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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - FEBRUARY 24, 2021  
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February 24, 2021
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_ Street rage and strikes in South Africa, Myanmar, Thailand, and
more news from four continents _

South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) gets the word out,
via Twitter

 

* Red Books Day 2021
* South Africa
* Chile
* Honduras
* Myanmar
* Thailand
* South Korea
* India
* Belarus
* Legacies

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Red Books Day 2021
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Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

Thousands of people across the globe took part in celebrations of the
second annual ‘Red Books Day,’ commemorating the publication
of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ on February 21, 1848. 

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SOUTH AFRICA: NEWS BRIEFS ON STRIKE AND PROTESTS

BUSINESSTECH
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NEWS24
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(Cape Town)

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CHILE’S NEW ELECTORAL ALLIANCE

_Pierre Cappanera_ / Les 2 Rives (Paris)

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The social explosion [in the recent constitutional crisis] made it
clear that there was not one opposition but two. There are the
Concertation parties (from the Christian Democracy to the Socialist
Party) which have come to terms with the ultra-neoliberal system and
the Pinochet Constitution. And there is the left around the Communist
Party and the Frente Amplio, which really wants to tackle the causes
of inequality and poverty.

In October, negotiations took place between the entire opposition for
the organization of primaries for local elections. The aim of the
Concertation was to attract the Frente Amplio and to isolate the
Communist Party of Chile. The maneuver failed. The majority of Frente
parties and activists refused to unite with the ex-Concertation
without the Communist Party.

On November 27 a first agreement was signed between the Communist
Party and the Frente Amplio for the local elections. Another will be
made public in the coming days: the two parties will present unitary
lists for the Constituent. This rapprochement is strategic.

This rapprochement of the Frente Amplio and the Communist Party caused
the right of the Frente to leave the ship. Several deputies and one of
the parties making up the Frente Amplio split.

Why has the Christian Democracy been so ardent in trying to isolate
the Communist Party today and why does the Socialist Party remain
silent? The answer has a name: Daniel Jadue, the Communist
presidential candidate. Christian Democracy does not want presidential
primaries with the Communist Party because all the polls show Daniel
Jadue would win.

Christian Democracy wants ex-Concertation primaries only. The
Socialist Party is divided between a majority attached to the liberal
system and a strong minority which is ready to support Jadue if not in
the first round, in the second without hesitation. The Socialist Party
risks experiencing strong internal turbulence as we get closer to the
presidential election and we will have to choose between
ultra-neoliberalism and anti-neoliberalism.

The right of Frente Amplio, when leaving Frente at the beginning of
December, made it clear: they do not want to support Jadue, unlike the
left majority of Frente Amplio. In an internal vote last Sunday,
two-thirds of Frente Amplio activists voted for the alliance with the
Communist Party, less than 30% with the ex-Concertation.

Chile, 50 years after Allende’s victory in the 1970 presidential
election, is rediscovering its traditional division into three blocks:
the right, the center-left and the left. The only fundamentally
different element in this recomposition is that before 1970 the PS was
part of the left and not of the center left as it is today.

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HONDURAS: CONTINUING THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS
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_Natalie Alcoba_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

The new recruits to the women’s rights group, Somos Muchas, are
mostly young women  who have been moved into action by recent events.
It is a sign that change is still possible in a country with some of
the most severe restrictions on abortion in the world.

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MYANMAR: MILLIONS STRIKE AGAINST COUP
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_Kyaw Phya Tha_ / The Irrawaddy (Bangkok)

Myanmar woke up on Monday to a nation in which many businesses, from
markets to restaurants to roadside vendors, were shut down—and would
remain so for the whole day—as people went out to join the strike.

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RENEWED PROTEST IN THAILAND
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South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

Thailand’s pro-democracy protesters took to the streets anew on
Tuesday, massing around police headquarters in Bangkok after seizing
on revelations of a pay-to-play promotion culture within the Thai
police force.

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SOUTH KOREA: ONE WORKER’S LONG MARCH
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_Nikita Kaufmann_ / Verso Books (London)

Kim Jin-suk, a former welder at Busan’s Hanjin Shipyard who is in
the midst of battling breast cancer, is walking more than 400
kilometers to Seoul in order to force reparations for her unjust
firing decades ago.

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VIDEO: WOMEN LEAD INDIA FARMERS
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_Mohd Irshad Alam_ / The Quint (Mumbai)

As many thousands of farmers continue their protest against new
farm legislations from the Modi government, a remarkable number of
women are not only braving the rough weather by participating in these
demonstrations but are also leading from the front.

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BELARUS: ANATOMY OF A FAILED UPRISING
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_Alexey Sakhnin and Katya Kazbek_ / Jacobin (New York)

The collapse of Lukashenko’s statist model of capitalism has fed
mass discontent with his rule — but the liberal opposition's own
promises of change also drew skepticism among working-class
Belarusians.

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LEGACIES

SISTER DIANNA ORTIZ
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Stockman_ / Global Sisters Report (Kansas City MO)

RAYMOND LÉVESQUE, QUEBEC
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Gilbert_ / Montreal Gazette

REBECCA KOTANE, SOUTH AFRICA
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/ TimesLIVE (Johannesburg)

ERNIE TATE, UK
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Clark and Pam Frache_ / Spring

JOSÉ CARLOS RUY, BRAZIL
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_Urariano Mota_ / People’s World (New York)

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