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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 7, 2025  
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May 7, 2025
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_ Why May Day is necessary _

May Day 2025 in Havana. Credit, AFP

 

* Internationalism at the Heart of May Day
* May Day ’25 Photos
* National Strike in Panama
* Israelis and Palestine’s Freedom Fight
* Cuba Up Against It 
* Italian Unions Hit Amazon Where it Hurts
* Myanmar and China
* From the European Left Party
* Turkey: Öcalan’s Strategy
* Wilfred Burchett and Portugal’s Brief Revolution

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INTERNATIONALISM AT THE HEART OF MAY DAY
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_Ben Hayes_ / Labour Hub (London)

A clear majority of the 25 largest protests recorded in the UK to date
have been called over issues of foreign policy and peace. And, while
some seek to portray it as being a weak point when it comes to winning
popular support, the left’s involvement in the campaign against the
Iraq War proved one of its most effective campaigns in recent history
in terms of shaping public opinion. 

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MAY DAY ’25 PHOTOS
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Reuters

From Manila, Paris, Jakarta, Istanbul, Seoul, Dakar, Rome and more.

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PANAMA: WORKERS STRIKE FOR RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY
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_Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

A week since the indefinite strike began, several unions, guilds, and
Panamanian citizens continued to demonstrate against the right-wing
government of José Raúl Mulino. They are striking against the social
security reform law, which, according to the demonstrators, allows the
privatization of the social security system. The strike has taken on
an anti-imperialist and sovereigntist tone.

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ISRAELIS AND PALESTINE’S FREEDOM FIGHT
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_Fadi Shabita_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)

Just like young Palestinians did not choose to be born in the West
Bank, in Gaza, or in exile, young Israelis, some already the third or
fourth generation of colonial settlement, did not choose to be born
into this political reality. Nevertheless, they must choose how to
respond: Will they take part in it? Or will they choose to resist
it — and potentially at great personal cost?

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CUBA UP AGAINST IT
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_Gerold Schmidt_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

Cuba lacks the necessary funds for investing in vital sectors and
cannot obtain further loans due to US sanctions and its already high
levels of foreign debt. In the short term, the focus will have to be
on how the country’s economy can survive without overstretching the
population’s patience.

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ITALIAN UNIONS HIT AMAZON WHERE IT HURTS
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_Laura Montanari and Jonathan Rosenblum_ / Truthout (Sacramento)

On Good Friday, April 18, thousands of Amazon drivers went on strike
at the company’s 41 delivery stations throughout Italy, jamming up
goods delivery in the run-up to the busy Easter weekend. The one-day
strike was a show of strength, an escalation of worker demands for job
security, safer working conditions, and an end to crushing workloads
and relentless speedups.

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MYANMAR AND CHINA
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_Kyaw Htet Aung_ / The Diplomat (Arlington VA)

China sought to preserve the existing power imbalance between
Myanmar's military junta and the resistance, ensuring that no single
actor could gain enough strength to undermine China’s influence in
the region. Using a mix of diplomatic pressure and economic
incentives, China succeeded in securing the outcome it wanted.

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FROM THE EUROPEAN LEFT PARTY
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_Uwe Sattler_ / European Left (Brussels)

The top representatives of the four dozen left-wing and green-left
parties – variously affiliated with or linked to the Party of the
European Left – assessed: “authoritarian leaders such as Putin,
Trump, Netanyahu, and Erdoğan demonstrate through words and actions
that fascism is a present and acute danger.” This danger is further
driven by the EU’s rearmament and aggressive policies.

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TURKEY: ÖCALAN’S STRATEGY
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_Justus Johannsen and Tuncer Bakırhan_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

Abdullah Öcalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, made a
surprise call in February for the PKK to lay down its arms. Whether
there will be a just peace now depends on the willingness of
Turkey’s political parties to support the new settlement.

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WILFRED BURCHETT AND PORTUGAL’S BRIEF REVOLUTION
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_Daniela F. Melo_ / Verso (London)

In a style reminiscent of George Orwell’s journalistic output,
Burchett offers a mixture of reflection, analysis and intimate
interviews with important historical protagonists of the revolutionary
process in the capital, Lisbon, but also with average people in the
provinces – farmers, fishermen, factory workers. Of all the titles
in Burchett’s opus, these two books are the least known.

* May Day
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* Internationalism
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* Panama
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* national strike
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* Israel
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* Palestine
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* Cuba
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* Italy
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* Italian unions
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* Amazon
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* Myanmar
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* China
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* Turkey
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* Abdullah Öcalan
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* PKK
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* Wilfred Burchett
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* Portugal
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