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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 3, 2022
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_ Jayati Ghosh and João Pedro Stedile on the fierce urgency of now _
A demonstrator in Buenos Aires calls out the government for inflation
and austerity. Credit, AFP/JUAN MABROMATA
* Achieving Earth for All
* Fight or Starve
* Post-Roe Strategy
* Time is Short
* What Happened to Hong Kong Protests
* War Watch
* Zero Hour in Sri Lanka
* Albania’s Hard Road
* The Enemy is Militarism
* France: A Domestic Worker Joins the National Assembly
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ACHIEVING EARTH FOR ALL
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Project Syndicate (Kings Park NY)
Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for
everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with
wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism
can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that governments ultimately
have to respond to popular pressure – or be replaced by it.
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FIGHT OR STARVE
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Firstpost (Mumbai)
Sri Lanka is not alone. Rising inflation has pushed a lot of other
nations to the brink of an economic collapse. Pakistan and Nepal find
themselves with low forex; the soaring cost of living has led to
protests in Argentina, Ghana, Kenya.
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POST-ROE STRATEGY
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_Yifat Susskind_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
As we build a long-term strategy for reproductive justice, we must
look towards feminist allies around the world who are fighting for
reproductive justice despite legal and political obstacles. From
movements to decriminalize abortion in Colombia and Mexico, to
frontline workers providing abortion care despite criminalization:
their work illuminates a path.
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TIME IS SHORT
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_João Pedro Stedile_ / Monthly Review (New York)
We must implement methods of popular democracy and broad popular
participation in each country to ensure that national states work in
favor of the people, not capital. We urgently need to develop new
international instruments of governance, not just for governments, but
also including representatives of political and popular organizations
in every region.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO HONG KONG PROTESTS
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_Lea Mok_ / Hong Kong Free Press
Three years on from mass protests and unrest which rocked the city for
months, Hong Kong’s government insists it has restored stability and
predicts a bright future for its people. But the after-effects of the
pro-democracy unrest, including a Beijing-imposed national security
law and sweeping electoral changes, have permanently reshaped the
city.
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WAR WATCH
* DEBATING THE WAR
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Phipps_ / Labour Hub (London)
* THE REAL MILITARY BALANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NATO
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_Anatol Lieven_ / Responsible Statecraft (Washington DC)
* RUSSIAN PARTISANS VS. THE WAR MACHINE
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Insider (Riga)
* UKRAINIAN WORKERS’ WAR ON TWO FRONTS
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_Dick Nichols_ / Green Left (Sydney)
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ZERO HOUR IN SRI LANKA
* EMERGENCY REGULATIONS IMPOSED
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_Marianne David interviews Shamala Kumar_ / The Morning (Colombo)
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POLITICAL PHASES AND FACES OF THE ‘ARAGALAYA’
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_Sumudu Chamara_ / The Morning
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THE CRISIS AND MINORITIES
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_Niro Kandasamy_ / The Conversation (Melbourne)
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ALBANIA’S HARD ROAD
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_Daniel Finn interviews Lea Ypi _/ Jacobin (New York)
From its late break with the Ottoman Empire to the Cold War rule of
Enver Hoxha, Albania has followed an unusual path through modern
history. But the country’s experience of communism and postcommunism
is full of valuable lessons for the politics of today.
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THE ENEMY IS MILITARISM [[link removed]]
_Niamh Ní Bhriain_ / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)
Although militarism enables and prolongs war, since the invasion of
Ukraine, Western governments have ratcheted up defence spending,
strengthened military alliances, and intensified divisive rhetoric.
How did we get here and where will this unbridled militarism lead us?
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FRANCE: A DOMESTIC WORKER JOINS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
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Africanews (Pointe-Noire, Congo)
Rachel Keke led and won a 22-month battle for better pay and
conditions at the hotel in Paris where she worked. The campaign
secured her the respect of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical supporters.
In her constituency on the outskirts of Paris, she defeated President
Emmanuel Macron’s former sports minister Roxana Maracineanu by 177
votes.
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* Popular Resistance
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* abortion rights
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* popular democracy
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* Hong Kong
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* Russia-Ukraine war
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* Russia
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* Ukraine
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* workers rights
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* Stop the War Coalition
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* NATO
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* Sri Lanka
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* Aragalaya
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* ethnic minority groups
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* Albania
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* Militarism
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* peace movement
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* France
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* Rachel Keke
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* Climate
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