[A planet haunted by democratic upheavals]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MARCH 22, 2023
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March 22, 2023
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_ A planet haunted by democratic upheavals _
“The toppling of the Vendome Column” by Paris communards (16 May
1871). Woodcut, 1872, coloured later. Credit, Berlin, Sammlung Archiv
für Kunst und Geschichte. Artist unknown
* The One-State Solution
* France Ignites
* New Face in Vietnam Leadership
* International Migrants’ Rights Movement
* Sinn Féin Leader on Unity Referendum
* Brazil CUT on Energy Policy
* Italy’s Amazon Strike
* LASTESIS: Set Fear on Fire
* Remembering Freedom Fighters
* Iran: Minimum Demands
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THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION
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_Mazin Qumsiyeh and Alain Alameddine_ / Palestine Chronicle
(Mountlake Terrace WA)
This is a moment of truth where we have a choice: To identify
Zionism’s politicization of identity and its endeavor to establish
a state exclusive to Jews, and to put our boycotting and
awareness-raising efforts in the context of a political vision that
depoliticizes identity and proposes the transition to One Democratic
State, from the river to the sea.
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FRANCE IGNITES
* THE PEOPLE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN MACRON
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_Angelique Chrisafis_ / The Guardian (London)
* UNITING THE OPPOSITION
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Bendali and Gala Kabbaj_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
* REFINERIES SHUT
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_Forrest Crellin_ / US News and World Report (Washington DC)
* SOCIAL FRONT
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_Jean-Luc Mélenchon_ / Jacobin (New York)
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NEW FACE IN
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LEADERSHIP
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_Hai Hong Nguyen_ / The Diplomat (Washington DC)
In early March, Communist Party Poliburo member Vo Van Thuong, who was
also then the standing member of the Secretariat, was elected by the
National Assembly to the presidency. Thuong’s appointment is part of
a recent political shake-up at the highest rungs of Vietnamese
politics.
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
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RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Red Pepper (London)
As governments borrow from each other to expand anti-migrant agendas
and regimes globally, movements to defend migrants’ rights must
likewise share strategies of resistance.
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SINN FÉIN LEADER ON UNITY REFERENDUM
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_Ronan Burtenshaw_ / Tribune (London)
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald discusses her party’s ‘big
political project’: to lead Ireland's first left-wing government,
secure a right to housing, win a unity referendum – and overcome the
‘tail ends’ of colonisation.
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BRAZIL CUT ON ENERGY POLICY
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Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (New York)
We anticipate a return to “publicness” in the Lula government in
the form of public investment in social energy programmes that fulfil
the public mandate. The Lula government will also have to work to
recover the privatisations carried out under Bolsonaro's provincial
and state governments in the transmission and distribution sectors.
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ITALY
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AMAZON STRIKE: AN INTERNATIONAL MODEL
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_Riccardo Chiari_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
The multinational company was forced to come to the negotiating table.
FILT CGIL secured the regulatory and wage improvements demanded by
the employees, on the basis of the national logistics and freight
contract. The mobilization of the 14,000 subcontracted workers in
distribution led to extended economic and regulatory improvements to
temporary and subcontracted workers.
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LASTESIS: SET FEAR ON FIRE
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_Naomi Larsson Piñeda_ / openDemocracy (London)
Back in November 2019, a group of women took over the streets of
Valparaiso, Chile. Moving their bodies in unison, they chanted words
that would go on to resonate with hundreds of thousands of people
across the world. This performance by the collective LASTESIS (The
Thesis) became a global feminist anthem within days.
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FREEDOM FIGHTERS REMEMBERED
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_Ciara Nugent_ / Time (New York)
* AMILCAR CABRAL
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_Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma, and Ben Radley_ / Review of
African Political Economy (London)
* THE PARIS COMMUNE
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_Shelton Stromquist_ / Jacobin
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IRAN: MINIMUM DEMANDS
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_Niloofar Golkar_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
On February 15th, twenty workers’ unions, feminists, students, and
one human rights organization in Iran published the Charter of
Minimum Demands of Independent Civil and Trade Unions of Iran, the
first collective document from within the country, voicing their
demands for a democratic and just future without dictatorship and
oppression.
* Palestine
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* Israel
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* France
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* protests
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* Strikes
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* Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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* Vo Van Thuong
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* Vietnam
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* migrants
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* ireland
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* Sinn Fein
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* Mary Lou McDonald
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* Brazil
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* CUT
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* Energy
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* Italy
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* Amazon
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* CGIL
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* LASTESIS
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* Chile
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* Feminism
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* Marielle Franco
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* Amilcar Cabral
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* Paris Commune
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* Iran
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