[Cost-of-living protests sweep the planet!]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
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September 14, 2022
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_ Cost-of-living protests sweep the planet! _
Workers shout slogans during a rally against fuel price hikes outside
the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Credit,
AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana
* Decolonization Needed for Eco-Justice in Africa
* Cost-of-Living Protests Sweep the Planet
* Afghan Girls Stand Against School Closure
* How British Workers Won a 44% Raise
* Mass Outrage in Haiti
* Kohei Saito’s _Capital in the Anthropocene_
* More on Chile
* LGBTQ in Eastern Europe
* Running as Sewer Socialists in Vancouver
* Protests Push Indonesian Authorities
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DECOLONIZATION NEEDED FOR ECO-JUSTICE IN AFRICA
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_Mbong Akiy Fokwa Tsafack_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
From Somalia to Nigeria, from South Africa to Algeria,
households across Africa are facing a worsening climate crisis, with
floods, extreme heat waves, wildfires, droughts and rising food
prices. Yet our leaders are making a case for more oil and gas
exploration at the upcoming climate conference in Egypt, an absurd
choice that is bound to turn a bad situation even worse.
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COST-OF-LIVING PROTESTS SWEEP THE PLANET
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_Jessica Byrne_ / Thred (London)
The cost of living is now higher than it’s been in four decades.
Citizen protests are erupting around the world, despite being granted
government subsidies and promises of capped energy prices. What will
happen when winter arrives?
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AFGHAN GIRLS STAND AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSURE
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
Dozens of girls protest in Gardez city after the Taliban shuts four
schools, which were reopened on the intervention of tribal elders and
school principals.
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HOW THESE BRITISH WORKERS WON A 44% RAISE
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_Polly Smythe_ / Novara Media (London)
Thanks to a campaign supported by Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise (SNAP)
and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU), workers at a
Sheffield food hall have secured a whopping 44% pay rise, an end to
zero-hours contracts, and ready access to protective cleaning
equipment.
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WHAT HAITI NEEDS
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_Tanya Wadhwa_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
On September 7, tens of thousands of citizens hit the streets in the
capital Port-au-Prince and other major cities in rejection of
widespread insecurity, severe scarcity of fuel, high cost of living,
and the devaluation of the national currency against the USD. In
Port-au-Prince, protesters organized roadblocks with burning tires,
rocks, and trucks.
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KOHEI SAITO’S _CAPITAL IN THE ANTHROPOCENE_
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_Justin McCurry_ / The Guardian (London)
A Japanese academic’s book on Marxism and the environment has become
a surprise bestseller, and will soon be available in English. It
argues that capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying
the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing
down social production and sharing wealth.
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MORE ON CHILE
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_Noam Titelman_ / NACLA Report (New York)
What one year ago seemed like it would be a formality to ratify the
constitutional process ended up being a crushing defeat for
progressive Chilean forces. How did a process that began with a
historic level of support end up so truncated? What happened to the
support for the constitutional process?
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LGBTQ IN EASTERN EUROPE
* UKRAINE
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_Enrique Anarte_ / Gay Times (London)
* POLAND
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_Daniel Tilles_ / Notes From Poland (Kraków)
* SERBIA
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/ Peoples Dispatch
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RUNNING AS SEWER SOCIALISTS IN
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_Dr. Karina Zeidler_ / The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
The Sewer Socialists who ran Milwaukee in the early 20th century
didn’t just do a little trimming around the edges of the misery of
American urban life. Instead, they made everyone’s lives measurably
better. In Vancouver, all levels of government have simply failed to
tax the rich enough to pay for delivering safe air, and we are paying
the price in needless illness, injury, and death.
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PROTESTS PUSH INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES
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_Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia_ / Reuters (London)
Indonesia will review minimum wage and other labour rules, the
president’s office said on Tuesday, after trade unions staged
nation-wide protests against a recent hike in petrol prices that they
say has come even as incomes stagnate.
* Africa
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* climate justice
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* decolonization
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* mass protest
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* cost of living
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* Afghanistan
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* women's rights
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* Haiti
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* Chile
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* Chile constitution
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* LGBTQ
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* Ukraine
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* Poland
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* Serbia
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* Vancouver
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* VOTE Socialist
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* Indonesia
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* Minimum Wage
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* Kohei Saito
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* Capital in the Anthropocene
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* Japan
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