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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 21, 2025
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May 21, 2025
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_ War, peace, fascism and imperialism _
A commemoration of the people who fought against fascism on the 80th
anniversary of the liberation of Italy. Credit, EPA
* For a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now
* This Century’s “Lenin Moment”
* Indian and Pakistani Feminists Call for Peace
* What’s Doing in Mexico
* The Cause of Western Sahara
* Samsung’s Union Battle
* Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré
* Antifascist Legacy Blocks Far Right Push
* The Global Peasant Movement in a World in Crisis
* Mujica, the Humble President
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FOR A DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW
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Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man (Ramallah)
Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights
organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The
manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international
community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and
legal responsibility.
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THIS CENTURY’S “LENIN MOMENT”
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_Emiliano Brancaccio_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The global turmoil we observe today could be christened something like
a “Lenin moment”. The reference, however, is not to Vladimir Lenin
the Bolshevik revolutionary per se, so much as Lenin the indefatigable
scholar who, at the outset of World War I, penned his famous essay
on _Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism_, a text that is
highly useful in understanding historical trends to this day.
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INDIAN AND PAKISTANI FEMINISTS CALL FOR PEACE
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_Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, et al._ / South Asia Citizens’
Web
We, feminists from India and Pakistan, unequivocally welcome the
ceasefire declared by our two nations today. The tension and
escalation of the last fortnight remind us of how fragile peace is.
The ceasefire is also a vindication of calls for de-escalation and
peace by lakhs of ordinary people on both sides of the border.
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WHAT’S DOING IN MEXICO
• SHEINBAUM RETURNS STOLEN LAND TO WIXÁRIKA
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/ Esperanza Project (Guadalajara)
• BUILDING DIGITAL DEFENSES AGAINST BIG TECH COLONIALISM
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_Tamara Pearson_ / Truthout (Sacramento)
• TEACHERS WIN PAY HIKE WITH PRESIDENT’S BLESSING
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/ Mexico News Daily (Guadalajara)
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THE CAUSE OF WESTERN SAHARA
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_Dr. Isabel Lourenço_ / The Pan Afrikanist
In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of
Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive
military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution,
and, above all, a web of international complicity. It is a territory
exploited, dominated, and manipulated to serve the economic and
geopolitical interests of a metropolis aligned with imperialism.
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SAMSUNG’S UNION BATTLE
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_Kap Seol_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Last year saw a historic strike by workers at Samsung, the Korean
electronics firm with a global footprint. Yet the National Samsung
Electronics Union (NSEU) that organized the strike has since stumbled
over an old practice in South Korea’s labor movement — one often
used to drive a wedge between the leadership and the rank-and-file
members.
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BURKINA FASO’S IBRAHIM TRAORÉ
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_Abubakar Isah_ / Modern Ghana (Accra)
A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Capt
Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist
leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the
clutches of Western imperialism and neo-colonialism. But is he a true
torchbearer or merely a fleeting fire?
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ANTIFASCIST LEGACY BLOCKS FAR RIGHT PUSH
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_Juan Masullo and Simone Cremaschi_ / The Conversation (Waltham MA)
Using an original dataset mapping resistance activity in 1943-1945,
across about 8,000 Italian municipalities, we compared places with
strong partisan mobilisation to those without. Even today, eight
decades later, residents of areas with a resistance past are more
likely to support initiatives that counter far-right ideologies.
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THE GLOBAL PEASANT MOVEMENT IN A WORLD IN CRISIS
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Real World Radio (Montevideo)
The upcoming 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum to take place in September
2025, is set to be one of those milestones that shape the history of
peoples’ struggles, in this case, the struggles of peasant movements
and organisations that promote food sovereignty, alongside all the
organisations that carry that banner in every corner of the planet.
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MUJICA, THE HUMBLE PRESIDENT
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_Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Alberto Mujica Cordano
died from cancer on May 13. As the ex-guerrilla himself stated: “You
are going to grow old and you are going to have wrinkles, and one day
you are going to look in the mirror and you will have to ask yourself,
on that day, if you betrayed the child you had inside you.”
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* starvation
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* imperialism
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* Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism
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* India
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* Pakistan
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* feminists
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* peace
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* Mexico
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* indigenous land
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* Wixárika
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* Big Tech
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* Teachers
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* Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación
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* Western Sahara
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* Samsung
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* National Samsung Electronics Union
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* South Korea
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* Burkina Faso
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* Ibrahim Traoré
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* Italy
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* antifascism
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* peasant movement
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* Nyéléni Global Forum
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* Uruguay
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* José Mujica
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