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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — NOVEMBER 19, 2025  
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November 19, 2025
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_ Dusk or dawn for climate justice? _

Outside COP30 conference, demonstrators paraded three coffins marked
with the words 'coal,' 'oil' and 'gas.', Image: Andre Penner/AP
Photo/picture alliance

 

* Militarism and the Climate Crisis
* Climate Justice Frontlines
* The Stakes Are Rising in Latin America
* Education in Vietnam
* Ending Incarceration of Women Around the World
* Sahel, Africa Juntas: Empty Threat to Imperialism
* Western Sahara vs Morocco
* Ukraine: Movement for Rights in the War Against Russian Invasion
* Iran Oil Workers Strike
* Finland: Minja Koskela on Fighting the Right

__________MILITARISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
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_Patrick Bigger _/ Socialist Project (Toronto)

Right now, three categories of systemic militarized violence – for
fossil fuels, energy transition resource extraction, and for punishing
resistance and even survival – are all on the rise; resisting and
bucking those trends will be imperative for genuine human security as
the ecological crisis intensifies.

__________CLIMATE JUSTICE FRONTLINES

 • COP30 PROTESTS
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  _Sean Sinico_ / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

 • SÃO PAULO: LETTER FROM THE PERIPHERIES
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  _Agência Mural_ / Global Voices (The Hague)

 • CLIMATE AND GENDER JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM BANGLADESH
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  _Meghna Guhathakurta and Vinod Koshti_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
(Berlin)

 • TUNISIA: WE WANT TO BREATHE
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  _Dhouha Djerbi_ / MERIP (Ardmore PA) 

__________THE STAKES ARE RISING IN LATIN AMERICA

 • TRUMP LIGHTS A FIRE
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Steve Ellner_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

•  CHILEAN COMMUNIST FACES RUNOFF
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  _Charlie Ebert_ / Novara Media (London)

•  ECUADORIAN VOTERS TURN ON NOBUA
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Becker_ / NACLA (New York)

•  YOUTH ON THE MOVE IN PERU
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  _Victoria Valenzuela_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn) 

__________EDUCATION IN VIETNAM
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_Nicole Fernandez_ / The Borgen Project (Tacoma)

Vietnam transformed from one of Southeast Asia’s most underserved,
war-torn nations in the early ’90s into a global model for poverty
reduction. This transformation did not happen overnight. The strongest
pillar in Vietnam’s poverty reduction is the expansion of access to
education throughout the country, reaching even the most remote
regions of Vietnam.

__________ENDING INCARCERATION OF WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD
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_James Kilgore_ / Truthout (Sacramento)

The International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women (INFIW) is
the product of years of grassroots organizing across the globe —
efforts that culminated in a 2023 convening in Bogota, Colombia, where
60 women from 17 countries met to share strategies on halting the
massive population increase in women’s prisons and jails around the
world. Now, in 2025, the collaboration has grown to represent women
from 33 different countries.

__________SAHEL, AFRICA JUNTAS: EMPTY THREAT TO IMPERIALISM
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_Joshua Shangobiyi_ / Red Pepper (London)

Over the past five years, the Sahel has been reshaped by a series of
military coups justified by promises to overhaul oppressive
neocolonial systems. Each junta promised freedom, a new focus on
development, and protection. But the strongmen leading Mali, Burkina
Faso and Niger are, similarly and in their own way, using
anti-imperialist rhetoric to mask new oppressions.

__________WESTERN SAHARA VS MOROCCO
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

The US, UK, and Europe, especially France, are bringing ever more
pressure on the international community to legitimize the illegal
occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, which in turn is handing over
the occupied resources for Western countries to loot. The Sahrawi
People’s Liberation Army of the Polisario Front has been launching
daily attacks on the occupation forces from the liberated territory in
the east. 

__________UKRAINE: MOVEMENT FOR RIGHTS IN THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIAN
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_Adam Novak_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

For nearly four years, Ukrainian defenders have fought not only
Russian imperialism but also their own state’s failures in
mobilisation, welfare, and accountability. Yet precisely through these
struggles, Ukraine’s military culture demonstrates something
authoritarian armies cannot replicate: democratic organising
strengthens rather than weakens combat effectiveness.

__________IRAN OIL WORKERS STRIKE
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_Murtaza Hussain_ / Drop Site (Washington DC)

Fifteen thousand workers went on strike at a major gas field in Iran,
demanding improved wages and working conditions at the economically
critical South Pars field. Despite a general climate of political
repression inside Iran, labor activism has grown in recent years. Oil
and gas workers have launched strikes in several different provinces.

__________FINLAND: MINJA KOSKELA ON FIGHTING THE RIGHT
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_Mike Watson and Minja Koskela_ / Jacobin

The leader of Finland’s Left Alliance spoke about how the
right-wing-populist Finns Party is using its place in government to
attack labor and public services, and how her party is resisting
austerian dogmas. “We must show that voting for the Left will make
your life better. We need to break free from the cynicism and distrust
and outright hate that’s taken over and build something positive
together.” 

* Latin America
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* Donald Trump
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* Climate
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* climate justice
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* Militarism
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* COP30
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* Protest
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* São Paulo
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* Gender
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* Bangladesh
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* Tunisia
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* Vietnam
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* Education
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* International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women
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* Africa
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* Sahel
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* Mali
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* Burkina Faso
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* Niger
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* Ecuador
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* Western Sahara
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* Polisario
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* Morocco
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* Ukraine
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* Iran
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* oil workers
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* strike
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* Finland
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* Finland Left Alliance
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* Minja Koskela
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* Chile
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* Jeannette Jara
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* Peru
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* gen z
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