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From Idlib, Syria: Druze, Assyrian and Kurdish flags signaling
revolutionary unity, 25 August 2023. Credit, Omar Albam
* Ecuadorians Drive Out Drillers
* Can the Spanish Left Beat the Odds?
* Syrian Revolution Reborn
* Guyana: Activist Women Targeted
* Clashing Anniversaries in South Africa
* Video: Black Unity in Brazil
* Guatemala President-Elect in the Crosshairs
* State and Feminism in China
* More on Degrowth and Ecosocialism
* The Changing Climate of Class Struggle
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ECUADORIANS DRIVE OUT DRILLERS
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_Dan Collyns_ / The Guardian (London)
Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the
development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the
Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. The move
will keep about 726m barrels of oil underground in the Yasuní
national park, which is also home to the Tagaeri and Taromenane
people.
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CAN THE SPANISH LEFT BEAT THE ODDS?
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_Steven Forti_ / Jacobin (New York)
The incumbent prime minister Pedro Sánchez (leader of the Partido
Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) may consider himself the effective
political winner of July’s snap vote. Yet the 121 MPs elected for
his party and the 31 for Sumar, the left-wing coalition led by Labor
Minister Yolanda Díaz, remain just as far from the “magic”
number of 176 seats.
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SYRIAN REVOLUTION REBORN
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_Leila Al Shami_ / Links (Sydney)
On 25 August, the revolution flag flew high in villages, towns and
cities across Syria. Thousands were on the streets reviving the chants
of the 2011 revolution. Protests erupted in the south of the country
a few days ago, in regime-held Sweida and Dera’a. They were
triggered by the cost-of-living crisis, especially the recent increase
in fuel prices as subsidies were cut.
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GUYANA: ACTIVIST WOMEN TARGETED
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_Janine Mendes-Franco_ / Global Voices (Amsterdam)
Activists in Guyana are currently experiencing death threats and
other forms of intimidation for speaking out against mining, fossil
fuel extraction and sexual violence. Red Thread, a women’s
development organization, has been specifically targeted.
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CLASHING ANNIVERSARIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
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_Richard Pithouse_ / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)
In August 1983, the United Democratic Front (UDF) was launched in Cape
Town following a proposal from the charismatic radical cleric Allan
Boesak for a united front of “churches, civic associations, trade
unions, student organisations, and sports bodies.” The new movement
was committed in principle and often in practice to radical democracy
and what it termed ‘people’s power’.
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VIDEO: BLACK UNITY IN BRAZIL
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Africanews (Lyon)
Brazilian Black movements organized a national act to demand the end
of what they call a racist violence in the country, after a series
of police violence cases and massacres in several states. Called
“National Day of Fight for Black Lives”, they also claimed for
justice on the killing of a quilombola leader in Bahia, and a 13 year
old boy shot dead in a police operation in Rio de Janeiro.
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GUATEMALA PRESIDENT-ELECT IN THE CROSSHAIRS
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_Roman Gressier_ / El Faro (San José, Costa Rica)
On Monday the Supreme Electoral Tribunal both certified the victory of
President-Elect Bernardo Arévalo and temporarily suspended his
Semilla party, the latest in a chain of protracted legal battles
leading up to inauguration on January 14. The party says it will
follow every route of appeal including, if necessary, to the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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STATE AND FEMINISM IN CHINA
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_Yige Dong_ / Current History (Oakland)
A form of made-in-China feminism has emerged, characterized by
everyday resistance to prevailing gender expectations. Now, the state
is suppressing feminist activists while adopting some of their
proposals into law and policy.
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MORE ON DEGROWTH AND ECOSOCIALISM
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_Michael Löwy_ / Monthly Review (New York)
In nine theses, Michael Löwy elaborates on the central themes of
ecosocialist degrowth. “The ecological crisis,” he begins, “is
already the most important social and political question of the
twenty-first century.… The future of the planet, and thus of
humanity, will be decided in the coming decades.”
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THE CHANGING CLIMATE OF CLASS
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_John Clarke_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
The social and economic consequences of the massive disruption will
play out along deeply entrenched fault lines of inequality within and
between nations. This forces us to consider what forms of social
resistance and organization will have to be taken up. Firstly and
critically, we will have to do all we can to prevent the destructive
hand of capitalist interests from compounding the problem.
* Ecuador
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* oil extraction
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* Spain
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* elections
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* Syria
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* Guyana
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* Red Thread
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* South Africa
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* United Democratic Front
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* Marikana mine massacre
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* Brazil
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* black unity
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* Guatemala
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* Bernardo Arévalo
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* Women
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* China
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* Climate
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* class struggle
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