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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 14, 2025
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May 14, 2025
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_ Observations and reporting on South Asia tensions _
A peace rally in Lahore on May 6, 2025. Credit, ARIF ALI, AFP Via
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* The Spirit of Bandung
* South Asia Left Party Statements and Comments
* China in the Mix
* Winning in Sri Lanka
* Where is the Bangladesh Left?
* Workers on the March in India
* Pink Wave Boosts Akbayan Party in Philippines
* Unions and Gaza Solidarity
* Left vs Right in the European Parliament
* Union Leader on the Billionaires’ Coup
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THE SPIRIT OF BANDUNG
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_Walden Bello and Shalmali Guttal_ / Foreign Policy in Focus
(Washington DC)
The very first principle of the Bandung Declaration urged “Respect
for fundamental human rights and for the purposes and the principles
of the Charter of the United Nations.” Nehru, Nasser, and Zhou En
Lai played stellar roles in Bandung, but can it be said that the
governments they represented have remained faithful to this principle?
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SOUTH ASIA LEFT PARTY STATEMENTS AND COMMENTS
* FOR DE-ESCALATION AND PEACE
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_CPIML (Liberation) et al._ / Links (Sydney)
* CPIM: WHAT NOT TO DO
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Democracy (New Delhi)
* APING MODI? [[link removed]]
_Aasim Sajjad Akhtar_ / Dawn (Karachi)
* CP OF PAKISTAN: CLASS WAR NOT INDO-PAK WAR
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/ Solidnet
* JAMMU KASHMIR AWAMI WORKERS PARTY
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Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
* HEAR THE VOICES OF KASHMIR
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_Vaishna Roy_ / Frontline (Mumbai)
* ON THE BRINK?
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CHINA IN THE MIX
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_Antara Ghosal Singh_ / Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi)
China is worried that India will reduce tariffs imposed on imports
from the United States in exchange for technology, energy and security
cooperation, and may even agree to purchase certain American
agricultural products, complicating Beijing’s trade war strategy
vis-à-vis the US.
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WINNING IN SRI LANKA
* NPP STILL AHEAD
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_PTI News Agency_ / The Indian Express (Noida)
* MAY DAY
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_PTI News Agency_ / ThePrint (New Delhi)
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WHERE IS THE BANGLADESH LEFT?
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_Saqlain Rizve_ / The Diplomat (Arlington VA)
xxxxxx UPDATE: The former ruling party Awami League was banned from
any activity, by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. Go HERE
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WORKERS ON THE MARCH IN INDIA
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_Vijay Prashad_ / Globetrotter
The joint platform of trade unions that brings together most of the
confederations of unions met in Delhi to announce a nationwide general
strike on 20 May 2025 for higher minimum wages and fixed working hours
as well as for a rollback of the government’s anti-worker
policies.
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PINK WAVE BOOSTS AKBAYAN PARTY IN PHILIPPINES
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_Via Bianca Ramones_ / Daily Tribune (Manila)
In a historic twist in the 2025 party-list elections, Akbayan
Party-list, led by renowned human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel”
Diokno, has surged to the top spot based on partial, unofficial
results released by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Through
this system, 20 percent of seats in the lower house are reserved for
parties representing marginalized and underrepresented sectors.
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UNIONS AND GAZA SOLIDARITY
* SWEDISH DOCKWORKERS
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_Arthur Neslen_ / Equal Times (Brussels)
* NORWEGIAN CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS
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/ Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace WA)
* TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH IN BRUSSELS
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/ VRT (Brussels)
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LEFT VS RIGHT IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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_Denys Pilash, Li Andersson and Jonas Sjöstedt_ / Commons (Kiev)
As long as the far right stays in opposition, they can cultivate the
illusion that they’re on the side of workers, of “ordinary
people.” But once in power, it becomes clear: they’re just racist
right-wingers with an aggressively pro-business economic agenda.
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UNION LEADER ON THE BILLIONAIRES’ COUP
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_Luc Triangle_ / International Trade Union Confederation (Brussels)
Decades of deregulation and neoliberalism have fuelled distrust,
enabling a dangerous rise of new forms of fascism and
authoritarianism. Today, a loose alliance of billionaires, tech elites
and far-right forces is exploiting economic despair and institutional
weakness to dismantle democracy. It is time not just to repair the
broken, but to reimagine what is possible.
* Bandung Conference
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* India
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* Pakistan
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* Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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* CPIML-L
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* Haqooq-e-Khalq Party
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* Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation
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* Southasia Peace Action Network
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* Asia Europe People’s Forum
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* Communist Party of Pakistan
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* Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party
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* Frontline Magazine
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* Tariq Ali
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* China
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* trade war
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* Sri Lanka
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* Bangladesh
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* Indian workers
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* Philippines
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* Akbayan
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* Gaza
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* Sweden
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* Norway
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* Solidarity with Palestine
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* Belgium
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* European Parliment
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* Finland
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* Finland Left Alliance
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* Swedish Left Party
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* Luc Triangle
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* International Trade Union Confederation
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* Billionaires
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* Kashmir
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