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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — NOVEMBER 12, 2025
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November 12, 2025
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_ Our planet in the balance _
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan officially declared Kerala as free
from extreme poverty on November 1, 2025. , The Hindu
* The Threat to Cuba is Greater Than Ever
* How NGOs Undermined Myanmar Resistance
* COP30
* Women Organize in Sri Lanka
* UK Left in Turmoil
* Latin America Flashpoints
* Boris Kagarlitsky Speaks from Prison
* Odinga and the Kenyan Left
* Latvia: Protesters Demand an End to Gender Violence
* Kerala’s Victory Over Poverty
__________THE THREAT TO CUBA IS GREATER THAN EVER
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_Roberto Livi_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)
Cuba is in a full-blown systemic crisis. However, the island’s
government and political leadership are most worried because of
another danger: the unprecedented aggressiveness of the current Trump
administration (which includes not only the president himself but also
the anti-Castro and anti-Bolivarian obsession of Secretary of State
Marco Rubio and various Cuban-American hawks).
__________HOW NGOS UNDERMINED MYANMAR RESISTANCE
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_Mark Johnson_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
The Euro-Burma Office and other Western ‘peacebuilding’ NGOs have
fragmented Myanmar’s resistance movements through strategic EU and
US funding that imposed external frameworks on indigenous struggles.
Even well-intentioned solidarity can become complicit in imperial
power relations when mediated through Western institutional
structures, and funded by governments pursuing geopolitical interests.
__________COP30
• FIGHTING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN BELÉM
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_David Williams, Tetet Lauron and Katja Voigt _/ Rosa Luxemburg
Stiftung (Berlin)
• POWER SHIFT NEEDED
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_David Suzuki_ / David Suzuki Foundation (Vancouver)
• GLOBAL SOUTH TRADE UNION STATEMENT
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_58 trade unions internationally_
__________WOMEN ORGANIZE IN SRI LANKA
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_Kaushalya Ariyarathne_ / Polity (Colombo)
The _Gehenu Api Eka Mitata_ (‘Women, We Are One’) movement was
inaugurated by the Progressive Women’s Collective. It is because
this movement is the first of its kind in Sri Lanka that recording its
experiences, strategies, challenges, and early impacts becomes
essential. Such documentation captures a potentially transformative
moment and offers potential lessons for future efforts aimed at
enhancing gender equality.
__________UK LEFT IN TURMOIL
• IS THE LABOUR PARTY SPLITTING?
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_Steve Battlemuch_ / labourpainsandgains (Nottingham)
• DID YOUR PARTY DROP THE BALL?
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_Richard Seymour_ / New Statesman (London)
• GREENS IN WALES [[link removed]]
_Cemlyn Davies_ / BBC (London)
__________LATIN AMERICA FLASHPOINTS
• CHILE’S ELECTION
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_Torge Löding_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
• POLICE TERROR IN RIO FAVELA
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_Tom Phillips_ / The Guardian (London)
• MAS DEFEAT IN BOLIVIA AFTERMATH
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_Linda Farthing_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• DAY OF THE SALVADORAN TRADE UNIONIST
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_Devin B. Martinez_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
__________BORIS KAGARLITSKY SPEAKS FROM PRISON
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_Boris Kagalitsky and Andrey Rudoy_ / Links (Sydney)
[MODERATOR’S NOTE: On November 8, the administration of Penal Colony
No. 4 (IK-4) in Torzhok (Tver Region) sent Boris Kagarlitsky, an
opponent of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and editor-in-chief of the
internet platform _Rabkor_ to solitary confinement for at least three
days. The pretext for Kagarlitsky’s punishment is unknown, and at
the time of writing it is not clear if and when his period of solitary
confinment will end.]
__________ODINGA AND THE KENYAN LEFT
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_R.M. Anyona and Brian Mathenge_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
The death of Raila Odinga, Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader,
invites a reckoning—not only with his contradictions, but with what
his long struggle reveals about the unfinished work of liberation.
__________LATVIA: PROTESTERS DEMAND AN END TO GENDER VIOLENCE
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Meduza (Riga)
More than 10,000 people gathered in the Latvian capital to protest
a bill that would see the country exit the Istanbul Convention,
an international treaty aimed at combating violence against women.
The demonstration went ahead even after President Edgars Rinkēvičs
refused to the sign the bill. Meduza visited the demonstration and
asked participants why they decided to protest even after lawmakers
backed down.
__________KERALA’S VICTORY OVER POVERTY
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_Divya Pradeep_ / The Wire (New Delhi)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front
government announced that it had eliminated extreme poverty in Kerala.
The state government’s leadership and commitment to eliminating
extreme poverty are commendable, and whether the goal has actually
been achieved becomes less important. Still, it is worth examining how
this process was carried out and what its implications are.
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* Latin America
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* Bolivia
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* Boris Kagarlitsky
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* Kenya
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* Raila Odinga
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* Latvia
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* Gender Violence
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* Kerala
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