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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JUNE 4, 2025
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_ The shadow of war spreads _
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o dealt with the legacy of colonialism through
essays, plays and novels. Credit, Mark Boster/LA Times/Getty Images
* Analysis: Militarism in Europe
* The Memory of 1945
* Panama Strike in Second Month
* The Women Who Brought Down a President
* News from Kerala
* Tracking the Canadian Left
* Dialogue on Neofascism
* Malaysian Socialists’ Letter to ASEAN
* Greek Parties’ Joint Call to Save Palestinians
* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1938-2025
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ANALYSIS: MILITARISM IN EUROPE
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_Cornelia Hildebrandt_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
The White Paper adopted on 12 March 2025 by the European
Parliament essentially involves the development of an EU defence
industry for any necessary warfare, to secure resources, to generate
society’s combat readiness and resilience, and a strategic plan to
develop mobility for the moment ‘of the most extreme military
eventualities’, that is, war.
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THE MEMORY OF 1945
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_Mischa Gabowitsch_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The future of remembrance of World War II in the post-Soviet world
remains uncertain. Russia’s attempts to lay claim to the only
correct way to honour the memory of the war will have little success
because corresponding memorials and commemorative rituals also play an
important — locally distinct — social role in Ukraine and
several other successor states to the Soviet Union.
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PANAMA STRIKE IN SECOND MONTH
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_Pablo Meriguet_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
For several weeks now, across Panama, unionized workers, students,
Indigenous communities, teachers, health professionals, agricultural
workers, and others have been on strike against the neoliberal
policies of the right-wing government of José Raúl Mulino. The
workers have remained on the streets, braving violent police
repression.
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THE WOMEN WHO BROUGHT DOWN A PRESIDENT
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_Yvette Tan and Suhnwook Lee_ / BBC (London)
On December 3, 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared
martial law. Within hours, thousands had spurred into protest,
especially young women. They turned up not just because Yoon's
decision had alarmed and angered them, but to protest against a
president who insisted South Korea was free of sexism — despite
the deep discrimination that said otherwise.
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TRACKING THE CANADIAN LEFT
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_Matt McManus_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
The NDP got shellacked, reduced down to seven seats, with Jagmeet
Singh losing in his own riding (he has since resigned from his post as
leader). This significant setback for Canada’s social democratic
party can’t only be blamed on Trump and the agglomeration of votes
to the Liberals and Conservatives. Indeed, it should also be pinned on
the party’s leadership.
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NEWS FROM KERALA
• WOMEN HEALTH WORKERS ORGANIZE
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_Shradha_ / Global Voices (The Hague)
• ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY
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DIALOGUE ON NEOFASCISM
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_Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar_ / Posle (Berlin)
We have seen the emergence of a powerful global neofascist axis, which
goes from Trump to Netanyahu in Israel, Milei in Argentina, Orban in
Hungary, Meloni to a point (and she has the very clearly neofascist
Salvini in her government), Modi in India, Erdogan in Turkey,
etc. How long it will go on is difficult to predict.
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MALAYSIAN SOCIALISTS’ LETTER TO ASEAN
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_Jeyakumar Devaraj_ / Think Left (Kuala Lumpur)
For the past 5 decades, countries in ASEAN have followed the advice of
the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO to rely on foreign investment
(FDI) to drive the construction of manufacturing industries and rely
on the markets of rich countries in Europe and North America for goods
created by factories in ASEAN. This development model cannot
continue.
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GREEK PARTIES’ JOINT CALL TO SAVE PALESTINIANS
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_Tasos Kokkinidis_ / Greek Reporter (Los Angeles)
The leaders of Greece’s four left-wing opposition parties signed a
joint statement, concerning the tragic plight of the Palestinian
people in Gaza. Following an initiative launched by the Communist
Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the
statement was co-signed by leaders of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance,
New Left, and Plefsi Eleftherias.
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NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O 1938-2025
• LIFE
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• QUOTATIONS
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_Adrian Horton_ / The Guardian (London)
* Europe
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* 2025 White Paper for European Defence
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* World War II
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* Panama
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* national strike
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* South Korea
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* Women
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* Yoon Suk Yeol
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* Canada
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* New Democratic Party
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* Kerala
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* India
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* health workers
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* poverty
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* neofascism
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* Ilya Budraitskis
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* Gilbert Achcar
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* Parti Sosialis Malaysia
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* Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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* Greece
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* Left in Greece
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* Palestine
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* Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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