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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 23, 2025
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April 23, 2025
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_ Democracy not rearmament _
Union leaders gather at the memorial stone of Richard Lipper, a young
Belgian resistance fighter executed by the Nazis in 1944. Brussels,
April 15, 2025. Credit, European Federation of Public Service Unions
* India: Code Red for Workers
* More on Rearmament and Ukraine
* Women’s Fight in Iran
* LGBTQ Rage in Hungary, UK
* Mutual Aid in War Torn Sudan
* Māori Rights Victory in NZ
* Red Wave in Finland
* South Africa: Transformative Left Politics
* Portugal’s Carnation Revolution — 1975 and Today
* Can China Save the World?
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INDIA: CODE RED FOR WORKERS
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_T.K. Rajalakshmi_ / Frontline (Mumbai)
Ten central trade unions, including unions affiliated to the Congress,
the Left parties, and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), have called
for a strike on May 20 against the implementation of new labor
codes. The unions will be joined by unorganised workers’ unions and
employees’ federations.
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MORE ON REARMAMENT AND UKRAINE
* LEFT DEBATE
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Carujo_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
* UKRAINE AND REARM EUROPE
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_Simon Pirani_ / People and Nature (Oxford)
* GLOBAL DISORDER
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Pastor and Juan Tortosa_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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WOMEN’S FIGHT IN IRAN
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_Shabnam von Hein_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
Despite repression, more and more women can be seen on the streets of
major cities like Tehran and Mashhad without a headscarf, refusing to
be told how to present themselves in public. “The ‘Women, Life,
Freedom’ movement has transformed us.”
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LGBTQ RAGE IN HUNGARY, UK
* DEFYING PRIDE BAN
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_Krisztina Fenyo and Gergely Szakacs_ / Reuters (London)
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* DEFENDING TRANS RIGHTS
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_James Tapper_ / The Guardian (London)
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MUTUAL AID IN WAR TORN SUDAN
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_Philip Kleinfeld_ / The New Humanitarian (Geneva)
The fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces – driven by an effort to crush Sudan’s revolution – has
produced the world’s largest displacement crisis, uprooting over 12
million people. The backbone of relief efforts has been youth-driven
and neighbourhood-based mutual aid groups known as emergency response
rooms, which were set up at the outset of the war.
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MĀORI RIGHTS VICTORY IN NZ
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_Todd Symons_ / CNN (Atlanta)
New Zealand politicians broke out in song after striking down a
right-wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode
indigenous rights. Tens of thousands of people – predominantly from
the Māori community – had already taken to the streets to oppose
the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that British
colonialists signed more than 180 years ago.
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RED WAVE IN FINLAND
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_Mike Watson_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Chair of the right-wing populist Finns Party Riikka Purra admitted
defeat on results night, describing a “red wave” sweeping Finland.
While the Social Democratic Party increased its percentage share, the
democratic socialist Left Alliance and the Green League did not suffer
as a result, as in previous elections.
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SOUTH AFRICA: TRANSFORMATIVE LEFT POLITICS
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_Hein Marais_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
The latest book by Vishwas Satgar, one of South Africa’s leading
figures on the left, is a trove for anyone seeking a clearer
understanding of the country’s hobbled efforts to step free of its
past and a beacon for seeing past the gloom. _A Love Letter to the
Many _gathers three decades of writing and reflection.
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PORTUGAL’S CARNATION REVOLUTION — 1975 AND TODAY
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_Raquel Varela_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
On April 25, 2024, the 50th anniversary of the crucial coup d’état
by the Armed Forces Movement, 600 thousand people, dominated by
workers, families, and young people, rallied to celebrate the
‘conquests of the Revolution’, the last genuinely socialist
revolution in 20th-century Europe. It was one of the largest popular
demonstrations the country has seen in 50 years.
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CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD?
* MAYBE
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_Lu Xinyu_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
* MAYBE NOT
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_Sean Kenji Starrs_ / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)
* India
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* workers
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* Europe rearmament
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* Ukraine
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* Women
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* Iran
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* Hungary
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* UK
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* LGBTQ
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* trans rights
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* Sudan
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* mutual aid
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* New Zealand
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* Maori people
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* Finland
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* South Africa
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* Vishwas Satgar
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* Portugal
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* Carnation Revolution
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* China
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