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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FEBRUARY 1, 2023  
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February 1, 2023
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Demonstrators take part in an anti-government protest after Peru's
former President Pedro Castillo was ousted, in Lima, Peru January 23,
2023. Credit, REUTERS/Angela Ponce

 

* Alain Badiou: 13 Theses
* For New Internationalism
* The Forward March of the Left Compromised
* What is “Populism”?
* Canadian Socialists Confer
* The Assassination of Thulani Maseko
* Radicals in Israel
* South Korean Unions Attacked
* A Europe for the People and the Planet
* CELAC Meets in Buenos Aires

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Alain Badiou: 13 Theses
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_Alain Badiou_ / Verso Books (London)

The current conjuncture demands rigorous analysis if we are to
understand the political moment and develop a strategy to respond to
it. The respected philosopher Badiou undertakes this task,
offering thirteen theses on global politics today and suggesting an
organizing strategy for the Left given those conditions.

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For New Internationalism
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_Daphne Lawless_ / Fightback (Auckland)

We understand that one imperialist power will only help those
oppressed by another if by doing so it furthers its own selfish
interests. But _we do not consider these inter-imperialist wranglings
to be the central issue. _We do not assume the right to tell any
peoples in struggle what forms of help they are permitted to
receive. 

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The Labour Party and the UK Left
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_Liam Payne_ / Labour Hub (London)

Local parties and organisations can provide a good vehicle for local
community work and support, with the attendant benefit of promotion,
and having a say in national political parties allows the left to
maintain an important presence and build its base. This work can take
place alongside engaging in the growing strength and militancy of the
British trade unions.

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POPULISM, FASCISM, NEOLIBERALISM
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_Prabhat Patnaik_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)

The neoliberal regime has developed its own discourse and vocabulary
and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. The term
“populism” in its current use covers both fascist and semi-fascist
appeals to the people on issues that deliberately camouflage their
oppression, as well as all attempts to secure some gains for them to
alleviate their oppression. 

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CANADIAN SOCIALISTS CONFER
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_Robert Hackett_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

Globally, societies face intersecting crises of ecology and climate,
democracy, inequality and international order. What then can
socialism offer in response to the predicament in which we find
ourselves? That was the theme of an online conference held by the
Simon Fraser University Institute for the Humanities and others. That
overarching question sparked many related ones.

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THE ASSASINATION OF THULANI MASEKO
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

Activist and lawyer Thulani Maseko, who was at the forefront of
Swaziland’s struggle for democracy, was gunned down hours after King
Mswati’s threatening speech to pro-democracy activists. PUDEMO
President Mlungisi Makhanya talks about Thulani’s struggle and what
his killing means for the country.

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RADICALS IN ISRAEL
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_Ben Reiff_ / 972+ (Tel Aviv)

The “radical bloc”, composed of independent activists,
established anti-occupation groups, and a contingent from the
left-wing Hadash party, has grown larger with each demonstration over
the past three weekends. They carried Palestinian flags and banners
bearing slogans such as “There’s no democracy with apartheid,”
and “A nation that occupies another nation will never be free.” 

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_Dae-Oup Chang_ / Asian Labour Review (Hong Kong)

On 18 January, the National Intelligence Service and police raided the
headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU),
invoking the rarely used National Security Act. Within 48 hours, a
number of other union offices were raided, and union officers
arrested. Why did the government raid and attack the KCTU and other
unions in such a concerted manner?

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A Europe for the People and the Planet
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_Martin Schirdewan_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)

A speech at the 7th Party Congress of the European Left (EL) in Vienna
in December 2022, by the Co-President of Germany’s Die Linke party
as well as of the Left Group in the European Parliament.

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CELAC MEETS IN BUENOS AIRES

* LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN LEADERS PULL TOGETHER
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  _Tanya Wadhwa_ / Peoples Dispatch
 
* LULA’S SPEECH
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* SOCIAL MOVEMENT LEADERS AT CELAC MEET
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  _Fernanda Paixão_ / Brasil de Fato (São Paulo)
 
* CELAC AND THE PERUVIAN REBELLION   _Ángel Guerra Cabrera_ /
Rebelión (Madrid)
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_Regarding the vigorous rebellion in Peru, I think it is essential to
emphasize the decisive role of the peoples and their political and
social struggles in the conception and advancement of progressive
governments._

In the same way, this advance was indispensable to the generation of
an architecture of regional or subregional organizations, including
CELAC, which sought the unity and integration of Latin America and the
Caribbean. With the emergence of Hugo Chávez, a first cycle of
progressive governments and the aforementioned architecture in the
transition from the twentieth to the 21st century had much to do with
_El Caracazo _[the 1989 wave of violent protest in Venezuela] and, in
general, a cycle of harsh Latin American and Caribbean popular
resistance against neoliberal policies. These rebellions, through
multifaceted popular mobilizations, came to impose their hegemony via
the ballot. This was, with a few exceptions, unthinkable just a few
years earlier. The role of armed and patriotic military movements in
enabling revolutionary and progressive organizations to reach the
government by electoral means has not yet been thoroughly discussed.

But the revolutionary, democratic and progressive forces today face
new and serious challenges. The most important of them is the rise of
the extreme right and neo-fascism, willing to use all means to
overthrow or disparage the victories of progressive forces, as we have
recently seen in Brazil or as observed in Argentina with such ominous
acts as the attempted murder of Vice President Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner and the onslaught against democracy by the judicial party
[conservative judges and lawyers controlling the judiciary] allied
with _Macrismo_ [ex-president Mauricio Macri]. Or,  the provocations
and acts of violence against President Nicolás Maduro in the days
leading up to the VII CELAC Summit, prepared by the political forces
linked to Macri and his friends in Miami, always associated with the
embassies of the United States and Israel. The shooting backfired;
they could not achieve their goal of disrupting the meeting, and
although President Maduro very wisely did not make the trip, the
Venezuelan and Bolivarian presence was very active.

Meanwhile, in Peru, the popular movement mobilized after political
demands at the national level, the only such movement in its entire
history, continued in full strength, as described by Hector Béjar,
one of the most lucid intellectuals and social fighters in the
country. And he added: we are in a process that pushes out the old
system and ushers in a new one. And most likely, if this movement
persists and grows, the demand for a Constituent Assembly and a new
Constitution will continue to rise until it becomes hegemonic.

In other words, the far-right parliamentary-military-media
dictatorship fully implemented in the Andean country after the coup
d’état against constitutional president Pedro Castillo has closed
political paths. But the obvious political reality is that the
creative Peruvian popular movement is demonstrating, with courage and
intelligence, that, despite the fierce police and military repression
of Mrs. Boluarte, it can reopen those paths and, eventually, impose
its agenda through mass mobilization. After the regional extreme right
was defeated in its attempt to abort the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires,
it faced another great defeat in Peru, if the popular movement, once
again, manages to make hegemonic its demands to convene a Constituent
Assembly and the drafting of a new Constitution that revokes the
current one bequeathed from Fujimori. They must have taken note of the
resounding victory of their Bolivian brothers, against the coup and
the dictatorship that tried to cut off their emancipatory process.

The VII CELAC Summit can be described as historic. With the
Argentinian presidency, the path of resuscitation of Latin-Caribbean
unity and integration, which was begun so brilliantly by Mexico, and
relaunched with the very important reinstatement of Lula in Brazil,
reached a very promising new stage of work. With the election of Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines as CELAC’s new _pro tempore _president,
that responsibility is granted to the English-speaking Caribbean for
the first time. That country’s prime minister, the experienced and
capable Ralph Gonsalves, will surely give this process a new impetus.
Very noteworthy statements, reiterated in several documents, rejected
the criminal blockade of Cuba, and demanded that Cuba be freed from
yet another terrible twist on the blockade, Washington’s spurious
and harmful list of countries allegedly promoting terrorism.

* Alain Badiou
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* Internationalism
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* UK
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* Labour Party
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* Jeremy Corbyn
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* populism
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* Canada
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* socialists
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* Swaziland
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* Thulani Maseko
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* Israel
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* South Korea
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* Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
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* Europe
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* Party of the European Left
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* Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
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* CELAC
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* Argentina
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* Brazil
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* Lula da Silva
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* CELAC SOCIAL
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* Peru
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