and the cancellation of Ukraine's foreign debt.

Many Eastern European leftists have a similar view of the situation.
The feminist philosopher Tereza Hendl, for example, who has accused
the Western left of “Westsplaining” since the outbreak of the war,
i.e. a know-it-all explanation of Russia's role from a Western
perspective, believes that the rapprochement between Trump and Putin
must be seen as a far-right pact.

On X she writes: “The fascists are allying themselves - from the USA
to Russia ... to Germany. And a large part of the left is preparing
the ground for them because they are not taking note of the right-wing
extremist Russian imperialism (...). This is the result of the left's
inability to engage with the anti-imperialist knowledge of Eastern
Europe.” The historical experiences and material realities of
Eastern European societies are not understood by the Western left. For
Hendl, this arrogance towards Eastern European voices is in the
tradition of a German master race mentality.

Dresden-based sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko, who has repeatedly
criticized Ukraine's liberation nationalist narrative since the start
of the war, has a very different focus. “My parents are in Kiev, my
cousin is in Kharkiv, another relative is in the army, two friends are
hiding from conscription,” he explains. “The sooner the war is
over, the more likely they are to survive.” According to Ishchenko,
this perception is much more widespread among the population than is
generally assumed.

The sociologist is therefore not really convinced that Ukrainians feel
betrayed. “According to a survey, Trump is relatively popular - as
he is in most Eastern European countries, by the way.” The US
president's demand that Ukraine hand over raw materials worth 500
billion US dollars to his country is, of course, outrageous to
Ukrainians. However, parts of the population are following the
negotiations with “cautious optimism”.

“A survey a few months ago showed that a majority of Ukrainians
would agree to a territorial compromise if there were strong security
guarantees or Nato membership in return,” says Ishchenko. Although
hardly anyone agrees with the annexation of Crimea and the Donets
Basin, there is something of a realistic assessment of the situation.
“A whole range of indicators show that people don't want to keep
dying. The number of men leaving the country illegally is increasing.
And people's behavior is perhaps stronger evidence of the mood than
what they say.”

Ishchenko emphasizes that US policy was already highly problematic
under Biden. “Although the US warned of the invasion, it made no
diplomatic efforts to prevent or stop the war.” Instead, their
strategy was to exhaust Russia at the expense of Ukraine. “The Biden
administration has not provided enough resources for Ukraine to win,
but has also made no attempt to start negotiations.”

In response to the question of whether the expected freezing of the
war is dangerous because it does nothing to resolve the conflict, the
sociologist replies: “In times of imperialism, no peace agreement is
permanent.” If you want to put a lasting end to war, you have to
override the economic mechanisms that drive states towards war.In
response to the question of whether the expected freezing of the war
is dangerous because it does nothing to resolve the conflict, the
sociologist replies: “In times of imperialism, no peace agreement is
permanent.” If you want to put a lasting end to war, you have to
override the economic mechanisms that drive states towards war.

Ishchenko is not very confident in the medium term. Western companies
will be the main beneficiaries of the reconstruction. “Similar
questions will arise as we know them from colonial or post-colonial
states in Africa, Asia or Latin America. Namely, how to ensure that
decisions made in the country also have an impact.” Nevertheless,
Ishchenko does not believe in a nationalist perspective. “In a
changing world, we really need to think about internationalist
organization again.”

The only thing the different assessments have in common is the
observation that Ukraine is undergoing a kind of colonization process.
The outlook for the Eastern European country is therefore bleak - even
if most Ukrainians are likely to be relieved about a ceasefire for the
time being.

* FROM PACIFISM TO ARMS
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Butkevych and Sonya Koshkina_ / Europe Solitaire Sans Frontières

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COLOMBIAN ARCHITECTS COUNTER COLONIAL PRACTICES
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_Oliver Wainwright_ / The Guardian (London)

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s
architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological
action. “What if we saw ancestral knowledge not as a romantic past,
but as a vivid present that could teach us resilience?”

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STUDENTS IN SERBIA
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_Dušanka Milosavljević_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Serbia is currently in the grips of the largest student rebellion and
subsequent civilian mobilization in the country’s
history. Self-organized students have now occupied more than 50
university departments, calling for the prosecution of those
responsible for physical attacks on students, a 20-percent increase in
the higher education budget with a 50-percent reduction in tuition
fees.

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SHEINBAUM DEFENDS MEXICAN SOVEREIGNTY
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Le Monde (Paris)

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico would expand its legal action
against US gun manufacturers, which her government accuses of
negligence in the sale of weapons that end up in the hands of drug
traffickers.

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TURKEY: ÖCALAN’S PEACE PLAN
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ANF (Amsterdam)

_The Roadmap to Negotiations_ was the centerpiece of the secret
dialogue process between Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state. Going
beyond traditional solutions like statehood or territorial autonomy,
he envisions a democratic nation and a common homeland for all
countries where Kurds live.

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SECTARIANISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
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_Francisco Louçã_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

Defining politics based on camps of international obedience has always
been a trap for the left. Those who classify China as today’s
socialist system must remain silent when a Chinese public company buys
EDP or REN, in an investment resulting from its capital accumulation
on an international scale. Alignment with Moscow in the invasion of
Ukraine is another of these contradictions.

* Germany
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* Die Linke
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* Ines Schwerdtner
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* Jan van Aken
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* Gregor Gysi
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* German Social Democratic Party
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* Sahra Wagenknecht
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* imperialism
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* far right
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* La Via Campesina
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* International Women's Day
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* South Korea
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* Ukraine
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* Sotsialnyi Rukh
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* Colombia
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* architecture
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* Serbia
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* Mexico
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Abdullah Öcalan
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* Turkey
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* campism
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* Internationalism
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* sectarianism
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