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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 9, 2025  
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April 9, 2025
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_ Hot war, cold war, trade war, class war _

Retirees confront violent police in Buenos Aires on March 12. Credit,
Argentina Humana / X

 

* Africa in the New World Disorder
* South Korea: Yoon Ousted, Unrest Grows
* Brazil’s Student Movement
* France: Militarism and Ukraine Solidarity
* Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
* Our Streets, Milei!
* UK: What Will Happen to Just Stop Oil?
* Breakthrough in Ecuador
* Labor News
* The Left After Assad’s Downfall

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AFRICA IN THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
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_William Shoki_ / Amandla! (Cape Town)

The post-liberation political order in Africa is coming apart, but
what comes next is far from clear. The erosion of ruling party
legitimacy has not yet translated into meaningful systemic
transformation. In this moment of transition, the real battle is not
just over elections but over the very nature of the state, economic
governance, and Africa’s place in a rapidly changing world order. 

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SOUTH KOREA: YOON OUSTED, UNREST GROWS
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_Youngsu Won_ / Links (Sydney)

For the millions who mobilised to demand Yoon’s ouster, the wait
between parliamentary impeachment and the court’s decision was much
too long, considering the obvious facts of the case. Once again
the importance of people’s power in establishing and consolidating
the country’s present-day democracy has been demonstrated. 

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BRAZIL’S STUDENT MOVEMENT
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_Alice Taylor_ / NACLA Report (New York)

A gathering of the largest student congress in Latin America, the
Biennial of the National Student Union united thousands of student
governing bodies across the country. The event offers a window into
youth activism and its efforts to confront the critical challenges of
our time.

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FRANCE: MILITARISM AND UKRAINE SOLIDARITY

US/RUSSIA THREAT
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  _Aurélien Saintoul, et al._ / Europe Solidaire Sans
Frontières (Paris)

UNIONS SUPPORT UKRAINIAN WORKERS
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Jequier-Zalc_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
 

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MIGRANT WORKERS IN SAUDI ARABIA
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_Sara Saidi_ / Equal Times (Brussels)

Thousands of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are victims of human
rights violations and unrelenting discrimination. “It is up to the
workers to unite before it is too late. As long as the workers abroad
can complain, write letters, join a union… they must do so, and not
remain silent,” says Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and
advocacy for ALQST, a not-for-profit human rights organisation.

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OUR STREETS, MILEI!
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_Forrest Hylton_ / London Review of Books

As Milei celebrated congressional approval of the IMF package in the
Casa Rosada, a crescendo of songs, chants, trumpets, cymbals, drums
and fireworks came from the growing crowd in the plaza in front of
Argentina’s Congress, sectioned off into three parts by police. One
banner said: ‘Stealing from pensioners is a social crime.’ 

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UK: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JUST STOP OIL?
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_Richard Hames_ / Novara Media (London)

Rapid attempts to change government policy – a ‘war of
manoeuvre’ – have given way to the broader but slower project of
trying to influence the whole of political culture, a ‘war of
position’. The criticism that Just Stop Oil focused too heavily on
spectacle at the cost of building more robust organisations had
already been anticipated by a recent change of direction in the wider
movement. 

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BREAKTHROUGH IN ECUADOR
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_Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

The candidates for the presidency of Ecuador are vying for every last
vote and seeking to establish strategic political alliances. Luisa
González, candidate of the Citizen Revolution movement (RC), who
reached 44% of the valid votes in the first electoral round, signed a
historic agreement with Pachakutik (PK). PK is the electoral arm of
the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities. 

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LABOR NEWS

MYANMAR: EXISTENTIAL THREAT
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_Khaing Zar Aung_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)

BELGIUM STRIKE
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_Roland Kulke_ / transform! europe (Vienna)

CANADIAN UNIONS AND TRADE WAR
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_Geoff Bickerton_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)

CHINA: DEFENDING WOMEN’S JOB SECURITY
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_Kloe Zheng, Peter Guo and Mithil Aggarwal _/ NBC News (New York)

UNIONS FORM UNITED FRONT IN ALBERTA
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_Charles Rusnell_ / The Tyee (Vancouver)

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THE LEFT AFTER ASSAD’S DOWNFALL
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_Ziad Wannous and Ansar Jasim_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

The ambitions of Syria’s Left are big. We want to transform Syria
into a better place. We need to form organizations and parties.
There’s no left-wing force today able to effectively organize and
effect change on its own. The Left today seeks to form cells in order
to forge alliances across ideological divisions, beyond creating rival
camps of Right versus Left or Islamists versus atheists. 

* Africa
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* Donald Trump
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* South Korea
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* Yoon Suk-yeol
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* Brazil
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* students
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* France
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* Ukraine
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* Militarism
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* immigrant workers
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* Saudi Arabia
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* Argentina
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* Javier Milei
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* UK
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* Just Stop Oil
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* Luisa González
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* Ecuador
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* Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador CONAIE
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* Labor
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* Myanmar
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* Canada
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* trade wars
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* Belgium
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* China
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* Chinese Unions
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* Women
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* Alberta
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* Syria
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* Syrian left
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