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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — DECEMBER 3, 2025  
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December 3, 2025
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_ Europe is erupting _

A woman holds a sign that reads "We want investments in the railway
network" as union members protest against the government's austerity
measures, outside the government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania,
November 12, 2025., AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru

 

* Trump’s Peace, Lenin’s Test
* Cameroon: Leading Leftist Dies in Prison
* Europe is Erupting
* Rage in Philippines
* Venezuela Stands Against US War Moves
* Indonesia Counterinsurgency in West Papua
* South Africa: A Dairy Strike Unites Movements
* Labor/Community Rally in Montreal
* Movement Responses to COP30
* Free Marwan Barghouti!

 

__________TRUMP’S PEACE, LENIN’S TEST
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_Dmitry Pozhidaev_ / Links (Sydney)

Invoking Vladimir Lenin is not nostalgia; it is a way to keep analysis
from collapsing into moral binaries or great-power fandom. He forces
us to focus on two disciplines: first, to read war as the continuation
of class policy; and second, to hold together the inter-imperialist
struggle for redivision and the national liberation struggle of
oppressed peoples. That applies to the Ukraine war and any externally
brokered “peace”. 

__________CAMEROON: LEADING LEFTIST DIES IN PRISON
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_Jude Ndeh Asaa_ / Pan African Visions (Hyattsville MD)

Cameroon is reeling from shock, grief, and mounting political tension
after the death of Anicet Georges Ekane, at dawn on December 1, 2025,
while held under military detention. The 74-year-old president of the
African Movement for New Independence and Democracy, Ekane was the
architect of the Union for Change coalition that powered Issa
Tchiroma’s 2025 presidential campaign.

__________EUROPE IS ERUPTING

 • ITALY/PALESTINE
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  _Mohammad Jamoul _/ Al-Akhbar (Beirut)

 • UK YOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
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  _Steven Methven_ / Novara Media (London)

 • UKRAINE _SOTSIALNYI RUKH_ APPEAL
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  European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Brussels)

 • SLOVAKIA LGBTQ+
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Burgerová _/ Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

 • _FRANCE INSOUMISE_
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 _Clémence Guetté_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

 • RUSSIA’S PEACE MOVEMENT
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  _Simon Pirani and Ivan Rechnoy_ / Posle (Berlin)

 • BELGIUM SHOWDOWN
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  _Daniel Kopp_ / Progressive International

 • SPAIN: RISE AND FALL OF _PODEMOS_
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  _Lilith Verstrynge_ / The Guardian (London)

 • GERMANY: EMANCIPATION VIA TRANSFORMATION
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  _Klaus Dörre_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

 • POLAND’S FRACTURED LEFT
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Novak_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

 • PORTUGAL: GENERAL STRIKE IN SIGHT
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  / Portugal Pulse (Lisbon)

__________RAGE IN PHILIPPINES

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/ Al Jazeera (Doha)

 • DIVIDED MOVEMENT
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  _Paterno R. Esmaquel II_ / Rappler (Manila)

 • BOTTOM LINE: MARCOS AND DUTERTE MUST GO   _Walden Bello_ / via
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SQUARING THE CIRCLE

I admire the passion of Cardinal David in raging against corruption
during his speech last Sunday.  Unfortunately, that passion emerged
only in the latter part of his intervention.  For most people, the
main takeaway was what he said in the first few minutes, which was to
characterize those who went to Luneta and Mendiola as misguided or
being witting or unwitting instruments of the forces of darkness and
disorder.  

Cardinal David is a good and intelligent person, and I’m really
sorry that the organizers of the EDSA Trillion Peso Rally tasked him
with doing the impossible, which was to square the circle. 

Here’s the problem, dear Cardinal.  People are really, really angry
with a system that has facilitated mega-corruption.  Junior
[President Marcos] has come to represent the primordial evil at the
heart of that system, especially after Zaldy Co’s revelation he
pocketed 50 billion pesos, with Co personally delivering one billion
to his house.  But you’re telling the people they should not demand
that the symbol of systemic corruption take accountability and resign,
because you say there’s a greater evil--some hypothetical event like
a military coup or civil disorder-- that could ensue.  Instead, you
appeal to this symbol of corruption to lead in reforming the system!

Dear Cardinal, there was neither rational nor emotional logic to your
speech, so it is not surprising that it has triggered confusion rather
than inspiration.  

To make things worse, instead of building a bridge to the people at
Luneta and Mendiola who also want to end corruption as much those in
EDSA, you burn the bridge by telling them they are abetting disorder
and those who would bring about the “greater evil,” characterizing
those angry young people at Mendiola last September 21 as “throwers
of Molotov Cocktails.” You belittled the real anger of the people
who went to Mendiola and Luneta, on September 21 and last Sunday,
painting them simply as instruments, witting or unwitting, of dark
forces that want to install a dictatorship.  You just wrote them off,
saying, you were wrong in demanding mass resignation last September
21, and you’re still wrong today. “You should just fold up your
banners and posters, like you did then.”

Cardinal David said that people like him can play an important moral
leadership role in the difficult process of rooting out corruption.
 I fully agree.  But I would appeal to him and other moral and
political leaders to unite, not divide those who are seriously
committed to throwing out the villains like Junior and Sara [Vice
President Duterte] and transforming the system.
__________VENEZUELA STANDS AGAINST US WAR MOVES
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_Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

On November 25, tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched to defend
national sovereignty. The event, dubbed the “Great Civic-Military,
Police March for our National Flag and the Sword of Bolívar”,
brought together various groups of military personnel, police, and
civilians who demanded an end to Washington’s pressure on the
Caribbean country.

__________INDONESIA COUNTERINSURGENCY IN WEST PAPUA
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_Kristo Langker_ / Drop Site News (Washington DC)

The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency
in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla
leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.

__________SOUTH AFRICA: A DAIRY STRIKE UNITES MOVEMENTS
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_Maya Bhardwaj_ / openDemocracy (London)

From 2021 to 2022, workers from the Clover dairy company went on
strike across South Africa. The trade union GIWUSA supported rank and
file activists to demand fair pay, better working conditions, and
worker protections. Striking workers were also joined, somewhat
unusually, by Palestine solidarity activists.

__________LABOR/COMMUNITY RALLY IN MONTREAL
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CTV News (Toronto)

Quebec’s major labour unions marched in downtown Montreal, their
members expressing anger over the Quebec government’s legislative
agenda which includes a number of measures aimed at the labour
movement. Tens of thousands of Quebecers armed with noisemakers and
signs marched to Premier François Legault’s offices, condemning an
assault on workers’ rights, collective bargaining and public
services.

__________MOVEMENT RESPONSES TO COP30

 • PEOPLES’ SUMMIT
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 • ECOSOCIALISTS
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__________FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI!
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_Patrick Wintour_ / The Guardian

A global campaign is being launched to secure the release of Marwan
Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner seen by many as the best hope of
leading a future Palestinian state, as negotiations continue in the
context of the current Gaza ceasefire. The campaign, being led by
Barghouti’s West Bank-based family with UK civil society support, is
seeking to put the 66-year-old’s fate at the centre of the next
stage of the ceasefire.

* Ukraine
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* Russia
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* Vladimir Putin
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* Donald Trump
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* Vladimir Lenin
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* Cameroon
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* Anicet Ekane
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* African Movement for New Independence and Democracy
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* Italy
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* Palestine
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* UK
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* Your Party
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* Jeremy Corbyn
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* Zarah Sultana
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* Sotsialnyi Rukh
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* Slovakia
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* LGBTQ
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* France
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* France Insoumise
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* peace movement
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* Belgium
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* Spain
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* Podemos
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* Germany
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* Poland
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* Polish left
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* Portugal
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* general strike
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* Philippines
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* Cardinal David
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* Venezuela
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* Indonesia
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* West Papua
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* South Africa
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* strike
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* Palestine solidarity
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* Montreal
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* unions
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* COP30
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* Peoples' Summit
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* Ecosocialism
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* Marwan Barghouti
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