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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 10, 2024
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_ Overviews and takeaways _
Swiss member of Senior Women for Climate Rosmarie Wydler-Walti talks
to Greta Thunberg after the European Court for Human Rights ruling
that climate protection is a government obligation. Credit, AP
Photo/Jean-François Badias
* A Revolution in Russia?
* Venezuela Report
* Jayati Ghosh: Analysis and a Call to Action
* Senior Women Win Climate Lawsuit
* Working Class Environmentalism
* UK Protesters Shut Down Israeli Military Contractor
* LGBTQ+ in Africa
* Syrians Protest Prison Torture
* Haitian Defenders
* Marxist Theory in Japan
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A REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA?
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_Mikhail Lobanov_ / Links (Sydney)
The war in Ukraine can only truly end once there has been profound
political change in Russia. A revolution or profound political change
is indeed possible in Russia in the medium term. A lot of the people
with experience in political participation are from younger
generations, and in this demographic left-wing and democratic views
are the most widespread.
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VENEZUELA REPORT
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_Steve Ellner_ / Venezuelanalysis (Caracas)
Since the early days of Chávez, Washington has favored the
opposition’s radical right wing, not so much the opposition as a
whole. The U.S. has gone from Leopoldo López to Guaidó and now to
María Corina Machado. All polls indicate that Machado is popular
with the opposition’s rank and file, but her program for Venezuela,
her confrontational approach and her pro-U.S. discourse are not.
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JAYATI GHOSH: ANALYSIS AND A CALL TO ACTION
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_Sorcha Brennan_ / Frontiers (Lausanne)
We really need to transform our global food systems, to move away from
a heavily commercialized and chemical agriculture to one that relies
much more on local produce, on enabling and living with the current
environment and a nature that is changing. By using traditional
knowledge, we give validity and viability to smallholders — small
cultivators in agriculture — rather than the big corporations.
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SENIOR WOMEN WIN CLIMATE LAWSUIT
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_Ajit Niranjan_ / The Guardian (London)
The KlimaSeniorinnen, a group of 2,400 older Swiss women, told the
court that several of their rights were being violated. Because older
women are more likely to die in heatwaves – which have become
hotter and more common because of fossil fuels – they argued that
Switzerland should do its share to stop the planet heating by the
Paris agreement target of 1.5C (2.7F) above preindustrial levels.
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WORKING CLASS ENVIRONMENTALISM
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_Lorenzo Feltrin and Emanuele Leonardi _/ Platforms, Populisms,
Pandemics and Riots (London ONT)
It is necessary to break free from the fetish of a complicity between
capital and the environment to open the space to (re)link
environmental and labour movements. The memory of the struggles of
half a century ago takes on a renewed relevance today. The convergence
between workplace disputes and climate and environmental mobilisations
reveals itself as extremely timely.
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UK PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN ISRAELI MILITARY CONTRACTOR
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Al Mayadeen English (Beirut)
UK-based Palestine Action activists "occupied" a US-owned Teledyne
factory in West Yorkshire in the UK on because it exports weapons for
the Israeli occupation forces. In its statement, the group said,
"Breaching security, the activists have scaled the factory to take the
roof, forcing the site closed and rendering it unable to fulfill its
shipment of weapons parts to be used in the Gaza genocide."
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LGBTQ+ IN AFRICA
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_Clarisse Sih and Bibbi Abruzzini_ / Global Voices (Amsterdam)
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countries in the world whose laws criminalise homosexuality, and
nearly half of these are in Africa. Many of the laws criminalising
homosexual relations date from colonial times. This reality is
pushing many queer people to choose the relative comfort of the closet
while dreaming of a day when they will be free at last.
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SYRIANS PROTEST PRISON TORTURE
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_Ali Haj Suleiman and Husam Hezaber_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Despite the dangers of dissent, people in northwestern Syria have been
taking to the streets in recent weeks to protest an armed group formed
out of an al-Qaeda breakaway faction. Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
controls a large portion of Idlib province. Protests with hundreds
of participants have taken place across Idlib, with banners calling
HTS prisons “slaughterhouses”.
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HAITIAN DEFENDERS
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_Danny Shaw_ / Truthout (Sacramento)
Exasperated by mercenaries raping, looting and massacring their
communities, neighborhoods set to kicking the sanguinary criminals
out. The decentralized movement exploded, inspiring neighborhoods
across the sprawling city to take every measure to defend themselves
from government-linked death squads.
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MARXIST THEORY IN JAPAN
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_Gavin Walker_ / Historical Materialism (London)
While little-known in contemporary European or North American
intellectual circles, Marxism was the dominant strand of theoretical
inquiry in Japan for most of the 20th century. Japanese has remained
perhaps the most important language for Marxist-theoretical
scholarship beyond English, German, and French, yet its theoretical
history remains isolated within its own linguistic boundaries.
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* Jayati Ghosh
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* Switzerland
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* Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz
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* European Court of Human Rights
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* Climate
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* Environmentalism
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* Palestine Action
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* United Kingdom
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* Israel
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* Africa
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* LGBTQ
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* Syria
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* Haiti
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* Marxism
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