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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - NOVEMBER 10, 2021
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November 10, 2021
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_ Protesters confront COP26, Elections in Nicaragua and Venezuela,
Pink tide in... Greenland _
Demonstrators join the Fridays for Future march in Glasgow, Nov. 5.
Credit, Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
* COP26 Protests
* Nigeria: What #EndSARS Accomplished (and Didn’t)
* Ireland: Sinn Fein Calls for the End of Partition
* A Rock, Nicaragua, and a Hard Place
* Thai Resisters
* Socialists Win in Greenland
* Sudan Resistance Solidifies
* Venezuela’s Upcoming Election
* Sheila Rowbotham’s Contributions
* From Neoliberalism to Neo-Statism?
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COP26 PROTESTS
FIVE TAKEAWAYS
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Euronews (Lyon)
CITIES BESIEGED [[link removed]] BBC
News (London)
INDIGENOUS, COLONIALISM, AND CLIMATE
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_Deniss Martinez and Ans Irfan_ / Environmental Health News
(Bozeman MT)
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NIGERIA: WHAT #ENDSARS ACCOMPLISHED (AND DIDN’T)
WOMEN WAIT FOR JUSTICE
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_Makua Adimora_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
ACTIVISTS REFLECT
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_Akindare Okunola_ / Global Citizen (New York)
FROM THE STREETS TO THE POLLS
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_Titilope Anifowoshe_ / The Cable (Lagos)
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IRELAND:
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FÉIN CALLS FOR THE END OF PARTITION
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_Fiona Audley_ / Irish Post (London)
Mary Lou McDonald called on governments on both sides of the Irish
Sea to “plan and prepare” for a united Ireland. Speaking at Sinn
Féin’s Ard Fheis congress, the party leader underscored her
challenge: “Every big step change in Irish life has been made by
ordinary people seizing the day”.
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A ROCK, NICARAGUA, AND A HARD PLACE
ORTEGA’S WIN
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_William I. Robinson_ / NACLA Report (New York)
IMPRISONED OPPOSITION INCLUDES REVOLUTIONARIES
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_Dánae Vílchez_ / openDemocracy (London)
FRESH SANCTIONS IMPOSED BY DC
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Spetalnick and Trevor Hunnicutt_ / Reuters (London)
FSLN HAS POPULAR SUPPORT
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_John Perry, Patricia Ruiz, Winnie Narvaez, and Yorlis Luna_ /
NACLA Report
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THAI RESISTERS [[link removed]]
Prachatai (Bangkok)
Protesters express growing frustration with a law that leaves them
unable to talk about the impact of monarchy-related issues on their
lives. In the recent past, people have been charged for questioning
the Kingdom’s vaccination rollout, mocking the royal dog, and even
reciting part of a poem.
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SOCIALISTS WIN IN GREENLAND
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_Christian Juhl_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Brussels)
Greenland’s socialist party, Inuit Ataqatigiit (Community of the
People) won a landslide victory, taking no less than 37 percent of
the vote and 12 of the 31 seats in the Greenlandic parliament. The
party’s 34-year-old chairperson Múte B. Egede is now the
youngest-ever head of Greenland’s government.
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SUDAN RESISTANCE SOLIDIFIES
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CONTINUES
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_Mossaad Mohamed Ali_ / African Centre for Justice and Peace
Studies (New York)
RESISTANCE COMMITTEES
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_Raga Makawi _/ MENA Solidarity Network (London)
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VENEZUELA’S UPCOMING ELECTION
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_Cira Pascual Marquina and Clodovaldo Hernández_ / Venezuelanalysis
(Caracas)
Analyst Clodovaldo Hernández discusses the fate of political
gridlock in Venezuela_,_ and talks about self-proclaimed “Interim
President” Juan Guaidó’s demise as a political actor.
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SHEILA ROWBOTHAM’S CONTRIBUTIONS
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_Rachel Collett_ / Tribune (London)
In her new memoir, Sheila Rowbotham writes about the radical
aspirations of feminism and socialism in the 1970s – and how many of
the decade’s struggles remain to be won today.
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ROUNDTABLE: FROM NEOLIBERALISM TO NEO-STATISM?
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Verso (New York)
Paolo Gerbaudo’s new book, _The Great Recoil: Politics after
Populism and Pandemic
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that we are entering a new era of neo-statist intervention and offers
a blueprint for how the Left should respond to this moment. Here are
some responses.
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