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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - NOVEMBER 17, 2021  
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November 17, 2021
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_ Why COP 26 was an “utter betrayal”, and why Gramsci is good for
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* Women Arm Against Myanmar Military Rule
* More on COP26
* Cuba: Speech Rights and Existential Rights
* Liberian Health Workers Organize Amidst the Pandemic
* Chilean Communists Pledge Left Unity in Election
* China’s Xi Makes His Bid to Stand with Mao and Deng
* Lessons from Québec Elections
* Poland: Woman’s Death Triggers Abortion Protests
* Far Left Front Gains National Seats in Argentina
* How Gramsci Went Global

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Women Arm Against Myanmar Military Rule
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_Nu Nu Lusan and Emily Fishbein_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

As armed resistance to a military coup intensifies, women fight for
gender equity along with an end to dictatorship.

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MORE ON COP26

“UTTER BETRAYAL”
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_Bethany Rielly_ / Morning Star (London)

INDIGENOUS REJECT “DEATH SENTENCE”
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 _Nina Lakhani_ / The Guardian (London)

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS UNHEARD
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 _Emilio Godoy_ / Inter Press Service (New York)

NEEDED: A PEOPLE-CENTERED COP26
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 _Aderonke Ige_ / African Arguments (London)

WALKOUT AND PEOPLE’S SUMMIT
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 _Amy Goodman_ / Democracy Now! (New York)

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CUBA: SPEECH RIGHTS AND EXISTENTIAL RIGHTS

THE NATIONAL PROTEST THAT WASN’T
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Nelson Acosta_ / Reuters (London)

AUTUMN OF DISCONTENT AS DC AMPS UP THE PRESSURE
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 _Roberto Livi_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

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 _Rafael Hernández_ / OnCuba News (Miami)

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LIBERIAN HEALTH WORKERS ORGANIZE AMIDST THE PANDEMIC
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_Dounard Bondo_ / Roar (Amsterdam)

Liberia’s health workers are waging a dual struggle: battling the
COVID-19 pandemic, while fighting for their rights and salaries.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic the National Health Workers Union of
Liberia had to implement a stay-at-home action for better pay and
better working conditions for the benefit of both patients and
caregivers.

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CHILEAN
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COMMUNISTS PLEDGE LEFT UNITY IN ELECTION
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_Daniel Jadue_ / Jacobin (New York)

Despite major differences between the Chilean Communist Party and the
progressive Broad Front, a significant part of the Communist Party is
now pledging their support for Boric’s campaign in the upcoming
November 21 general election — which, according to recent polls, is
building up to be a race between the far right and the Left.

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CHINA’S XI MAKES HIS BID TO STAND WITH MAO AND DENG
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_Helen Roxburgh and Laurie Chen_ / Hong Kong Free Press

Some 350 members of the powerful Central Committee passed a resolution
on “Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s
Centennial Struggle” — only the third historical sum-up of its
kind in its 100-year history. The previous two were issued under
former leaders Mao Zedong, in 1945, and Deng Xiaoping, in 1981.

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LESSONS FROM 
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Election
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_Karl Nerenberg_ / rabble.ca (Toronto)

If Valérie Plante and Projet Montréal can succeed in pursuing a
different sort of governance strategy, one based on the long-term
well-being of the entire city, they could serve as an inspiration and
model for the rest of us.

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POLISH WOMEN CONFRONT ABORTION LAW

THOUSANDS IN THE STREETS
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 _Michał Wojtczuk and Jakub Kibitlewski_ / Wyzorcza.pl (Warsaw)

“IT’S TURNING ANTI-GOVERNMENT”
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Oppenheim_ / The Independent (London)

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Far Left Front Gains National Seats in Argentina

_Alfonso de Villalobos_ / Tiempo (Buenos Aries)

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The four parties that make up the Frente de Izquierda y de los
Trabajadores-Unidad (FIT-U) celebrated what they called the “best
election in the history of the left in Argentina.” The result was
already shaping up after the primaries in which they obtained 6% of
votes in Autonomous Buenos Aires city and about 5% in Buenos Aires
Province. They needed to increase that vote by about a point and a
half in those districts to achieve the goal of securing three seats in
the lower house of the national congress. They did better than that.

With 7.76% of the votes in the city, for the first time, FIT-U entered
Congress from that district with the candidacy of Myriam Bregman of
the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) who, based on the rotating
arrangement that has governed the coalition since its founding, will
be replaced by Vanina Biasi of the Partido Obrero (PO). With a
slightly higher vote they also managed to enter two legislators from
the City of Buenos Aires, Gabriel Solano of the PO and Alejandrina
Barry of the PTS.

In the Province of Buenos Aires, with 6.75% of the votes, Nicolás del
Caño del PTS and Romina del Plá del PO renewed their seats in
Congress for the second time. In addition to winning two provincial
deputy races for the second electoral section, they counted vote by
vote to enter councilors in the most impoverished districts of the
suburbs such as La Matanza where they reached 9.67% of the votes,
Merlo (10.51%), Moreno (9.31%), Jose C. Paz (9.29%) and Coronel
Pringles with a shocking 19.7%. If confirmed, for the FIT-U it is a
qualitative step forward in its strategic fight to conquer the vote of
the rank and file of Buenos Aires Peronism.

But the strawberry for dessert was the historic win that the FIT-U
made in Jujuy [a northwest province]. There, according to provisional
scrutiny, Alejandro Vilca entered as a national deputy for one of the
three seats that were disputed in the province governed by Gerardo
Morales. Vilca is a municipal garbage collector [....] 

The FIT-U consolidated itself as the third national force with a
presence in 24 provinces, and achieved results close to 8% overall,
with 8.6% in Chubut, 8.2% in Neuquén, and 7.1% in Santa Cruz. [...]

In a press conference, Myriam Bregman [...] pointed out that “the
national government is paying the consequences of the [fiscal]
adjustment it carried out, and was confronted by the FIT-U, with an
alternative program to that of the capitalist forces. The people know
that this left will never vote for an anti-popular measure. [...In]
this City that they say is right-wing, [...] for the first time we are
conquering an a official seat [...]. We did it without hiding our
ideas before public opinion but by supporting each of the struggles of
the workers of this city. [...] Our real fight is for socialism,
that's why we were able to sustain a coalition for ten years
independent of the bosses’ parties. It’s not magic, it’s
principles and a strong commitment to struggle.”

Gabriel Solano, for his part, pointed out that [...] “Where Peronism
felt impregnable, now the left, with the flags of socialism, are here
to defend the workers. It is not only a turn of an electorate sector
to repudiate something, it is deeper.” [...]

Romina del Plá insisted that “the election leaves us with a mandate
to strengthen organization in every corner of the country [...]
starting with confronting and rejecting the agreement with the IMF and
the payment of that usurious, fraudulent and illegitimate debt.”

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HOW GRAMSCI WENT GLOBAL
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_Marzia Maccaferri_ / Tribune (London)

His sophisticated analysis shows social power as a more complex matrix
than a simple matter of domination and subordination. He showed how
institutions as well as cultural production play a subtle role.
Gramsci is read across the world, from India to Argentina, Spain, and
the African continent, and from the US to Britain.

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