[Worldwide Uprising! Election News from Bolivia, Canada and
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - 1968 IN 2019  
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November 6, 2019
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_ Worldwide Uprising! Election News from Bolivia, Canada and Germany!
Reports from Hong Kong, Chile, Iraq, Kurdistan! And a Long Distance
Runner Makes Her Stand for Historical Truth _

The head of Dagoberto Godoy hangs from a statue of the indigenous
Mapuche chieftain Caupolicán after protesters decapitated a statue of
the Chilean air force pilot in Temuco, Photograph: Paulo
Quintana/Araucania Online

 

* 1968 in 2019
* Díaz-Canel at Havana Anti-Imperialist Conference
* Hong Kong: View from the Streets
* More Election Summaries: Bolivia, Canada, Germany
* Chile: Social Movement and Party
* Luciana Castellina on the EP’s Rewriting of WWII History
* Iraq IS a Hard Place
* Video: Kurdish Women's Defense Units Spokeswoman

 

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1968 in 2019
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_Jack Shenker_ / The Guardian (London)

We are witnessing the biggest surge in global protest activity since
the early 2010s, when a “movement of the squares” saw mass rallies
in capital cities across the Arab world, followed by Occupy
demonstrations in the global north. 

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Díaz-Canel at Havana Anti-Imperialist Conference
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_Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez_ / Granma (Havana)

Speech by the Cuban President at the closing of the Anti-Imperialist
Solidarity Conference, For Democracy and Against Neoliberalism, at
Havana’s Convention Center, November 3, 2019.

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Hong Kong: View from the Streets
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_James Pomfret and Jessie Pang_ / Reuters (London)

The concrete towers of Wong Tai Sin are home to tens of thousands of
working-class families whose struggles are woven into the fabric and
lore of Hong Kong’s global rise.

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More Election Summaries

BOLIVIA
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PC_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

CANADA
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Levy_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office

GERMANY
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Grossman_ / MR Online (New York)

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Chile: Social Movement and Party

ORIGINS OF REVOLT
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Vergara-Perucich and Camillo Boano_ / Il Manifesto Global (Rome)

FRENTE AMPLIO
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Orellana_ / Jacobin (New York)

 

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Euro Parliament’s Rewriting of WWII History
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_Luciana Castellina_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)

The "Remembrance" resolution (see THE END OF ANTI-FASCISM
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Jacobin) and the non-response of left parties infuriates a leading
left activist.

 

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Iraq IS a Hard Place
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_Harith Hasan_ / Middle East Eye (London)

The popular movement reflects a growing confrontation between the old
language of 'sects' and a new language of citizenship and social
justice.

 

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Video: Kurdish YPJ Calls for Women’s Unity and Women’s Revolution
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_Nesrin Abdullah_ / ANF News

The Women's Defense Units (YPJ) are defending the women and people in
North and East Syria, protecting their self-governance from the
occupying Turkish attacks.

 

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