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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – APRIL 30, 2025  
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_ Here, there and everywhere _

A 1980 May Day poster by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour. Credit,
Liberation Graphics

 

* May Day is Here
* Brazil, Poland, South Korea: Ousting Autocrats
* Vietnam’s 50 Years Since Liberation
* Mobilizing Rage in Turkey
* Colombia: Petro vs Petrol
* Albania’s New Left
* Reflections on the Nonaligned Movement
* LGBTQ Fight from Uganda to Sri Lanka
* Indian and Pakistani Left are on Alert
* New Democratic Wipeout as Canadians Rally Against Trump

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May Day is Here
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_Eric Hobsbawm_ / Tribune (London)

In one way May 1 is significant because it helps to explain why Marx
became so influential in labour movements composed of men and women
who had not heard of him before, but recognised his call to become
conscious of themselves as a class and to organise as such. In
another, it is important, because it demonstrates the historic power
of grassroots thought and feeling.

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BRAZIL, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA: OUSTING AUTOCRATS
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_John Feffer_ / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)

It took a decade to get rid of Milosevic in Serbia, nearly two decades
to oust Pinochet in Chile, slightly more than two decades to overthrow
Marcos in the Philippines, and more than a half-century to depose the
Assad regime in Syria. But in recent years, more compressed
resistance defeated autocrats in Brazil, Poland, and South Korea.
What can we learn from them?

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Vietnam’s 50 Years Since Liberation

* NEVER FORGET
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  _Ngô Thanh Nhàn and Juliet Ucelli_ / Liberation Road Notes (New
York)
 
* SPRINT TO 2030
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  _Phan Xuân Dũng_ / East Asia Forum (Canberra)
 
* THE SCARRED ENVIRONMENT
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  _Pamela McElwee_ / The Conversation (Waltham MA)

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MOBILIZING RAGE IN TURKEY
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_Başak Kocadost_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)

The Justice and Development Party government’s targeting of the
mainstream opposition through Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu signals
a new phase in the country’s authoritarian consolidation. This move
has driven hundreds of thousands into the streets, convinced that even
the most basic democratic right — the right to vote and be elected
— is being openly stripped away from them.

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COLOMBIA: PETRO VS PETROL
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_Patricia Rodríguez_ / NACLA Report (New York)

The Petro administration has made the goal of ending fossil fuel
extraction a central part of its agenda. For the communities most
impacted by the oil and gas industry, crafting a collaborative,
democratic, and just energy policy is a key part of combating
the violence and dispossession that these industries and the state
have historically brought to their lands.

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ALBANIA’S NEW LEFT
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_Barbara Steiner and Jani Marka_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)

In December 2022, _Organizata Politike_ decided to take a new step
and enter electoral politics, founding the party _Lëvizja BASHKË
– Movement Together_. The party ran in the 2023 local elections in
Tirana. The result was surprisingly strong – we came third, gaining
around 5% of the vote. This was very encouraging for such a new party,
with no funding or media coverage.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE NONALIGNED MOVEMENT
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_Ahilan Kadirgamar_ / Daily Mirror (Colombo)

Archie Singham wrote a fascinating account of the NAM conference in
Colombo. While one saw the decline of the colonial powers in Europe,
one also saw the emergence of a newly reconstructed capitalism led by
the United States. Many of the nations of the world, and indeed even
the capitalist nations, opposed colonialism, but very few of the
capitalist nations would oppose imperialism.

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LGBTQ FIGHT FROM UGANDA TO SRI LANKA
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_Clarisse Sih and Bibbi Abruzzini_ / Global Voices (The Hague)

Across Africa, 31 countries still criminalize homosexuality. These
laws, often rooted in colonial-era statutes, continue to endanger and
oppress millions of LGBTQ+ individuals across the continent. Advocacy
groups like Sexual Minorities Uganda have been instrumental in
rallying international solidarity and raising awareness about the
plight of LGBTQ+ communities in Africa.

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INDIAN AND PAKISTANI LEFT ARE ON ALERT
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Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

Left and progressive forces in India and Pakistan have condemned the
recent attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir wherein 26 people, mostly tourists,
were killed by unidentified armed men on April 22. They warned
against attempts by right-wing forces to capitalize on the attack to
spread hatred. Large rallies were organized by Kashmiris across the
state.

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NEW DEMOCRATIC WIPEOUT AS CANADIANS RALLY AGAINST TRUMP
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_David Moscrop_ / New Statesman (London)

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh struggled to keep his emotions in check late
Monday night as he took the stage at his campaign headquarters in
Burnaby, B.C., to deliver the bad news: his fight is over. Poised to
finish third in his own riding, Singh's party is projected to lose 17
of the 24 seats, leaving the New Democrats without official party
status, having fallen short of the 12-MP minimum.

* May Day
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* Brazil
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* Poland
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* South Korea
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* autocracy
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* Vietnam
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* Vietnam War
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* Liberation
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* environment
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* Turkey
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* Colombia
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* Fossil Fuel
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* Gustavo Petro
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* Albania
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* Nonaligned Movement
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* LGBTQ
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* Uganda
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* Sri Lanka
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* India
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* Pakistan
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* Pahalgam
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* Canada
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* New Democratic Party
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* Donald Trump
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