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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 29, 2024  
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May 29, 2024
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_ Election season is challenging the left in South Africa, India and
the UK _

Protesters take part in a gathering organised by the pro-independence
coalition of the Cellule de Coordination de Terrain (CCAT) outside the
Noumea courthouse in support of 14 activists on trial for obstructing
traffic and damaging property. Credit, AFP / Theo Rouby/AFP via Getty
Images

 

* Multi-Imperialism?
* Ontario Unions Call for Support for Student Palestine Action
* Social Democratic Dilemmas
* Big Elections
* The Brothers Ortega
* Taming Amazon, Renewing Labor
* New Caledonia and France
* People’s Rights in Jammu Kashir
* Hungary: Sparks of Hopes
* Sudan: Revolutionaries and Peace

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MULTI-IMPERIALISM?
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_Ilya Matveev_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

Vast shifts in the world economy are driving a new imperialist
rivalry, for which a series of regional wars are creating dangerous
flash points.

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ONTARIO UNIONS CALL FOR SUPPORT FOR STUDENT PALESTINE ACTION
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_Laura Walton_ / rabble.ca (Toronto)

As in 1968, a similar dynamic is underway, as parents, professors, and
campus workers show up to support the students–many of them facing
arrest, too. Labour leaders are also speaking out, defending freedom
of speech and assembly and other civil liberties. We need to show up,
speak out, and back the students. The forces attacking their rights
are the same ones attacking ours.

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SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS
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_Eric Shaw_ / Chartist (London)

If we extend our angle of vison to include Labour’s sister parties
in the rest of Western Europe, a clear, common pattern emerges almost
without exception over the last couple of decades: their electorates
have been shrinking.

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BIG ELECTIONS

* SOUTH AFRICA
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 _Mazibuko Jara and Federico Fuentes_ / Links (Sydney)
 
* INDIA
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 _Sanjay Jha_ / The Wire (New Delhi)
 
* UK
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 _Mike Phipps_ / Labour Hub (London)

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THE BROTHERS ORTEGA
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_Wilfredo Miranda_ / EL PAÍS (Madrid) 

The retired Sandinista general and brother of President Daniel Ortega
has again launched criticism of the authoritarian Nicaraguan
administration and questioned its ability to establish a succession
based around the figure of the ‘co-president’.

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TAMING AMAZON, RENEWING LABOR
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_Sam Gindin_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

In considering the ‘Amazon Challenge,’ two inter-related
realities, controversial to many, are central: the depth of labour’s
decades-long defeat and the identification of Amazon as the iconic
21st century corporation. Success at Amazon could make credible
labour’s claim that “In our hands is placed a power greater than
their hoarded gold.” Failure would consolidate labour’s defeats.

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NEW CALEDONIA AND FRANCE
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_Colin Falconer_ / Green Left (Sydney)

The French government has declared a state of emergency in the
country’s semi-autonomous overseas territory of New Caledonia.
Residents in the mainly European districts have organised armed
vigilante (or “self-defence”) groups.  Many of the indigenous
Kanak rioters are also armed. Increasingly politically conscious and
educated young Kanaks and women, in particular, are proud of their
culture and committed to independence. 

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PEOPLE’S RIGHTS IN JAMMU KASHIR
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_Haris Qadeer_ / Asian Marxist Review (Lahore)

The ongoing peoples rights movement in Pakistani-administered Jammu
Kashmir has finally emerged victorious after a year-long struggle. In
a decisive phase, the people effectively paralyzed the state’s
functioning across the region for over five days, culminating in a
massive procession marching towards Muzaffarabad. Facing mounting
pressure, the state issued a notification accepting the demands before
the rally could reach the capital.

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HUNGARY: SPARKS OF HOPES
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_Áron Rossman-Kiss_ / transform! europe (Vienna)

If, a few exceptions aside, the Left has made only little electoral
inroads in Hungary during the past decade, a lively left-wing scene
has nevertheless emerged. Still small, Budapest-centric, and
inevitably beset by fierce disagreement, it has nevertheless
contributed to broadening the terms and possibilities of political
imagination.

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SUDAN: REVOLUTIONARIES AND PEACE
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_Mohammed Amin_ / Middle East Eye (London)

The resistance committees - nationwide groups of local activists that
have been at the heart of Sudan’s revolutionary movement - have,
along with the affiliated emergency response rooms (ERR), been
organising lifesaving wartime support across Sudan, and are actively
trying to bring the war to an end. In a document titled, “The
political vision to end the war in Sudan,” the resistance committees
have detailed their bottom-up approach to solving the crisis in Sudan
through political pressure and popular organising. 

* imperialism
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* China
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* world economy
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* Palestine
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* students
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* Ontario Federation of Labour
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* Social Democrats
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* elections
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* South Africa
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* African National Congress
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* India
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* UK
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* Labour Party
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* Nicaragua
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* Daniel Ortega
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* Umberto Ortega
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* Amazon
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* union organizing
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* New Caledonia
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* France
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* Kanak people
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* Jammu Kashir
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* Pakistan
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* Hungary
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* Sudan
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