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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MARCH 12, 2025
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March 12, 2025
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_ Women worldwide speak as one _
Demonstrators march to mark International Women's Day, in Quito,
Ecuador March 8, 2025. Credit, Karen Toro, REUTERS
* Thousands Turn Out for IWD
* Think Pieces
* Mass Strike in Greece
* Video: First Nations vs Big Oil in Canada
* Documentary: A Voice for Western Sahara Independence
* Anti-Trump Backlash Growing
* Uruguay: A New Left Administration
* Die Linke: Party and Movement
* Africa on Strike
* A New Deal for Russia?
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THOUSANDS TURN OUT FOR IWD
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
Demonstrators have taken to the streets across Asia, Africa, Europe
and the Americas to mark International Women’s Day, with many
demanding an end to gender-based violence and inequality. In cities
like Buenos Aires, those warnings were particularly grave, as
protesters railed against austerity plans put forth by President
Javier Milei that they say will roll back services for women.
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THINK PIECES
• THE AGE OF NEOFASCISM
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_Gilbert Achcar_ / Historical Materialism (London)
• NONPROFITS AND NEOLIBERALISM
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_Udi Greenberg_ / Boston Review
• THE COMPLEX REALITY OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY
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Migevant and Daria Saburova_ / Europe Solitaire Sans Frontières
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• SOCIAL CARE IS SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Macaskill_ / Scottish Care (Glasgow)
• XI JINPING ON ART AND LITERATURE
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_Xi Jinping_ / Friends of Socialist China (London)
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MASS STRIKE IN GREECE
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_Panagiotis Sotiris_ / Historical Materialism
On the morning of 28 February, the images were without precedent. Once
could see people flooding the centre of Athens and Thessaloniki and
every city and town in Greece. It was a real general strike, most
shops were closed and people that usually refrained from such
gatherings felt that they had a moral duty to be there.
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VIDEO: FIRST NATIONS VS BIG OIL IN CANADA
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_Brandi Marin_ / The Real News Network (Baltimore)
The oil boom in Alberta, Canada has brought Big Oil in confrontation
with First Nations for decades. This year, the struggle of the
Woodland Cree united Treaty 8 First Nations and local non-Indigenous
industry owners to stop construction of new oil wells by Obsidian
Energy.
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Documentary: A Voice for Western Sahara Independence
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_Mohamedsalem Werad_ / RFI (Paris)
A powerful new documentary at France’s Fipadoc festival reveals
Western Sahara’s fight for independence through the story of Mariem
Hassan, whose music became the voice of her people's resistance until
her death in 2015.
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ANTI-TRUMP BACKLASH GROWING
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_Peter Beaumont_ / The Guardian (London)
A growing international move to boycott the US is spreading from
Scandinavia to Canada to the UK and beyond as consumers turn against
US goods. Most prominent so far has been the rejection by European
car buyers of the Teslas produced by Elon Musk. The past week has
seen daily reports of cultural and other forms of boycotts and
disinvestment.
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URUGUAY: A NEW LEFT ADMINISTRATION
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_Matilde Campodonico and Isabel Debre_ / Associated Press (New York)
Yamandú Orsi took office as Uruguay’s new president, at the helm
of a government that has pledged to strengthen the social safety
net while reversing years of economic stagnation. The inauguration
of Orsi, 57, marks the return of Uruguay’s Broad Front — a
center-left mix of moderates, communists and hardline trade unionists.
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DIE LINKE: PARTY AND MOVEMENT
• INSIDE THE RESURGENCE
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_Grace Blakeley_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• ROOM FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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_Loren Balhorn and William Shoki_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
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AFRICA ON STRIKE
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_Bettina Engels_ / London School of Economics
African trade unions are actors in struggles for radical change to
political and economic structures. Yet, they primarily represent the
interests of regular contracted workers in the formal sector. This is
a minority of the working people worldwide, which reflects the dubious
narrow notion of labour under capitalism. Despite this, Africa is home
to dynamic and evolving forms of industrial action.
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A NEW DEAL FOR RUSSIA?
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_Boris Kagarlitsky_ / Links (Sydney)
From the penal colony where he is serving a five-year sentence for
“justification of terrorism,” Boris Kagarlitsky has actively
participated in the detailed analysis of the New Deal proposal for
Russia developed by a group of leftist economists. The New Deal
program asserts that Russia will inevitably enter an era of major
transformations. The coming changes will impact all spheres of public
life.
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* First Nations
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* Mariem Hassan
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* Western Sahara
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* Donald Trump
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* Germany
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