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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025
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BRASILIA: An inflatable figure, depicting Jair Bolsonaro, is erected
by protesters. Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced far-right former
President Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup. Credit,
Reuters
* The Threat to Venezuela
* Multi-Polar or Anti-Polar?
* More on Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines
* Sheinbaum’s Government Report
* West Papua Bound for Independence
* China’s Strike Wave
* Bolsonaro, His Fall
* UK Trade Union Heads Defend Palestine Action
* Chile: CP Candidate Jara Leads Polls
* Vietnam’s New Administrative Map
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THE THREAT TO VENEZUELA
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_Mark Weisbrot_ / Newsweek (New York)
The strike on the Venezuelan boat represents a new kind of war, in
which our government claims the right to summarily execute civilians
from the air in what legal experts, including from the military,
consider illegal killings. Referring to the alleged drug trafficking
boat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “Instead of interdicting
it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up. And it will happen
again.”
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MULTI-POLAR OR ANTI-POLAR?
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_Patrick Bond_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
Critics from the independent Left are doubtful about
multipolarity. The critics ally with progressive local opponents of
BRICS regimes, especially against their ruling classes and big
corporations. The result may be an “anti-polar” (or at minimum
“non-polar”) version of internationalism, in explicit opposition
to both imperialist unipolarity and subimperialist multipolarity.
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More on Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines
• NEPAL JOINS REGIONAL WAVE OF PROTEST
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_Sankha Subhra Biswas_ / Links (Sydney)
• FROM COLOMBO TO KATHMANDU
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_Hannah Ellis-Petersen__ and Gaurav Pokharel_ / The
Guardian (London)
• INDONESIA’S UPRISING
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Collective of the People’s Liberation Party_ / Asian Labour
Review (London)
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JOIN PROTEST WORLDWIDE
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_Natasya Salim_ / Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Sydney)
• IS THE PHILIPPINES NEXT?
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_Jason Gutierrez _/ Asia Times (Hong Kong)
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SHEINBAUM’S GOVERNMENT REPORT
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_Claudia Sheinbaum_ / Mexico Solidarity Media (Mexico City)
The dark neoliberal night has been left behind. It was a model that
held that the State should not intervene in development nor concern
itself with redistributing wealth, but merely create a favorable
business environment. Without an active State role aimed at ensuring
social justice, the concentration of wealth only deepens inequality
and leaves millions in poverty.
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WEST PAPUA BOUND FOR INDEPENDENCE
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_Paul Gregoire_ / Sydney Criminal Lawyers
“Indonesia is in chaos, as massive protests have erupted over
corruption, economic hardship, and police brutality,” declared West
Papuan provisional government president Benny Wenda in a 1 September
2025 statement. “I call on all my people to get ready for another
escalation back home. West Papua is ready to depart from this dying
empire.”
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CHINA’S STRIKE WAVE
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_Andra Ferrario_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
In the last thirty-three days, China’s manufacturing sector has been
swept by an unusual sequence of strikes: twenty-two collective
mobilisations across various sectors, from pharmaceuticals to
textiles, from aerospace to semiconductors. These are not isolated
episodes, but symptoms of widespread malaise.
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BOLSONARO, HIS FALL
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_F_o_rrest Hy__lto__n_ / London Review of Books
The verdict was historic in the strong sense: unlike in Argentina and
Uruguay, there has been no judicial reckoning with dictatorship in
Brazil until now The time to celebrate had come. The doorwoman and
cleaning man were smiling and laughing as they hosed off the front
steps, discussing how Trump, Bolsonaro and the Brazilian military had
met their match in Brazil’s Supreme Court.
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UK TRADE UNION HEADS DEFEND PALESTINE ACTION
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_Skwawkbox_ / The Canary (London)
On Wednesday 10 September, the same day that Keir Starmer met Israeli
president Isaac Herzog, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) at its annual
meeting – which represents over 5 million workers – unanimously
passed a motion calling on the Starmer regime to repeal its
proscription order banning Palestine Action, a non-violent UK direct
action group, as terrorists.
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CHILE: CP CANDIDATE JARA LEADS POLLS
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_Nyki Duda_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
More than 50 years after Augusto Pinochet’s coup, apologists for its
neoliberal dictatorship are close to taking office. But Communist
Jeannette Jara could block them from taking power.
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VIETNAM’S NEW ADMINISTRATIVE MAP
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_Hai Thanh Nguyen and Phan Le_ / East Asia Forum (Canberra)
On 1 July 2025, Vietnam implemented its largest administrative reform
since reunification, consolidating provinces, abolishing districts and
streamlining bureaucracy. The reform reorients development strategies,
centralises political power and opens opportunities for infrastructure
investment, while posing challenges in balancing centralisation with
effective decision-making.
* Venezuela
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* multipolarity
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* Nepal
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* Indonesia
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* Philippines
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* gen z
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* Mexico
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* West Papua
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* China
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* Strikes
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* Brazil
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* Jair Bolsonaro
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* UK
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* Trades Union Congress
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* Palestine
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* Palestine Action
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* Chile
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* Jeannette Jara
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* Vietnam
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