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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — JANUARY 14, 2026
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January 14, 2026
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* Iran on the Edge
* Venezuela: The Hour of Perplexity
* The End of Rules-Based Authority
* Left Alliances Oppose US Invasion
* Kurds Resist Syria
* Critique of _La France Insoumise_
* Colombian Candidate Speaks
* Asia Pacific Left Meeting
* Greenland on the Hook
* UK’s Antifascist Beacon Gerry Gable 1937-2026
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IRAN ON THE EDGE
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_Helyeh Doutaghi _/ Progressive International
The Association of Trade Unions of Bushehr Refinery Workers (ATUBRW)
is the institutional backbone of working-class sovereignty in Iran.
The union articulates a politics in which workers’ demands are
inseparable from resisting imperial domination and advancing
collective emancipation.
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VENEZUELA: THE HOUR OF PERPLEXITY
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_Omar Vázquez Heredia_ / Venezuela Voices
In the short term, Venezuela’s future will depend on Trump’s armed
threats and the ability of the acting president to obtain and maintain
the support of the military and police apparatus. We are still far
from the moment when the Venezuelan people, in the exercise of their
sovereignty, can freely decide their future in national elections in
which all political currents can participate on equal terms.
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THE END OF RULES-BASED AUTHORITY
• NEW WORLD DISORDER
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_Oliver Pieper_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
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LEFT ALLIANCES OPPOSE US INVASION
• PARTY OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT
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• LA VIA CAMPESINA
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• THE LEFT IN THE EP
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• COMMUNIST PARTIES JOINT STATEMENT / Solidnet
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• PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE
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• FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
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• PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL
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KURDS RESIST SYRIA
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Rudaw (Erbil, Kurdistan Region)
The administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday condemned the
characterization of the seizure of Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority
neighborhoods by Damascus and its affiliated forces as a
“victory.” The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and
East Syria (DAANES) described an “uneven battle” that involved
“the use of all kinds of heavy weaponry against simple individual
arms.”
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CRITIQUE OF _LA FRANCE INSOUMISE_
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_Adam Novak_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
The exchange between philosopher Frédéric Lordon and _La France
Insoumise_ raises questions central to ecosocialist strategy
internationally: whether electoral left formations can genuinely
challenge capitalism, and what distinguishes rhetorical anticapitalism
from the real thing.
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COLOMBIAN CANDIDATE SPEAKS
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_Iván Cepeda and Pablo Castaño_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Iván Cepeda is a senator for the _Pacto Histórico_, the left-wing
alliance that backed Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s election,
and its candidate to succeed him as president in the general elections
of May and June 2026. A human rights defender, Cepeda was involved in
the judicial process that ended in the initial conviction of former
rightwing president Álvaro Uribe.
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ASIA PACIFIC LEFT MEETING
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_Markela Panegyres_ / Green Left (Sydney)
The Socialism 2025 Conference, held in Malaysia’s capital Kuala
Lumpur, on November 15–16, brought together about 200 socialists and
activists from across the Asia-Pacific. The _Parti Sosialis Malaysia_
(Malaysian Socialist Party, PSM) has hosted the event annually since
2005, and it has become one of the largest gatherings of socialists
and progressives in the region.
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GREENLAND ON THE HOOK
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_Trine Pertou Mach and Pelle Dragsted_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
(Berlin)
Trump displays a remarkable ignorance (or simple disregard of facts)
when he talks about Greenland, one example is claiming that the
majority of Greenlanders want to become US citizens. They don’t,
especially seeing how their fellow Inuit are treated in Alaska — and
not even if Trump offers to buy them off.
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UK’S ANTIFASCIST BEACON GERRY GABLE 1937-2026
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_Andy Bell_ / Searchlight (Essex)
The death of _Searchlight_’s founder Gerry Gable at the age of 88
marks the passing of a man without whom modern British anti-fascism
would scarcely be recognisable. For more than sixty years, he stood at
the centre of the struggle against fascism and the extreme right, as a
relentless organiser, investigator and strategist.
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* La France Insoumise
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* Searchlight
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