[Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes,
and news of new year struggles in four continents]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - FOCUS ON AFRICA  
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January 20, 2021
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_ Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes, and
news of new year struggles in four continents _

Demonstrators in Sudan. Credit, Ashraf Shazly/Agence France-Presse
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* Lumumba +60
* Tunisia Protests
* Uganda Election
* Sudan Unrest
* Angola’s Liberator Veterans
* South Africa: Reclaiming the City
* India’s Protesting Farmers
* Support Palestinian Strikers
* West Papua Freedom Fight
* French Protests Continue: Pictures
* Brazil’s Martyrs Remembered

Lumumba +60
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_Eric Toussaint_ / Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt
(Liège)

On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, was
tortured and then executed, along with several of his comrades, by
Congolese leaders complicit with Western powers, as well as by Belgian
police and soldiers. He was only 35 years old.

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TUNISIA PROTESTS
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Middle East Eye

Protesters rallied in Tunisia’s capital and other cities on Tuesday
against unemployment and corruption, and revived the chant “the
people want the fall of the regime” that rang out a decade ago and
led to the ouster of longtime leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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UGANDA ELECTION

OPPOSITION GROWS
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Muhumuza_ / AP (New York)

BOBI WINE, THE GHETTO PRESIDENT
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Shanmugathas_ / Review of African Political Economy (London)

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SUDAN UNREST

UNIONS LAUNCH ANTI-GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN
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Kulkarni_  [[link removed]]/ Peoples
Dispatch (New Delhi)

WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST WAAD BAHJAT FACES TRIAL
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Radio Dabanga (Khartoum)

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ANGOLA’S LIBERATOR VETERANS
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_Selina Makana_ / Africa is a Country (New York)

Many ex-combatants see a vast chasm between MPLA’s wartime rhetoric
and postwar reality. Far from glorifying their patriotism, testimonies
reveal veterans’ refusal to identify with egregiously kleptocratic
party elites and the current state of Angolan politics. 

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SOUTH AFRICA: RECLAIMING THE CITY
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_Steven Robins_ / Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)

The occupation and repurposing of Cape Town’s vacant Woodstock
Hospital into Cissie Gool House is an exercise in patient and
long-term ‘slow activism’.

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INDIA’S FARMERS FIGHT ON

THEY SHALL NOT BE MOVED
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VIDEO: WOMEN FARMERS
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Peoples Dispatch

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WEST PAPUA FREEDOM FIGHT
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_Jason MacLeod_ / Jacobin (New York)

The struggle is being waged over three domains: inside the occupied
territory of West Papua; inside the territory of the occupier,
Indonesia; and outside the country, led by Papuans in exile, and
backed by a growing network of solidarity groups.

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SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STRIKERS
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New Unions (West Bank)

Palestinian workers at the Israeli settlement factory of Yamit Sinoun
started an open strike demanding the company to respect their
rights. The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions calls on unions
and human rights groups to support the strike.

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FRENCH PROTESTS CONTINUE: PICTURES
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Al Jazeera (Doha)

Tens of thousands of protesters marched across France to denounce a
security bill that would restrict the filming of police and posting of
images on social media, something critics say would impact the ability
to document cases of police brutality.

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BRAZIL’S MARTYRS REMEMBERED

MARIELLE FRANCO
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Carvalho and Lu Sudré_ / Brasil de Fato (São Paulo)

CHICO MENDES
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Gimenes and Lucas Weber_ / Brasil de Fato

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