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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 22, 2024
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May 22, 2024
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_ Burning questions _
Labor unions in Nigeria picketed offices of public electricity
utilities in major cities as they asked authorities to counteract
price hikes that have worsened the country’s cost of living crisis.
Credit, AP Photo/Sunday Alamba
* Kagarlitsky on War, Fascism and Revolution
* Sustaining Sudan’s Revolution
* Finnish Left Fights Neoliberalism
* The Hamas Question
* Marxism, Feminism and the Mexican Election
* A Cautious Statement From Nigerian Unions
* Target: Tesla
* New Hope for Labor in Guatemala
* In UK, Climate Action Hooks Up With Palestine Solidarity
* China’s Left Intellectuals Embrace Xi’s Dream
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KAGARLITSKY ON WAR, FASCISM AND REVOLUTION
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_Boris Kagarlitsky_ / Links (Sydney)
The aggressiveness of the Kremlin leadership was predetermined by its
desperate and fruitless attempts to escape from Russia’s growing
internal political crisis. At the same time, the war that broke out in
2022 was a consequence and one of the manifestations of the global
socio-economic crisis that had resulted from the exhaustion of the
possibilities of the neoliberal model of capitalism.
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SUSTAINING SUDAN’S REVOLUTION
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_Rabab Elnaiem and Marya Hannun_ / MERIP (Chicago)
A Sudanese labor organizer speaks about_ _political organizing in
Sudan during the 2018–2019 uprising, the transition period and in
the war that has followed.
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FINNISH LEFT FIGHTS NEOLIBERALISM
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_Li Andersson and Duroyan Fertl_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
One of the big challenges the Left will face in the coming years will
be to expose once again the problems arising from austerity, and the
implications it will have for all of Europe in terms of being able to
make investments, not only in social policy and the social sector, but
also in the energy transition and renewables.
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THE HAMAS QUESTION
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_Matan Kaminer_ / Verso (London)
If Operation _Al_-_Aqsa_ Flood is to become a model for the
counter-systemic insurgencies of the future, what are the implications
for the possibility of constructing a movement that is not
only _against _US imperialism but also _for_ the establishment of
a global, anti-racist, liberationist eco-socialism?
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MARXISM, FEMINISM AND THE MEXICAN ELECTION
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_José Ovejero_ / Worldcrunch (Paris)
I read some of the statements by current President Andrés Manuel
López Obrador (AMLO) and understand that many Mexican women may feel,
like Kolontái or Zetkin, that quite a few leftist men see feminist
demands as an obstacle to their project. Will things change with a
president such as Claudia Sheinbaum — a leftist and openly
feminist woman?
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A CAUTIOUS STATEMENT FROM NIGERIAN UNIONS
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_Victor AhiumaYoung_ / Vanguard (Lagos)
The imperative to dismantle barriers dividing us has never been more
urgent. We must forge a cohesive movement capable of safeguarding our
interests while staying relevant to Nigerian workers amidst the
escalating challenges and impunity in our industrial landscape.
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TARGET: TESLA
* DISRUPT TESLA STORMS BERLIN PLANT
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_James Farrell_ / Forbes (New York)
* STRIKE IN SWEDEN
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_Marie Mannes_ / Reuthers (London)
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NEW HOPE FOR LABOR IN GUATEMALA
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_Jeff Abbott_ / The Progressive (Madison)
In a major shift from previous administrations, the Labor Ministry
recognized the formation of a new union formed by the workers of a
palm oil company in Petén. The union is largely made up of young
workers and is the result of years of organizing by the Guatemalan
organization _Consejo Nacional de Desplazados de Guatemala_. This is
the first union in the world to represent palm oil workers.
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IN UK, CLIMATE ACTION HOOKS UP WITH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY
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_Clare Hymer_ / Novara Media (London)
Across the country, students from Palestine and climate campaigns are
working together to highlight the links between Israel’s genocide
and the climate crisis, and universities’ role in both the arms and
fossil fuel industries – as well as sharing lessons in how to hold
occupations.
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China’s Left Intellectuals Embrace Xi’s Dream
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_David Ownby_ / China Books Review (New York)
China’s leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s,
have shifted from their socialist origins to support statism and the
China model. Where does that leave their thinking now?
* Russia
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* Ukraine
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* war
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* Fascism
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* revolution
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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* Sudan
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* Rabab Elnaiem
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* Finland
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* Li Andersson
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* Vasemmistoliitto
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* Neoliberalism
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* Palestine
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* Hamas
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* Mexico
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* Marxism
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* Feminism
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Nigeria
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* Nigerian Labor Congress
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* Nigeria Trade Union Congress
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* Tesla
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* Disrupt Tesla
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* Sweden
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* Unionen
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* Guatemala
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* Consejo Nacional de Desplazados de Guatemala
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* UK
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* Student protests
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* Palestine solidarity
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* Climate Change
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* China
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* Chinese intellectuals
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