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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JULY 23, 2025  
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July 23, 2025
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_ Wins, losses and deep thoughts _

End the Blockade. In solidarity with the people of Cuba and Nicaragua
in their heroic struggle - July 19 and 26 [screenprint poster].
Credit, Malaquias Montoya.

 

* Changes in Capitalism: A South African View
* Left Summit in Indonesia
* Greece: Another Europe Wasn’t Possible
* A Saga of Peasant Resistance in India
* Postal Workers Strike in Canada
* Portuguese Left Bloc Leader on German _Linke_
* Panama Fights for Freedom
* Russian Political Prisoners’ Appeal
* Antimilitarism in Oz
* An Overview of Left Politics in Ukraine

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CHANGES IN CAPITALISM: A SOUTH AFRICAN VIEW
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_Zaki Mamdoo_ / Amandla! (Cape Town)

The colonial and apartheid labour regimes in South Africa created a
racialised and gendered reserve army of cheap black labour, used and
discarded at will. Post-apartheid, that structure has not been
dismantled. It has simply been brought under new
management. Importantly, however, as capitalism evolves into its
current parasitic and crisis-ridden stage, the terrain of accumulation
has shifted.

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LEFT SUMMIT IN INDONESIA
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_Arah Juang_ / Indoleft

On March 23 a fast breaking gathering and discussion was held on
“The International and National Situation”. The event was
initiated by the Socialist Union (_Perserikatan Sosialis_, PS) and
the People’s Liberation Party (_Partai Pembebasan Rakyat_, PPR).
The PS and PPR recognise the need for a space where left-wing
organisations and groups can meet, discuss and debate a wide range of
issues.

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GREECE: ANOTHER EUROPE WASN’T POSSIBLE
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_Boris Kanzleiter_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

What options and alternatives were actually available to the Greek
Left in the summer of 2015 calls for a proper historicization. The
Troika’s austerity brutally halted the upsurge of protest movements
and mercilessly enforced the logic of capital utilization and
budgetary discipline. Now, the debt brake is being suspended to
facilitate increased military spending. 

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A SAGA OF PEASANT RESISTANCE IN INDIA
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

A nearly 1,200 days-long resistance by farmers forced the government
of the south Indian state of Karnataka to retreat from their plan to
grab 1,777 acres of fertile, multi-cropped farmland across 13
villages. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah acknowledged that “writers,
artists, communist party, people’s movements” and the oppressed
Dalit castes had all struggled alongside the resisting farmers.

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POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE IN CANADA
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_André Frappier_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is on the front lines of a
critical struggle. In the face of the Carney government’s aggressive
actions, we cannot allow the union to stand alone. It’s up to us to
organize and support actions and demonstrations to create a united
front across Canada and Québec that can defeat the anti-labour
offensive.

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PORTUGUESE LEFT BLOC LEADER ON GERMAN _LINKE_
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_Catarina Martins_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

Catarina Martins, MEP and former coordinator of Portugal’s _Bloco de
Esquerda_ (Left Bloc, a radical left party that emerged from
Trotskyist and Maoist traditions in 1999) examines the recent
trajectory of Germany’s _Die Linke_ (The Left), drawing lessons for
Portugal’s own political landscape. 

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PANAMA FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM
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_Owen Schalk_ / NACLA Report (New York)

Since early 2025, Panamanian social movements have mobilized to
protest the neoliberal economic agenda and pro-U.S. foreign policy of
their president, José Raúl Mulino. Panama’s authorities have
responded by arresting thousands, killing several protestors, and in
the Bocas del Toro province, suspending constitutional rights like
freedom of assembly and arrest warrants.

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RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS’ APPEAL
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_Mark Trevelyan_ / Reuters (London)

Eleven jailed Russian dissidents have written to world leaders
appealing for a mass release of Russian political prisoners
and Ukrainian civilians held by Russia - some 10,000 people in total,
they say - as part of any peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. The
dissidents said that thousands of Ukrainian civilian "hostages" were
being held by Russia, mostly in Russian-held areas of Ukraine.

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ANTIMILITARISM IN OZ
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_Alexander Brown_ / Links (Sydney)

The anti-windfarm campaign showed how a fragmented and intensely
atomised proletariat could be manipulated to support right-wing
populism. Nevertheless, solidarity with Palestinians has broadened
Wollongong’s anti-militarist movement beyond the more traditional
red-green alliance.

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AN OVERVIEW OF LEFT POLITICS IN UKRAINE
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_Juliane Nagel_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

Ukraine’s small but determined left-wing movements continue
organising for workers’ rights, healthcare reform, and social
justice under extraordinary circumstances. From trade unions operating
under martial law to queer-feminist collectives challenging
militarisation, these voices offer crucial insights for European
leftists.

* South Africa
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* capitalism
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* youth
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* Indonesia
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* Perserikatan Sosialis
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* Partai Pembebasan Rakyat
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* Greece
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* Troika
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* India
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* Karnataka
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* Farmers
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* CUPW
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* Canada
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* canadian postal workers
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* Portugal
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* Left Bloc
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* Die Linke
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* Panama
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* Russia
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* Political Prisoners
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* Australia
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* antimilitarism
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* Ukraine
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* Ukrainian left
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* Germany
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