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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — SEPTEMBER 10, 2025  
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September 10, 2025
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_ The planet in play _

, La Via Campesina

 

* Via Campesina: Reclaim Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power!
* “Block Everything!” France Ignites 
* Xi Platforms East and South Unity
* Bolivia: MAS Era Ends
* Gen Z Rebellions Are Making History Today
* Feminist Fights
* Global Protests for Myanmar
* UK Palestine Action Shuts an Arms Facility
* Puerto Ricans March for Independence
* If We Must Die

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_VIA CAMPESINA_: RECLAIM SOVEREIGNTY, DISMANTLE CORPORATE POWER!
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_La Via Campesina_

The most concrete step towards tackling corporate impunity at the
international legal sphere lies in elaborating an effective legally
binding treaty to regulate transnational corporations in international
law. The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle
Corporate Power and Stop Impunity is the next step.

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“BLOCK EVERYTHING!” FRANCE IGNITES
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_Khyati Rajvanshi_ / The Indian Express (Noida)

France witnessed widespread unrest on Wednesday as protesters launched
a nationwide day of action dubbed “Block Everything”, disrupting
roads, schools, and transport hubs. The movement, which began online
in May, has grown into a broad expression of discontent against
President Emmanuel Macron’s austerity plans.

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XI PLATFORMS EAST AND SOUTH UNITY

 • GEOPOLITICAL SCENARIO
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 _Matteo Meloni_ / SpecialEurasia (Rome)

 • CHINA’S GRAND GLOBAL PLAN
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 _Brian YS Wong and Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa_ / Asia Times
(Hong Kong)

 • A COPERNICAN REVOLUTION?   _Pablo Pillaud-Vivien_ / Regards
(Paris)

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In Beijing on September 3, it was not only the memory of the 1945
victory that was evoked. By inviting Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and
other leaders to attend the largest military parade in Chinese
history, Xi Jinping sent a clear political message: the world's center
of gravity is shifting. Or rather, it is splintering—and it will no
longer be in the West.

A few days earlier, in Tianjin (China’s fourth largest city), the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting had already brought together
a gathering unprecedented since Donald Trump’s election: Putin and
Xi, but also Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, Turkey’s Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, India’s Narendra
Modi, and Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif. This diverse but significant
Eurasian assembly says something about a world undergoing rapid
change. It coexists with the BRICS, which also includes South Africa
and Brazil. By inviting Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and other leaders
to attend the largest military parade in Chinese history, Xi Jinping
sent a clear political message: the world's center of gravity is
shifting. Or rather, it is splintering—and it will no longer be in
the West.

This is not about proclaiming an artificial unity of the Global South:
each of these countries follows its own logic and pursues its own
interests, which are sometimes conflicting. But they all share the
same desire: to regain their place in the concert of nations after
decades, even centuries, of subjugation and sometimes humiliation.
They reject the Western universalism imposed as the only horizon since
colonization and intend to reaffirm that their long history
establishes another legitimacy.

The banner chosen to illustrate this event (and which we have chosen
to illustrate the article) is revealing. Unlike in previous years, the
inscriptions are in Sanskrit, Russian, and Chinese. There are no Roman
letters, no words in English. For a Westerner, it is unreadable. This
is exactly what billions of human beings experience in the face of the
dominance of English: the impossibility of reading, understanding, or
accessing. Yet this symbolic reversal marks a setback, albeit
temporary, for the Latin alphabet, which has structured part of global
exchanges for centuries. For how much longer?

This shift is accompanied by others: China is now one of the world’s
leading scientific and technological powers, filing more patents each
year than the United States or Europe. The challenge to the dollar's
dominance is being discussed among countries that do not speak
English. This is happening without the West. It is not only the
decline of France or Europe that is at stake, but the destabilization
of the global architecture that emerged in 1945. In other words, it is
American hegemony itself that is faltering. Hegemony that Europe had
placed itself in the wake of. Donald Trump’s arrival in power has
acted as a catalyst, as well as a symptom, precipitating the
affirmation of another possible order in the South.

Should we support Chinese, Russian, Turkish, or Iranian projects? No.
All these countries are questionable in their consideration of human
rights and are not without imperialist ambitions. But we must not
consider them our inevitable enemies. Because there will be no
solution without these countries, without their peoples. The idea of
forcing Russia to back down or keeping China at bay is a harmful
illusion that only leads to violence.

The danger for us Europeans would be to react by becoming tense,
withdrawing, thinking that all this is robbing us of something. This
is one of the root causes of the rise of the far right in all Western
countries. However, this movement is not primarily a divestment of the
West: it is the affirmation of peoples who have long been despised in
the great concert of nations and the world and who are now regaining
power.

We must accept this as a Copernican revolution. Just as women have
fought for equality with men, the peoples of the South are reminding
us that Westerners are not superior to others. They are our equals.
The challenge now is to understand each other—and above all, to want
to understand each other.

 • DEVELOPMENT BANK VS SANCTIONS
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 • XI’S STATEMENT
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 _Xi Jinping_ / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of
China (Beijing)

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BOLIVIA: MAS ERA ENDS
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_Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift_ / NACLA Report (New York)

A nearly two-decade era of Indigenous-oriented governance and
anti-neoliberal politics has come to an end in Bolivia. The Movement
towards Socialism (MAS) government, which launched in the early 2000s
with great hopes and optimism, is closing with disappointment and
economic chaos.

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GEN Z REBELLIONS ARE MAKING HISTORY TODAY

 • FURY IN NEPAL
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 _Jayanta Roy Chowdhury_ / The Wire (New Delhi)

 • THE INDONESIA CRISIS
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 _Natasya Salim_ / Australian Broadcasting Corporation (New South
Wales)

 • SERBIAN STUDENTS VS POLICE
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 _Milica Stojanovic_ / Balkan Insight (Belgrade)

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FEMINIST FIGHTS

 • UKRAINE: THE FEMINISTS OF BILKIS
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Le Tréhondat and Yana_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

 • CHINA: FEMINISTS FIGHTING BACK
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 _Jinhan Li_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

 • ANTI-FGM IN GAMBIA
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 _Kaddy Jawo_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

 • AFGHAN WOMEN PERSEVERE
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 _Sarah Hamidi_ / Feminist Majority Foundation (Washington DC)

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GLOBAL PROTESTS FOR MYANMAR
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_Mong Palatino_ / Global Voices (The Hague)

Protests were held in Myanmar and various cities across the world to
mark the 37th anniversary of the August 8, 1988, uprising for
democracy (which came to be known as “8888”) and to call for the
ousting of the junta, which grabbed power through a military coup in
February 2021.

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UK PALESTINE ACTION SHUTS AN ARMS FACILITY
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_Haroon Siddique and Jamie Grierson_ / The Guardian (London)

An Israeli arms manufacturer’s facility in Bristol which was
repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action appears to have closed
unexpectedly. The Elbit Systems UK site in the Aztec West business
park was the subject of dozens of protests, including on 1 July, days
before the direct action group was banned under the Terrorism Act.

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PUERTO RICANS MARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE
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_Alberto C. Medina_ / The Latino Newsletter (Boston)

Thousands of people marched for Puerto Rican independence on Sunday,
August 31, as boricuas, young and old, hit the streets to denounce
colonialism and demand sovereignty for the long-suffering U.S.
territory. Puerto Ricans and their allies came together in San Juan,
and at satellite marches in major cities across the US.

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IF WE MUST DIE
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_Nourdine Shnino_ / The Progressive (Madison)

I am now displaced with my small family in the al-Nasser neighborhood
in western Gaza City. My family has decided that we will remain where
we are. If death comes, it will find us inside our home in
al-Nasser—not on the road and not in another exile. Better to die
standing in our place than to wander endlessly, stripped of every
dignity.

 

 

 

 

 

* La Via Campesina
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* Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty
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* Bolivia
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* Movimiento al Socialismo
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* France
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* Block Everything
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* mass protest
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* Xi Jinping
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* Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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* 2025 SCO summit
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* China
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* SCO Development Bank
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* gen z
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* Serbia
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* Indonesia
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* Nepal
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* feminists
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* Ukraine
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* Bilkis
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* female genital mutilation
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* Gambia
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* Afghanistan
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* Myanmar
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* UK
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* Palestine Action
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* Elbit Systems UK
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* Puerto Rico
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* Puerto Rican independence
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* Gaza
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