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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — JANUARY 7, 2026
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January 7, 2026
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_ A time to try our souls _
Government supporters demand President Nicolas Maduro’s release
from U.S. custody during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan.
4, 2026., AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos
* Violation of Venezuela
* The State of Democracy
* Behind Iran Protests
* A Factory Occupation for the Climate
* Palestine’s Path Forward
* Africa: Hard Looks Back
* Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Organize
* A Few Major Setbacks in 2025
* Canadian Labor’s Year
* Trump on the Prowl for Euroleft Antifa Groups
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VIOLATION OF VENEZUELA
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_Luís Bonilla-Molina_ / Green Left (Sydney)
The international legal system was torn to shreds on January 3, when
the United States military intervened in Venezuela, kidnapping
President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, National Assembly deputy
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. The announced plans to install a US-run
government harks back to the colonial era. The damage to Latin
America’s dignity and sovereignty will not be easily
undone.__________
THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY
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_Filippo Barbera_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
The question is not how to return to the liberal democracy of the last
century, but whether it is still possible to reconstruct the necessary
preconditions that supported it. The problem to face is the deep
fracture that the processes of capitalist modernization have imposed
on the conditions enabling the functioning of our – always imperfect
and gap-riddled – democracy.__________
BEHIND IRAN PROTESTS
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Middle East Eye (London)
What began as a strike by merchants in Tehran has quickly escalated
into nationwide protests and deadly clashes with security forces
across Iran. Demonstrators have taken to the streets in more than 30
cities, turning an economic protest into broader political unrest.
Their standoff with the government created space for other Iranians to
join the streets and voice opposition to their rulers. __________
A FACTORY OCCUPATION FOR THE CLIMATE
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_Lukas Ferrari and Julia Kaiser _/ Socialist Project (Toronto)
After the 422 employees and approximately 80 agency workers of the
automotive supplier GKN Driveline in Tuscany, Italy, received an email
on 9 July 2021 informing them that they didn’t need to come to work
next Monday, they occupied their plant in Campi Bisenzio, on the
outskirts of Florence.__________
PALESTINE’S PATH FORWARD [[link removed]]
_Susan Abulhawa_ / Workers World (New York)
One of the most painful and recurring patterns in our struggle — a
strategic error that has, time and again, transformed moments of
undeniable power into periods of deepened dispossession. It is the
mistake of willfully allowing the transfer of our struggle from the
_arenas _of our power into the arenas where we are essentially
powerless.__________
AFRICA: HARD LOOKS BACK
• SOUTH AFRICA IN HISTORY’S SHADOW
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_Kevin Cox_ / New Left Review (London)
• MOZAMBIQUE AFTER LIBERATION
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_Fredson Guilengue_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
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LEBANON’S DOMESTIC WORKERS ORGANIZE
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_Kirsten O’Regan_ / Dissent (New York)
In a country of 6 million, there are now 250,000 migrant domestic
workers laboring under the oppressive kafala system. Can a new union
help transform conditions not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle
East?
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A FEW MAJOR SETBACKS IN 2025
• BANGLADESH: AFTERMATH OF AN UPRISING
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_Ambika Satkunanathan_ / The Wire (New Delhi)
• DEFEAT IN CHILE
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_Giorgio Jackson_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• MYANMAR JUNTA’S BATTLEFIELD COMEBACK
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_Sana Khan_ / Modern Diplomacy (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
• CPI(M) IN KERALA
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_M.P. Basheer_ / The Wire
• UKRAINE: FINE PRINT OF THE PEACE DEAL
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_Selbi Durdiyeva_ / The Conversation (Melbourne)
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CANADIAN LABOR’S YEAR
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_Gabriela Calugay-Casuga_ / rabble.ca (Toronto)
Despite a hard year to look back on, president of Unifor, Lana Payne,
and president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Sharon
DeSousa, both said it is also important to highlight the way Canadian
workers and their allies have stood up against injustice this year.
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TRUMP ON THE PROWL FOR EUROLEFT ANTIFA GROUPS
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_Ben Makuch_ / The Guardian (London)
The same anti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as
foreign terrorist organizations and accused of “conspiring to
undermine foundations of western civilization” barely qualify as
groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat
to Americans.
* Venezuela
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* democracy
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* Iran
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* Italy
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* Climate
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* strike
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* South Africa
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* Mozambique
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* Lebanon
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* domestic workers
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* Bangladesh
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* Chile
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* Myanmar
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* India
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* Kerala
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* Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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* Ukraine
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* Vladimir Putin
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* Ukraine peace deal
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* Canada
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* Labor
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* Lana Payne
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* Sharon DeSouza
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* Donald Trump
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* antifa
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