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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - AUGUST 12, 2020  
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August 12, 2020
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“Beirut: Capital of the Revolution”, PHOTO/ AFP

 

* The China Debate Continues
* Lebanon Explodes
* Bolivia: Will the Coup Regime Prevail?
* Save India Day
* Women’s Movements and South African Democracy
* Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan Speaks
* Guatemala: Xinka Take On Covid-19
* Poland: LGBTQ Resistance
* Legacies

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The China Debate Continues

THE MANUFACTURED THREAT
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_Atul Bhardwaj_ / Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai)

HONG KONG, CHINA, AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
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W. and Promise Li_ / Tempest

AGAINST DENOUNCING ‘BOTH SIDES’
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/ Qiao Collective

STAND WITH THE UIGHURS
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_Ben Towse_ / Novara Media (London)

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Lebanon Explodes

FROM SHOCK TO RAGE
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Chehayeb_ / Middle East Eye (London)

“WE NEED NEW BLOOD
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/ Al Jazeera (Doha)

CITIZENS IN A STATE
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Naoufal_ / An-Nahar (Beirut)

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Bolivia: Will the Coup Regime Prevail?

NATIONAL STRIKE AND ROADBLOCKS
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Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

THE ONGOING COUP
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_Anton Flaig and Denis Rogatyuk_ / Jacobin (New York)

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Save India Day
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_Ronak Chhabra_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)

Ten million turned out across the country against the Modi
government’s “anti-people” policies being pushed under the
pretext of pandemic. 

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Women
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MOVEMENTS AND SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRACY
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_Caitlin Troup_ / IOL (Cape Town)

Short-term alliances that intensely mobilise around specific issues or
pieces of legislation engage the state, and then disappear after
reaching their goals.

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A Solution for Syria, Turkey, and the Kurds
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_Abdullah Öcalan_ / Jacobin

Kurdish leader Öcalan, a prisoner in Turkey for 20+ years, calls
for a “democratic nation project” able to unite citizens of
different ethnic backgrounds and cultural traditions.

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Guatemala: Xinka Take On Covid-19
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_Valerie Croft_ / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)

Indigenous peoples, such as the Xinka in Guatemala, are finding ways
to organize and care for each other, while firmly rooting their
response in ancestral practices that have sustained them throughout
time.

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Poland: LGBTQ Resistance
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_Marianna Szczygielska_ / LeftEast (Bucharest)

In Warsaw, the queer collective “Stop Bzdurom” (Stop the
Bullshit) uses direct action to counter the persistent disinformation
campaign targeting the LGBTQ community, sexual education, and
reproductive justice. 

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Legacies

HAWA ABDI, SOMALIA
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DOM PEDRO CASALDALIGA, BRAZIL
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JACQUES COURSIL, BELGIUM
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Miriam Esther Jiménez Román, Puerto Rico
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