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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JULY 2, 2025
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July 2, 2025
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_ The old world is dying. Can the new world be born? _
Budapest's Elisabeth Bridge is filled with Pride, June 29, 2025, in
the face of a ban by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government. Credit,
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* International Forum for Peace 2025
* A Communist Leads Chilean Left’s Presidential Bid
* The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia
* Euro Parties
* Togo Youth Protest Forever President
* Mass Strikes in Panama
* Budapest Pride Defies Orban
* Baloch Insurgents vs Pakistan’s State
* Venezuela in Transition
* Can the Global South Stop Genocide?
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INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR PEACE 2025
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European Left (Brussels)
As global conflicts intensify—from Gaza to Ukraine, from the Congo
to Yemen—the call for peace is more urgent than ever. In response,
more than 50 delegations from around the world convened in Brussels
for the International Forum for Peace 2025. Taking place just days
before the NATO Summit in The Hague, the Forum served as a powerful
counterpoint to rising militarisation.
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A COMMUNIST LEADS CHILEAN LEFT’S PRESIDENTIAL BID
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_Nicolás Saldías_ / Americas Quarterly (New York)
Jeannette Jara of the _Partido Comunista de Chile_ was chosen as the
presidential candidate of the left-wing _Unidad por Chile_ (UC)
coalition on June 29. While Chile is known for its tradition of
moderate politics, Jara’s primary win and the emergence of
hard-right candidates point to a more polarized run-up to the
first-round vote on November 16.
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THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AUTOCRACY IN ASIA
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_Ross Perlin_ / Dissent (New York)
Young Asian activists in the early twenty-first century are using milk
tea to talk about democracy and human rights. According to a sharp
new report, _The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against
Autocracy and Beijing_, the drink has become a regional symbol of
solidarity shared by very different but nonetheless kindred movements.
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EURO PARTIES
• _LA FRANCE INSOUMISE_ MEP’S IDF ORDEAL
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_Filippo Ortona_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
• PORTUGAL’S DEMOCRATIC TWILIGHT
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_Francisco Louçã_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
• DANISH RED GREEN ALLIANCE EP REPORT
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• UKRAINE’S _SOTSIALNYI RUKH_ ON FIGHTING FASCISM
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_Oleksandr Kyselov _/ Соціальний рух (Kyiv)
• DUTCH GROUPS TALKING MERGER
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Kouters_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
• _POTERE AL POPOLO_ INFILTRATED BY ITALIAN POLICE
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_Ana Vračar_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
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TOGO YOUTH PROTEST FOREVER PRESIDENT
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_Sertan Sanderson_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
The “Hands Off My Constitution” coalition of civic groups and
opposition leaders in Togo has called for further protests to oppose
what it has referred to as a “constitutional coup.” Since
independence from France, the country has been marked by single-party
rule and a personality cult for the leader.
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MASS STRIKES IN PANAMA
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_Octavio García Soto_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
In a country with little left-wing politics, Panama’s nearly
two-month-long strike movement has shown the power of organized labor.
The government has responded with repression, acting as a rearguard
for multinationals like Chiquita.
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BUDAPEST PRIDE DEFIES ORBAN
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_Nick Thorpe_ / BBC (London)
Between 100,000 and 200,000 mostly young people danced and sang their
way from Pest to Buda. A distance that usually takes only 20 minutes
on foot stretched to three hours. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban
spurred many to attend an event they usually stay away from. Last
year, just 35,000 took part. It was a peaceful revenge by those he
has declared war on during his past 15 years in power.
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BALOCH INSURGENTS VS PAKISTAN’S STATE
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_Roshaan Khattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley_ / Red Pepper (London)
There is a war raging in Balochistan, with a spiral of violence that
features appalling state terror, thousands of
enforced disappearances and ongoing guerrilla warfare. While
Balochistan is not a classical colony under an external European
empire, many Baloch nationalists view their relationship with
Islamabad as comparable to an internal colonial arrangement.
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VENEZUELA IN TRANSITION
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_John Brown and Atenea Jiménez_ / Links (Sydney)
Has a movement organization or party emerged with the capacity to
challenge the leadership of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party of
Venezuela (PSUV)? Interviews with figures from communes movements,
leftist parties, former/current PSUV figures, and participants in
popular organizations, detail the challenges facing critical sectors
today.
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CAN THE GLOBAL SOUTH STOP GENOCIDE?
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_Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla and Ken Roth_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Nine countries have come together to form The Hague Group in support
of Palestinian rights. Their goal is to take coordinated legal,
economic, and diplomatic measures against Israel’s ongoing actions
in Gaza and beyond. The countries that came together to make up the
Hague Group include South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia, Cuba, Bolivia,
Honduras, Namibia, Senegal and Belize.
* International Forum for Peace 2025
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* peace
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* Jeannette Jara
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* Chile
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* Communist Party of Chile
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* autocracy
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* Asia
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* China
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* Europe
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* La France Insoumise
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* Red Green Alliance
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* European Parliment
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* Ukraine
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* Anti-Fascism
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* the Netherlands
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* Italy
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* Potere al Popolo
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* Togo
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* Panama
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* Hungary
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* Pride
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* Victor Orban
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* Venezuela
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* Global South
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* Genocide
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* The Hague Group
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