[This week: left economists cut through the baloney, rumblings of
general strike, and a guide to wrecking your party]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – AUGUST 10, 2022
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August 10, 2022
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_ This week: left economists cut through the baloney, rumblings of
general strike, and a guide to wrecking your party _
May 1, 2022 in Yekaterinburg. Dozens of protesters were detained
across Russia that day. The poster reads “Protection! Employment!
Salary!” Credit, Donat Sorokin/TASS
* Hands Off Walden Bello!
* Economic Perspectives
* Why the New Attack on Gaza
* Latin America: More on the New Pink Tide
* Anti-Hijab Protests in Iran
* Ethiopia
* Labor in Russia and Ukraine
* Tanzania: Maasai Women Resist
* UK General Strike?
* NZ: You Too Can Wreck a Party
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HANDS OFF WALDEN BELLO!
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Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
On Monday, August 8, social activist, environmentalist and former
vice-presidential candidate Walden Bello was arrested by the Quezon
City police in the Philippines for ‘cyber libel’. Bello was
temporarily released on bail on Tuesday August 9. Bello’s arrest
follows the formation of the new government in May 2022 headed by
Bongbong Marcos, son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
* THE LEFT, INFLATION AND MONETARY POLICY
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_Andrew Jackson_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
* GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Democracy Now! (New York)
* UNEMPLOYMENT IS A LAGGING INDICATOR
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_Michael Roberts_ / The Next Recession (London)
* HUMAN CAPITAL?
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_David Ridley_ / Red Pepper (London)
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Why the New Attack on Gaza
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_Ibrahim Fraihat and Reema Abu Ramadan_ / Middle East Eye (London)
Instead of a large-scale invasion of Jenin refugee camp, it seems
Israel decided to attack Gaza where Palestinian resistance factions
maintain a much stronger presence.
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Latin America: More on the New Pink Tide
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_John Feffer_ / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)
Gustavo Petro, Francia Márquez and Gabriel Boric must navigate their
way through the various layers of the Latin American left. Transformed
by social movements, the post-Chavez left can show the world how
progressives can wield power justly and judiciously in an age of
climate change and political polarization.
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ANTI-HIJAB PROTESTS IN IRAN
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_Somayeh Malekian_ / ABC News (New York)
Iran’s hijab laws are enforced by the morality police, which often
patrols busy areas of the cities and arrests women on the streets for
not being compliant with the traditional Islamic dress code. Last
month’s campaign activity has been treated more strictly by the
morality police and those arrested for their activism could face more
severe sentencing.
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ETHIOPIAN UNIONS STILL KICKING
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_Samuel Andreas Admasie_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
Trade union movements in several African countries are on a course
which is profoundly different from that of unions in industrial
economies. That is the case in Ethiopia, where the membership, impact,
clout and prestige of the trade union movement has grown rapidly in
the last decade.
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LABOR IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
* RUSSIAN WORKERS FIGHT
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_Azamat Ismailov_ / openDemocracy (London)
* UKRAINE IMPOSES ANTI-LABOR LAWS
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_Federico Fuentes_ / Green Left (Sydney)
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TANZANIA: MAASAI WOMEN RESIST
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_Hibist Kassa_ / This is Africa (Cape Town)
By being rooted in collective action, Maasai women can increase their
access to knowledge, social relations, collective identity, and
authority by asserting their rights to access land, which enables
greater political control. To resist land grabbing, women must assert
their rights to contest control and ownership over land and natural
resources.
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UK GENERAL STRIKE?
* ON THE AGENDA
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_Dominic Glover_ / Courthouse News Service (Pasadena CA)
* RAIL WORKERS: “WE’RE IN”
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_Simon Childs_ / Novara Media (London)
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NZ: YOU TOO CAN WRECK A PARTY
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_Dave Armstrong_ / Stuff (Wellington)
Are you a member of a right-wing political party aching for power? Or
perhaps you are a CIA operative travelling the globe destabilising
left-wing movements. Or maybe you are simply very wealthy and want to
keep those lefties away from your tax-free property investments.
Whatever your brand of right-wing activism, this self-help guide to
destroying left-wing parties is for you.
* the Left
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* political economy
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* inflation
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* monetary policy
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* debt crisis
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* unemployment
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* recession
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* Neoliberalism
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* Latin America
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* New Pink Tide
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* Gabriel Boric
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* Francia Marquez
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* Gustavo Petro
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* Women
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* Iran
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* Ethiopia
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* unions
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* Russia
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* Ukraine
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* Tanzania
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* Maasai
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* United Kingdom
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* general strike
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* Mick Lynch
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* RMT
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* New Zealand
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* political parties
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* Phillipines
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* Walden Bello
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* cyber libel
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* Palestine
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* Israel
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* Gaza
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