[Focus on China and Germany]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 13, 2023
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December 13, 2023
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_ Focus on China and Germany _
European Trade Union Confederation members hold banners at a
demonstration against government policies in Brussels on December 12,
2023. Credit, Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images
* Euro Labor Confronts EU on Austerity
* Peru Rages On
* Tesla Strike Gets Transnational Support
* Can Guatemalans Save Their Democratic Elections?
* Thinking About China
* Mandela’s Many Aspects
* Germany in Focus
* A Global Inspiration in Pakistan
* Māori Protesters: NZ Going Backwards
* Greta Thunberg: No Climate Justice Without Human Rights
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EURO LABOR CONFRONTS EU ON AUSTERITY
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_Julia Conley_ / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
Labor leaders in the European Union on Tuesday estimated that 15,000
people from across the bloc had traveled to central Brussels to
march against austerity measures expected to go into effect after the
New Year, with workers demanding fair wages and sufficient funding for
public services.
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PERU RAGES ON
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_Susanna De Guio_ / openDemocracy (London)
One year after protests in Peru were violently suppressed in the wake
of president Pedro Castillo’s dismissal from office, demonstrations
are taking place again. The search for truth and justice is among the
main demands for the protests in Lima and across the country. But
demonstrators also want to see the resignation of Castillo’s
replacement Dina Boluarte and a fresh election.
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SWEDEN: TESLA STRIKE GETS TRANSNATIONAL SUPPORT
* IF METALL VS ELON MUSK
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_Gunhild Wallin_ / Nordic Labour Journal (Oslo)
* SCANDINAVIAN UNIONS BACK STRIKE
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_Pete Syme_ / Business Insider (New York)
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CAN GUATEMALANS SAVE THEIR DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?
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_Graciela Mochkofsky_ / The New Yorker
As autocrats are being voted into office across the region and the
world, Guatemala, a country with a long history of dictatorships and
corrupt governments, is fighting to insure a victory for democracy. In
an unprecedented step, the protests are being led by Indigenous
communities, who lost more than a hundred thousand people in a
three-decade-long genocidal war, from 1960 to 1996.
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THINKING ABOUT CHINA
* CHINA’S LEFT
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_Christopher Connery And Ralf Ruckus_ / Made In China
(Canberra)
* A NEW STRIKE WAVE
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_Haoju Lu_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
* A VIEW FROM HONG KONG
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_Federico Fuentes and Au Loong-yu_ / Links (Sydney)
* A VIEW FROM TAIWAN
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_Filip Noubel_ / Global Voices (Amsterdam)
* DEATH OF A PREMIER
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_Oiwan Lam_ / Global Voices
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MANDELA’S MANY ASPECTS
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_Dale T. McKinley_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The contradictory nature of Mandela’s post-1994 political and
ideological journey parallels the first few years of South Africa’s
democratic transition. He played a central role in introducing and
institutionally managing a trade-off: namely, the gaining of
democratic legitimacy alongside political control of the state without
a corresponding transformation of the socio-economic base.
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GERMANY IN FOCUS
* LINKE CONFERENCE
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_Cornelia Hildebrandt_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
* FIGHTING NEOFASCISM
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_Thomas Klikauer_ / Cross-border Talks (Warsaw)
* GERMANY’
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PRO-ISRAEL ANTIFASCISTS
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_James Jackson_ / Novara Media (London)
* WEST AND EAST TODAY
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_Neal Ascherson_ / London Review of Books
* BERLIN PRIDE
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_M.G. Zimeta_ / London Review of Books
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A GLOBAL INSPIRATION IN PAKISTAN
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_Freshta Jalalzai_ / The Diplomat (Washington)
Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, recognized for his iconic red hat and
outspoken criticism of Pakistan’s powerful military for inciting
violence and instilling fear in the Pashtun lands, went missing on
December 4. Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement –
a civil rights movement advocating for the rights of the Pashtun
ethnic group – was arrested after addressing a rally in
Balochistan.
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MĀORI PROTESTERS: NZ GOING BACKWARDS
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_George Heagney_ / Stuff (Wellington)
Māori and non Māori held protest events across the country on
Tuesday morning, part of a National Māori Action Day, in response to
policies from the new rightist-led Government. Demonstrators
oppose removing co-governance, introducing a Treaty of Waitangi
Principles Bill and repealing the Smokefree 2025 law.
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GRETA THUNBERG: NO CLIMATE JUSTICE WITHOUT HUMAN RIGHTS
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_Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future Sweden_ / The Guardian
(London)
Fridays for Future has not “been radicalised” or “become
political”. We have always been political, because we have always
been a movement for justice. Standing in solidarity with Palestinians
and all affected civilians has never been in question for us.
* EU
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* Austerity
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* European Trade Union Confederation
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* Peru
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* Pedro Castillo
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* Dina Boluarte
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* Sweden
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* Tesla
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* IF Metall
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* Guatemala
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* Bernardo Arévalo
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* China
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* workers
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* Ralf Ruckus
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* Taiwan
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* Hong Kong
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* Au Loong-yu
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* Brian Hioe
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* Li Keqiang
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* Nelson Mandela
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* Germany
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* Die Linke
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* neofascism
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* Israel
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* anti-Deutsch
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* West Germany
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* East Germany
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* Gay Pride
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* Berlin
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* Pakistan
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* Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen
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* Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
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* Māori Party
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* New Zealand
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* Greta Thunberg
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* Palestine
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