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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — JANUARY 21, 2026
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January 21, 2026
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_ The big picture _
A man sits on steps decorated with a mural representing the eyes of
late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan.
12, 2026. , Graphic by Truthdig; images via AP Photo, Adobe Stock
* Rojava Zero Hour
* Venezuela in Perspective
* Ghosh: Gangster Imperialism
* Blakeley: Off Comes the Mask
* Klare: Renewed Nuclear Threat
* The Left in the Iran Upsurge
* Review: Socialism Without Tears
* Taking Stock of Gen Z Movements
* Greenlanders and Danes Have an Opinion
* Vietnam’s Communists Congregate
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ROJAVA ZERO HOUR
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_Blade Runner_ / Freedom (London)
Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian state forces and Kurdish forces
have developed into a multi-front assault on Rojava, threatening open
war as a means of forcing it to integrate into an Islamist state
structure. Northeast Syria’s ruling Union Party (PYD) has called on
“Kurdistani forces to declare a general mobilisation,” warning
that “Kurds in Rojava face the threat of extermination.”
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VENEZUELA IN PERSPECTIVE
• GLOBAL MEANING
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I. Robinson_ / NACLA (New York)
• EPITAPH FOR A REVOLUTION?
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Bonilla-Molina_ / Links (Sydney)
• AFTER THE BOMBS
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_Jessica Dos Santos Jardin_ / Truthout (Santa Monica)
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GHOSH: GANGSTER IMPERIALISM
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_Jayati Ghosh_ / Orissa POST (Rasulgarh, India)
At the core of Trump’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine – the
“Donroe Doctrine” – lies the belief that the United States can
act with impunity within its self-defined “backyard,” and that
other major powers, particularly China, can do the same in theirs. At
the same time, the US reserves the right to advance its strategic
interests wherever it sees fit, including Greenland.
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BLAKELEY: OFF COMES THE MASK
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_Grace Blakeley_ / graceblakeley.substack.com (London)
Much fun has been poked at the idea of the liberal rules-based order.
Its alleged rules have been flouted so often, and so blatantly, by so
many of the states tasked with upholding it that defending it seems
fatuous. Nevertheless, this system has been critical to the
functioning of global capitalism — and its collapse will have
significant consequences.
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KLARE: RENEWED NUCLEAR THREAT
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_Michael Klare_ / TomDispatch (New York)
Beginning on Friday, February 6, 2026, the world’s two major
nuclear-weapons powers, Russia and the United States, will not be
bound by any arms-control treaties and so will be legally free to cram
their nuclear arsenals with as many new warheads as they wish — a
step both sides appear poised to take.
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THE LEFT IN THE IRAN UPSURGE
• COUNCIL OF THE LEFT
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_Siyâvash Shahabi_ / The Fire Next Time (Athens)
• SYNDICATE OF WORKERS OF TEHRAN AND SUBURBS BUS COMPANY
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/ Socialist Project (Toronto)
• WHO ARE THE OPPOSITION?
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_Sarah Shamim_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)
• REPORT FROM THE STREET [[link removed]]
/ Feminists for Jina
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REVIEW: SOCIALISM WITHOUT TEARS
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_Herman Rosenfeld_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
At a time of burgeoning anti-communism from both conservatives and
liberals, _Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the__ Future of
the Left_ is an accessible synthesis of the history of communism that
draws on the latest research to analyze the contradictions and uneasy
truths the left needs to confront if it is to build a genuinely
liberatory alternative to capitalism.
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TAKING STOCK OF GEN Z MOVEMENTS
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_Subhanjana Das_ / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
Indonesia. Madagascar. The Philippines. Morocco. Nepal. Tanzania.
Peru. Paraguay. Timor-leste. Maldives. Kenya. Countries with little
shared history or political context, yet all were engulfed at
different moments this year by the same force: street protests led
overwhelmingly by Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012. Youth
uprisings are not new, but these mark a distinct shift.
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GREENLANDERS AND DANES HAVE AN OPINION
• ONE BIG FU FROM THE FOLKS IN THE STREETS
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_Dmytro Hubenko_ / DW (Berlin)
• INUITS HIT BACK
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_Anna Caldwell_ / The Independent (London)
• LABOR LEADER WEIGHS IN
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_Michael Sainato_ / The Guardian (London)
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VIETNAM’S COMMUNISTS CONGREGATE
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_Nguyen Khac Giang_ / The Diplomat (Arlington VA)
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s 14th National Congress may
prove the most significant in a generation. Beyond determining who
commands Vietnamese politics until 2031, the Congress will reveal
whether the country’s single-party system can evolve to meet
contemporary demands, or whether it will ossify under a security
establishment that has never wielded greater influence.
* Rojava
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* Kurds
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* Syria
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* Venezuela
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* imperialism
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* Donroe Doctrine
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* Global Capitalism
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* nuclear weapons
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* Iran
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* Iranian left
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* Council of the Left
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* Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company
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* Reza Pahlavi
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* Maryam Rajavi
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* Feminists for Jina
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* socialism
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* Communism
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* the Left
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* gen z
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* Protest
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* Greenland
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* Denmark
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* Inuits
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* Jess Berthelsen
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* Vietnam
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* Vietnam Communist Party
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* To Lam
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