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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — OCTOBER 29, 2025
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October 29, 2025
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_ Mass unrest and power shifts _
A demonstrator in front of Congress during a protest against the
newly installed President Jose Jeri in Lima, Peru, Oct. 15, 2025.
Credit, AP photo by Martin Mejia
* Gaza Must Decide Its Fate
* United Left Parties Elect President in Ireland
* South and Central Americans Defy Threats to Venezuela
* Madagascar Youth Force President to Flee
* Mega Strike in New Zealand
* Bangladeshi Women on the Battle Front
* More Party Stirrings in UK
* Tunisia’s Mighty Union
* Indonesian Left: The Heat is On
* State of Play in Peru
__________GAZA MUST DECIDE ITS OWN FATE
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_Mahmoud Mushtaha_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)
We cannot repeat the slow death of Oslo nor replace Hamas with another
detached faction, but instead rethink the foundations of our political
culture.
__________UNITED LEFT PARTIES ELECT PRESIDENT IN IRELAND
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_Mícheál Mac Donncha_ / An Phoblacht (Dublin)
In the end she won by a landslide. It is a victory for progressive
politics as Catherine Connolly stood clearly for fair distribution of
wealth, housing as a right, Irish neutrality, solidarity with
Palestine, the Irish language and of course Irish Unity. She was
backed by Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party, People
Before Profit, the Green Party and progressive independents.
__________SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICANS DEFY THREATS TO VENEZUELA
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_Isabela Dias_ / Mother Jones (San Francisco)
The Trump administration escalated its military presence in the
Caribbean and South America by announcing the deployment of an
aircraft carrier group to the region. The expanding campaign, which
legal experts have warned violates international law and amounts to
extrajudicial killings, has raised alarm in Latin America, worsening
tensions between the Trump administration and leaders in the region.
__________MADAGASCAR YOUTH FORCE PRESIDENT TO FLEE
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_Govina Damy_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Since September 25, hundreds of protesters led by the “Gen Z
Madagascar” youth movement have been taking to the streets of
Antananarivo. By October 13, it was confirmed: President Rajoelina had
resigned. The military had taken over. Some called it liberation.
Others, a dangerous replay of history.
__________MEGA STRIKE IN NEW ZEALAND
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_Eva Corlett_ / The Guardian (London)
An estimated 100,000 nurses, teachers and public sector staff walked
off the job in New Zealand to call on the government to better fund
and resource public services, in one of the country’s largest ever
strikes. The “mega strike” brought together workers from multiple
sectors, including more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and
salaried medical specialists and 15,000 public service staff.
__________BANGLADESHI WOMEN ON THE BATTLE FRONT
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_Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay_ / Global Voices (The Hague)
Admirers across the country hailed Farzana Sithi as the “Tigress”
and “Iron Lady” of Bangladesh’s women’s resistance
movement. Sithi became a household name during the July to August
2024 protests that reshaped the nation’s political landscape and
forced top government officials to step down.
__________MORE PARTY STIRRINGS IN UK
• GREENS AND YOUR PARTY JOSTLE
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_Megan Kenyon_ / The New Statesman (London)
• GETTING IT TOGETHER
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_Adem Ay_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
• FACTIONS IN YOUR PARTY
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__________TUNISIA’S MIGHTY UNION
• GENERAL STRIKE
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• THE CHALLENGE OF UGTT
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__________INDONESIAN LEFT: THE HEAT IS ON
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_Mark Johnson and Wendy Lim_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
(Paris)
The August 2025 uprising—when tens of thousands mobilised against
parliamentary corruption and state violence, only to face brutal
repression that killed at least eleven people—has fundamentally
shaped Indonesian left media’s output over September and October.
This review examines how these publications documented the
consolidation of authoritarian power whilst theorising resistance.
__________STATE OF PLAY IN PERU
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_Dan Collyns_ / The Guardian
A youth group in Peru calling itself the Generation Z Collective says
it will continue to march in defiance of a state of emergency
declared by the government in the capital, Lima, and neighbouring
port of Callao. Group leaders said they would be honouring Eduardo
Ruiz, a rapper known as Truko, who was shot dead by a plainclothed
police officer last week during a huge anti-government march in Lima.
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* Catherine Connolly
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* Donald Trump
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* GenZ
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* Andry Rajoelina
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* New Zealand
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* Farzana Sithi
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* UK
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* Tunisia
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* Kais Saied
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* Indonesia
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* left publications
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* Peru
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* Generation Z Collective
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* Eduardo Ruiz
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