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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 20, 2025
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August 20, 2025
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_ The masks are coming off _
Supporters of opposition parties in the neighbourhood of Yopougon,
Ivory Coast, call for an inclusive presidential election in October
2025. Credit, AFP - ISSOUF SANOGO
* Massive Nationwide Protests in Israel Defy Netanyahu
* Cuban Youth Weigh In
* Striking Flight Attendants Win in Canada
* Bolivia: The Downfall of MAS
* Ivory Coast Protests for Fair Elections
* Drawing Class Lines in Venezuela
* Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré
* UK Labor Movement Wants Action on a Murderous Climate
* Tunisian Electrical Unions Win
* Hiroshima Voices
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MASSIVE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS IN ISRAEL DEFY NETANYAHU
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_Amy Goodman and Oren Ziv_ / Democracy Now! (New York)
Massive protests have erupted in Israel, with about 500,000 people
marching in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza.
Organizers say 1 million took part in demonstrations across the entire
country. Most of the Israelis who were out on the streets “blame
Netanyahu” for prioritizing his political survival over an end to
the war.
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CUBAN YOUTH WEIGH IN
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_Rafael Hernández_ / On Cuba News (Miami)
A revolutionary process cannot be content with itself, nor can it
accept forms of oppression, bureaucracy, corruption, according to
Fidel Castro himself. It must optimize the timeframe for change so
that people feel their living conditions are improving, rather than a
future so distant that it never arrives, and where they stop feeling
like victims and become active social subjects.
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STRIKING FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WIN IN CANADA
• WHAT THEY WON
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_Pete Syme_ / Business Insider (New York).
• HOW OTTAWA LOST
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_Barry Eidlin_ / The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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BOLIVIA: THE DOWNFALL OF MAS
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_Pablo Stefanoni_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Bolivians voted on 17th August. In the presidential election, the
left was eliminated in the first round. The once powerful Movement
Towards Socialism (MAS), Bolivia’s main left-wing party founded by
Evo Morales, faced the electoral process divided into three
factions. A question mark opens about the political stability of the
future rightist government.
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IVORY COAST PROTESTS FOR FAIR ELECTIONS
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
President Alassane Ouattara is attempting to grab office for a fourth
term by barring both main contestants from running for the upcoming
election in October. Tens of thousands took to the streets in the
capital, Abidjan, on Saturday, August 9, demanding that his opponents,
Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, be allowed to contest.
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DRAWING CLASS LINES IN VENEZUELA
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_Salvador De León and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)
A member of the _Comité Autónomo e Independiente de
Trabajadores(as)_ (Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee,
CAIT) looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade
unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and
defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective.
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BURKINA FASO’S IBRAHIM TRAORÉ
• VISIONARY...?
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_Muhammad Hassan-Tom_ / 21st Century Chronicle (Abuja)
• ...OR DESPOT?
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_Rahmane Idrissa_ / Amandla! (Cape Town)
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UK LABOR MOVEMENT WANTS ACTION ON A MURDEROUS CLIMATE
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_Rory O’Neill_ / Hazards Magazine (Sheffield, UK)
As the UK sat sandwiched between deadly ‘heat domes’ in the US and
mainland Europe, the TUC honed its final preparations for a 14-21 July
2025 trade union week of action on workplace heat hazards. As a
third heatwave of the summer left workers sweltering, more than 1,000
trade union health and safety reps signed up to take part in workplace
heat inspections.
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TUNISIAN ELECTRICAL UNIONS WIN
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_Elyes Ben Ammar and Lala Peñaranda_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
The combination of clear union demands, sustained union pressure, and
a strike announcement were successful in leading to a negotiation
session between the unions (UGTT and FGEG), the government and key
ministries, and the state-owned Tunisian Electricity and Gas
Company. The unions critiqued government measures and legislation
that threaten the right to (public) electricity.
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HIROSHIMA VOICES
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_Masako Toki_ / The Converstion (Waltham MA)
Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in
war. Those who survived – known as _Hibakusha_ – have carried
their suffering as living testimony to the catastrophic humanitarian
consequences of nuclear war, with one key wish: that no one else
will suffer as they have.
* Israel
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* War on Gaza
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* Hostages
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* Cuba
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* Canada
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* strike
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* Flight Attendants
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* Canadian Union of Public Employees
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* Bolivia
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* Movimiento al Socialismo
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* elections
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* Ivory Coast
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* Alassane Ouattara
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* Venezuela
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* Comité Autónomo e Independiente de Trabajadores
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* Burkina Faso
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* Ibrahim Traoré
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* UK
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* Trades Union Council
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* workplace safety
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* Tunisia
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* electrical workers
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* public energy
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* Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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* Japan
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* hibakusha
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