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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FOCUS ON EASTERN EUROPE
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March 19, 2025
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_ Unprecedented mass protests hit Serbia _
“Women in the front lines.” International Women’s Day, 2025,
Belgrade. Credit, AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic
* The European Left Facing a Historic Challenge
* Serbia Up For Grabs
* Bitter Choices for Ukraine
* Hungary: Major Opposition Protest
* Poland: A New Contender
* Romania: Housing Rights
* Belarus: Unions in Opposition
* Georgia Republic: Unions Against Repression
* A Russian Trade Unionist Comments
* Walden Bello on Boris Kagarlitsky
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THE EUROPEAN LEFT FACING A HISTORIC CHALLENGE
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_Stefan Bekier_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
What challenges for Europe caught between two neo-fascist imperialisms
of Trump and Putin? Why does the future of the European Union depend
primarily on its ability to help Ukraine liberate itself from the
Russian invader? What are the responsibilities of the European left in
this new situation?
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SERBIA UP FOR GRABS
• HISTORY-MAKING STUDENT PROTESTS
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_Sanja Kljajic_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
• WORKERS JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
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_Matija Barišić_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
• WOMEN’S DAY ACTION
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_Jovana Gec_ / Associated Press (New York)
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Bitter Choices for Ukraine
• REFLECTIONS FROM A _SOTSIALNYI RUKH_ MEMBER
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_Denys Pilash and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)
• NEOLIBERALISM AND INEQUALITY
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_Francesca Barca_ / Voxeurop (Paris)
• UNRAVELING BANDERA
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HUNGARY: MAJOR OPPOSITION PROTEST
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_Tara John and Andrea Keleti_ / CNN (Atlanta)
From the far-right to the left, opposition parties across Hungary’s
political spectrum have been showing unity against what they consider
the increasingly authoritarian rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and
his ruling Fidesz Party. Thousands of Hungarians have marched through
Budapest – some chanting “Vik-ta-tor” (an amalgamation of Viktor
and dictator) and waving pro-democracy placards.
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POLAND: A NEW CONTENDER
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Polskie Radio (Warsaw)
Discussing security in the context of the upcoming election,
Magdalena Biejat pointed to issues affecting everyday life,
particularly those concerning women, such as abortion rights,
reproductive healthcare, employment and access to medical services.
Biejat is a deputy Speaker of Poland’s Senate, and a presidential
candidate for _Nowa Lewica._
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ROMANIA: HOUSING RIGHTS
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_Ioana Florea and Mihail Sandu-Dumitriu_ / LeftEast
In Romania, the housing question has received more attention than
before. As members of the Common Front for Housing Rights, in
contact with persons both in this low-to-middle income category as
well as others affected by housing precarity, we find it important to
pay attention to the attitudes and values of the population beyond the
rare moments of elections (every 4-5 years).
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BELARUS: UNIONS IN OPPOSITION
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_Lizaveta Merliak_ / Global Labour Column
Lukashenko has maintained his iron grip on power for three decades
through fraudulent elections, kidnapping political opponents, and
transforming the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus into an
instrument of the state’s ideological apparatus. Nevertheless,
democratic civil society, including the workers’ movement,
maintained some space to operate.
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GEORGIA REPUBLIC: UNIONS AGAINST REPRESSION
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Civil Georgia (Tblisi)
On February 5, six independent labor unions announced a joint
decision to initiate seven collective labor disputes against the
government, aiming to reinstate dismissed employees. This marks the
first time collective action is used against the state and may pave
the way for a legally warranted strike.
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A RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONIST COMMENTS
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_Pavel Kudyukin, Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov_ / Links
Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union
and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia.
He also served as Russia’s deputy minister of labour (1991-93). Here
he talks about the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia
and the territories it occupies, and the differing stances among
Russian leftists towards Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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THE SOVIET ENIGMA: WALDEN BELLO ON BORIS KAGARLITSKY
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_Walden Bello_ / Red Pepper (London)
Boris Kagarlitsky’s _The Long Retreat_ is of immense value in
helping us understand the causes of the Soviet tragedy, an enterprise
that is essential if the global left is to again imagine the
possibility of another world.
* Europe
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* Serbia
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* Ukraine
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* Denys Pilash
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* Hungary
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* Poland
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* Magdalena Biejat
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* Romania
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* Housing
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* Republic of Georgia
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* unions
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* Pavel Kudyukin
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* Russia
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* Soviet Union
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* Walden Bello
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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