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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — SEPTEMBER 3, 2025  
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September 3, 2025
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_ News From Asia: Workers Are Breaking Out _

May Day (1924) – a painting by Kanji Maeta. Credit, Tsukublog

 

* Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First
Century
* Tech Workers and Rising Class Consciousness in China
* Strikers in Pakistan
* Unions Win Reform of South Korea’s Labor Law
* Hong Kong Cleaning Workers Push Back
* Two Worlds of Indonesian Politics
* Hope and _Die Linke ___
* African Indigenous Women on the Move
* UK Greens Take a Big Step Left
* Live Blog: Flotilla Back Making Its Way to Gaza

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POWER, CONTROL, INEQUALITY, AND DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Monthly Review (New York)

Control and regulation of capitalist processes in the larger social
interest are needed by democracy. But capitalism has mutated into a
form in which the drive for appropriating economic rents dominates
over the pursuit of profits _per se_, which has generally been seen as
the driving force of capitalism.

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TECH WORKERS AND RISING CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN CHINA
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_JS Tan_ / Asian Labor Review (Seoul)

With rising class consciousness in tech sectors in both the U.S. and
China, how can tech workers in these two countries come together.
When we are hearing politicians use phrases like the “AI-arms
race,” or the “tech cold war,” the question of co-existence
cannot be left to politicians and the tech elites.

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STRIKERS IN PAKISTAN
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_Farooq Tariq_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

More than forty labor organizations, social movements, and political
parties have demanded the immediate acceptance of the demands of the
striking workers of Faisalabad.

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UNIONS WIN REFORM OF SOUTH KOREA’S LABOR LAW
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Hankyoreh (Seoul)

A package of amendments to the Trade Union and Labor Relations
Adjustment Act was finally passed by the National Assembly in a
plenary session. They guarantee practical bargaining rights to workers
while restricting the ability of firms to demand compensation for
operational losses or damaged property resulting from strikes. 

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HONG KONG CLEANING WORKERS PUSH BACK
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HK Labour Rights Monitor (Hong Kong)

A sit-in protest by cleaners at Hong Kong Baptist University forced
the outsourcing contractor to concede, winning cleaners a monthly
allowance of between HK$300 and HK$500. This seemingly modest victory
became a rare spark of resistance in a city overshadowed by political
suppression.

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TWO WORLDS OF INDONESIAN POLITICS
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_Edward Aspinall_ / New Mandala (Canberra)

August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a
subculture of street protest that echoes the anti-Suharto activism of
the 1990s. In opposing the new form of patronage politics _Reformasi_
gave rise to, today’s protesters pursue goals no less daunting than
those of the movement that brought down the New Order.

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HOPE AND _DIE LINKE_
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_Klaus Dörre_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

Electoral success is one thing, but translating it into a tangible
revitalization of left-wing socialist politics is a long-term
challenge that remains to be tackled. _Die Linke_ has been given a
mandate to represent the anti-fascist opposition and to take action in
the new cycle of struggle ahead of us.

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AFRICAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN ON THE MOVE
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_Temwani Mgunda_ / Dialogue Earth (London)

Indigenous women in Africa are protecting the environmental rights of
their communities in the face of steep legal barriers and patriarchal
norms. At the same time, they are reviving ecological grazing
techniques, encouraging the planting of drought-resistant crops, and
leading efforts to diversify livelihoods.

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UK GREENS TAKE A BIG STEP LEFT
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_Adam Ramsay_ / Novara Media (London)

Recent leadership elections show a new radical consensus among Greens
across the UK – one that’s been developing for a while. The
changing makeup of the Green party, and now its leadership, also
reflects a generational shift in the country.

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LIVE BLOG: FLOTILLA BACK MAKING ITS WAY TO GAZA
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_Justin Salhani, Simon Speakman Cordall and Lyndal Rowlands_ / Al
Jazeera (Doha)

* democracy
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* capitalism
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* The State
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* China
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* tech workers
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* class consciousness
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* Pakistan
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* strike at Faisalabad
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* South Korea
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* Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act
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* Hong Kong
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* cleaning workers
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