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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 16, 2025
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April 16, 2025
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_ A week for general strikes _
24-hour strike in Athens, April 9, 2025. Credit, Al Jazeera
* Greenlanders Respond to Trump
* Scientists Oppose EU Rearmament
* Nigeria Heats Up
* Citizens’ Assemblies in the Balkans
* Party Politics
* General Strikes
* Ukraine Solidarity Meeting in Brussels
* South Korean Youth
* Quebec Left Looks Ahead
* Irish Revolutionaries Against the Russian Empire
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GREENLANDERS RESPOND TO TRUMP
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_Holly Williams_ / CBS News (New York)
Two thousand miles north of Washington, in Greenland’s capital,
Nuuk, they’re watching with anxiety and anger. Aaja Chemnitz, one of
Greenland’s representatives in Denmark’s Parliament, said, “If
we were to be American, it would mean that we would lose our language.
We would lose a culture.”
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SCIENTISTS OPPOSE EU REARMAMENT
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_Carlo Rovelli, Flavio Del Santo and Francesca Vidotto _/
International Union of Scientists
Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm
the European Union. They have released “Scientists against
rearmament - A manifesto” and are calling on scientists, engineers,
medical professionals, mathematicians, scholars, and the broader
science community to support their stance.
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NIGERIA HEATS UP
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_Baba Aye_ / Links (Sydney)
This is for us to draw lessons from them so that we can be better
prepared and more strategically oriented and thus able to deepen
incoming mass storms of revolts towards revolution. The three
milestones of mass struggle in 21st century Nigeria have been the
#OccupyNigeria January Uprising in 2012, #EndSARS Rebellion in 2020
and the #EndBadGovernance/#EndHunger protests in 2024.
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CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLIES IN THE BALKANS
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_Yavor Tarinski_ / Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (Athens)
In different temporal and spatial realities, in moments of social
upheaval, societies begin to move and self-organize. Nowadays the
institutional expression of this rebellious creativity is carried by
social movements around the world when resisting injustice. We witness
it also in the Balkans, where a particular grassroots institution
persistently makes its appearance at every major upheaval –
plenums.
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PARTY POLITICS
* ANOTHER RADICAL LEFT EUROPARTY
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_Vladimir Bortun_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
* NEW LEADERS, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CP INDIA (MARXIST)
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_Nikhila Henry_ / The Indian Express (Noida)
* PROSPECTS FOR LULA AND THE PT
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_Olavo Passos de Souza_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
* PORTUGAL CP AND LEFT BLOC
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Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
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GENERAL STRIKES
* WEST BANK
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_Nader Durgham_ / Middle East Eye (London)
* ARGENTINA
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_Brett Wilkins_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
* GREECE
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_Angeliki Koutantou and Stamos Prousalis_ / Reuters (London)
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UKRAINE SOLIDARITY MEETING IN BRUSSELS
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_Dick Nichols_ / Green Left (Sydney)
The Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference on March 26–27
drew together about 200 activists from a score of countries. It took
up dialogue and collaboration between Ukraine’s many social
movements, Ukraine solidarity groups and Members of the European
Parliament (MEPs) and national MPs from left, green, social-democratic
and progressive national independence formations.
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SOUTH KOREAN YOUTH
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_Park Hyun-jung and Chung In-seon_ / Hankyoreh (Seoul)
Witnessing and participating in the mass protests that fostered broad
solidarity and led to the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol, has spurred
many young Koreans, especially women and LGBTQ+ Koreans, to become
interested in labor organizing and political engagement.
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QUEBEC LEFT LOOKS AHEAD
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_Bernard Rioux_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
The ecosocialist and ecofeminist left must oppose an electoralist
strategy for building a government party claiming to be realistic.
Instead it should aim to build power in society by strengthening
democratic expression, combativeness, and unity of different
anti-systemic social movements. This approach, both to the social
left and to Québec solidaire, aims to rally a popular majority.
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BACKSTORY: IRISH REVOLUTIONARIES AGAINST THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
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_Maurice J. Casey_ / Meduza (Riga)
_Hotel Lux_ author Maurice J. Casey looks back on the period from
the 1880s to the 1920s, when Irish revolutionaries and a variety of
radicals mobilizing against the Russian Empire found causes for
comparison, solidarity, and even collaboration.
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