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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — DECEMBER 31, 2025  
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December 31, 2025
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_ Women’s past, feminist futures — and a present _

, See Red Women's Workshop, UK, 1974-1990

 

* Confronting Femicide in Brazil
* Sri Lanka’s Left Feminism
* UK’s Largest Union Moves Left
* Feminism in China
* Women’s Russia
* South Africa: The G20 Shutdown
* Mexico: Unions Join with Sheinbaum
* Peace for Sudan Platform
* People’s Health Movement on Gender Justice
* A Present: Grace Blakeley on the World Economy and Stuff

 

 

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CONFRONTING FEMICIDE IN BRAZIL
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_Karin Schmalz_ / Fair Observer (Mountain View CA)

On December 7, thousands of Brazilians marched to protest femicide and
violence against women. Far-right populism, Bolsonarism,
neo-Pentecostal movements and online hate speech, which can receive
explicit political support, perpetuate the struggles women and
minorities face.

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SRI LANKA’S LEFT FEMINISM
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_Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah_ / Polity (Colombo)

In Sri Lanka, a left feminist space of activism and mobilisation took
shape from the _Aragalaya_/_Porattam_/Struggle of 2022 to electoral
politics. It is too soon to parse the meaning of these developments
for left feminist struggles—not only in relation to women, labour,
and the economy, but also in relation to broader struggles.

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UK’S LARGEST UNION MOVES LEFT
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_John Tranter and Lou Woods_ / Tribune (London)

Andrea Egan’s victory in Unison’s leadership election is a win for
millions of workers whose lives have played second fiddle to
Labour’s right-wing careerists for too long — and could lead to a
revival of British trade unionism.

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FEMINISM IN CHINA
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_Ralf Ruckus and Yige Dong_ / Spectre (New York)

For the past fifteen years, there has been a refreshing upsurge of
Chinese feminism which has attracted global allies. It is mainly
driven by relatively young, well educated and tech savvy Chinese women
with some degree of English speaking skills. They have already caused
profound changes in popular culture. 

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WOMEN’S RUSSIA
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_Pushkin House_ / The Moscow Times

Julia Ioffe’s debut book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of
Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy,” tells the story of
Russia through its women: from Julia’s physician great-grandmothers
to feminist revolutionaries, from the single mothers who rebuilt the
postwar U.S.S.R. to the members of Pussy Riot.

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SOUTH AFRICA: THE G20 SHUTDOWN
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UN Women

As South Africa enters the 16 Days of Activism, the 21 November
protests have set a powerful precedent, demonstrating that a new
generation refuses to accept violence against women as inevitable,
demanding that extraordinary measures match the extraordinary scale of
the crisis.

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MEXICO: UNIONS JOIN WITH SHEINBAUM
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_Dulce Olvera_ / Mexico Solidarity Media (Mexico City)

Union leaders from the National Union of Education Workers, Mexican
Petroleum Workers Union, the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers
and Peasants, and the Railway Workers Union have switched allegiance
from the PRI to the government project of the MORENA party and
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

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PEACE FOR SUDAN PLATFORM
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_Sonia D’Addario_ / Organization for World Peace (Toronto)

For two years, Sudan has been facing brutal conflict between the
Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The
Peace for Sudan Platform, uniting 49 women-led organizations, has
demanded 50 percent representation in all governance and humanitarian
efforts. The international community continues to exclude those trying
to build peace.

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PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT ON GENDER JUSTICE
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_Claudio Schuftan_ / MEER (Budva, Montenegro)

Discrimination against women and girls is not only a flagrant
violation of human rights and a negation of democracy, but it is also
crippling in terms of economics. This is doubly important because
sustained gender discrimination shackles any economy. In other words,
upholding women’s rights helps an economy to thrive.

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A PRESENT: GRACE BLAKELEY ON THE WORLD ECONOMY AND STUFF
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_Grace Blakeley_ is one of the fiercest anti-capitalist advocates of
her generation. She’s an English economist, political commentator,
and journalist. Join Blakeley and the Australia Institute’s co-CEO
Richard Denniss in this video conversation about the need for a
transformative movement to address inequalities within capitalism.

* Women
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* Feminism
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* Brazil
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* Protest
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* Femicide
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* Sri Lanka
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* UK
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* unison
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* Andrea Egan
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* unions
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* China
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* Russia
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* Julia Ioffe
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* South Africa
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* G20
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* Mexico
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* Claudia Sheinbaum
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* Morena
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* Sudan
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* Peace for Sudan Platform
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* People's Health Movement
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* gender justice
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* Grace Blakeley
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