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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — OCTOBER 22, 2025
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October 22, 2025
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_ Reanimating the heart of democracy _
, Indymedia Scotland
* Mobilizing the Anti-Racist Majority in UK
* Unprecedented Wave of Outrage
* Free Marwan Barghouti!
* Lula’s Unfinished Democracy
* Xi and Feminism in China
* Repoliticizing Burkina Faso
* Euro Strikes Make History
* Pacific Islanders and the Climate Crisis
* Polarized Venezuelans Face War Threat
* The Lost History of Antifa
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MOBILIZING THE ANTI-RACIST MAJORITY IN UK
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_Chris Webb_ / Tribune (London)
After the largest far-right protest in British history, the labour
movement must abandon its complacency — and begin organising with
football fans and community groups to stub out the politics of hatred
and despair. The unions have outsourced their anti-racist strategy for
years, and with nothing tangible to show for it.
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UNPRECEDENTED WAVE OF OUTRAGE
• MOROCCO
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Bollenot and Charif Elalaoui_ / Europe Solidaire Sans
Frontières (Paris)
• NEPAL
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_Sushovan Dhar_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
• PERU
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_Ben Radford_ / Green Left (Sydney)
• PHILIPPINES
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_Herbert Docena_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
• ECUADOR
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_Manuela Picq_ / NACLA Report (New York)
• KASHMIR
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_Haris Qadeer_ / Alternative Viewpoint
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FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI!
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_Daniel Tester_ / Middle East Eye (London)
Marwan Barghouti rose to prominence as a top Fatah official and is
Israel’s most high-profile prisoner. Barghouti is the most popular
Palestinian politician, according to opinion polls, and is regarded as
being able to command unity across Palestinian society. But he has
been imprisoned in Israel since 2002, serving five life sentences
for his alleged role in murders during the Second Intifada.
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LULA’S UNFINISHED DEMOCRACY
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_Andre Pagliarini_ / Dissent (New York)
Over four decades, President da Silva’s long-standing commitment to
popular sovereignty has remained constant, even as the political
terrain around him has changed. He no longer seems certain that
democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Instead, he argues
that fighting inequality is democracy’s animating mission.
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XI AND FEMINISM IN CHINA
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_Amy Hawkins_ / The Guardian (London)
At the global women’s summit to mark the 30th anniversary of
the historic UN’s world conference on women, which took place in
Beijing, Xi Jinping praised the “historic achievements” of
women’s rights in China. But while Xi hailed a “glorious chapter
of women’s progress”, in recent years, Chinese feminists have
found it increasingly difficult to advocate for, or even speak about,
women’s rights.
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REPOLITICIZING BURKINA FASO
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_Aziz Salmone Fall_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
Thomas Sankara’s brief but transformative presidency (1983–1987)
reoriented Burkina Faso’s political economy. Thirty-eight years
after Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and
self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled
verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century
anti-imperialist front.
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EURO STRIKES MAKE HISTORY
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_Gabrielle Nadler_ / France 24 (Paris)
• SPAIN
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• ITALY
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_Tasnima Uddin_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• BELGIUM
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Alaluf_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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PACIFIC ISLANDERS AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
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_Edward Hunt_ / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)
The leaders of the Pacific Islands are forging a united front against
President Donald Trump’s climate denialism and leading the world in
the battle against the climate crisis. The leaders of the Pacific
Islands responded by refuting his falsehoods, identifying the
existential threats to their homelands, and urging the international
community to fulfill its legal obligations to act.
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POLARIZED VENEZUELANS FACE WAR THREAT
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_Steve Ellner_ / Links (Sydney)
In Venezuela, one bloc of the opposition consists of leaders who, from
the outset, have been vehemently anti-Hugo Chávez and anti-Nicolás
Maduro, but are now distancing themselves from Washington. They find
themselves at odds with the pro-Washington bloc, aligned with Trump on
everything from immigration to regime change by any means possible.
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THE LOST HISTORY OF ANTIFA
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_Loren Balhorn_ / Jacobin
This 2017 essay describes the European roots of the movement and brand
that has dogged fascism since 1932. During a period of bitter rivalry
among left parties, Antifa presented the possibility of a united
front.
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* Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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* Xi Jinping
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* Thomas Sankara
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* Europe
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* Pacific Islanders
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* Climate
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