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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — FEBRUARY 4, 2026
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February 4, 2026
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_ Living in the light and shadow of Stalingrad _
After the 1942 bombing of Stalingrad, a fountain remains depicting
children dancing around a crocodile., Emmanuil Yevzerikhin
* For the Life and Dignity of the People of Iran
* Stormfront Mexico
* Rojava: Responding to the Emergency
* Kenya’s Disability and Labor Movements are Uniting
* Palestine News
* 50k Out to Defend Left Cultural Center in Turin
* Perspectives on Sri Lanka’s Left Government
* Bolivia is Not for Sale
* Nationalism, Populism and the Left
* The Historical Force of Stalingrad
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FOR THE LIFE AND DIGNITY OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN
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_Zapatista Army of National Liberation et al._ / Enlace Zapatista
There are those who, from the outside, look upwards and not downwards:
those who justify the Iranian regime in the name of a supposed
anti-imperialism, ignoring that this same regime applies logics of
occupation, apartheid, plunder and neoliberalism against its people;
and those who promote reactionary, authoritarian and dependent
alternatives.
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STORMFRONT MEXICO
• THOUSANDS OPPOSE “DONROE DOCTRINE”
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_Tamara Pearson_ / Truthout (Sacramento)
• OIL, TRUMP, CUBA
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_Megan Messerly_ / Politico (Washington DC)
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ROJAVA: RESPONDING TO THE EMERGENCY
• A POLITICAL ASSESSMENT
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_Ali Cicek_ / Academy of Political Modernity (Carouge,
Switzerland)
• THE LONG ROAD AHEAD
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_Eve Morris-Gray_ / The Amargi (Leipzig)
• CALL FOR SOLIDARITY
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Defend Rojava_ / RiseUp4Rojava
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KENYA’S DISABILITY AND LABOR MOVEMENTS ARE UNITING
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_Joe Buckley and Moses Chege_ / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) and the United
Disabled Persons of Kenya (UDPK), the umbrella organisation of people
with disabilities in Kenya, have been united in the fight for decent
work since 2021. Agriculture and the informal economy are where UDPK
and COTU have been focusing their organising efforts.
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PALESTINE NEWS
• RETURN OF THE JOINT LIST
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_Abed Abou Shhadeh_ / +972 (Tel Aviv)
• GAZANS CONDEMN “NEW GAZA”
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_Noor Alyacoubi_ / Palestine Chronicle
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50K OUT TO DEFEND LEFT CULTURAL CENTER IN TURIN
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_Thymo Nzk_ / Freedom (London)
More than 50,000 people from across Italy marched through the streets
of Turin on Saturday (31 January) in a national demonstration
following the eviction of the long-standing social centre Askatasuna
on 18 December. The protest brought together a wide range of
movements, including housing rights groups, student collectives from
high schools and universities, and trade-union activists.
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PERSPECTIVES ON SRI LANKA’S LEFT GOVERNMENT
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_Mark Johnson_ / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
One year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s historic election victory,
assessments of Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power government
reveal both convergence and sharp disagreement among left and
progressive analysts. The NPP’s September 2024 presidential win and
November parliamentary landslide—securing 159 of 225
seats—represented the first left-led government in Sri Lankan
history.
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BOLIVIA IS NOT FOR SALE
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_Gabriel Rodríguez Garcia_ / NACLA (New York)
Bolivia’s cities and highways are witnessing another wave of mass
demonstrations, roadblocks, hunger strikes, and assemblies. Once
again, state policy was overturned by street politics, popular
mandates, and vetoes. After the president's decree reoriented economic
policy toward neoliberalism, 24 days of protests forced the government
to back down.
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NATIONALISM, POPULISM AND THE LEFT
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_Théo Aiolfi and Thomás Zicman de Barros_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Left populists across Europe have sometimes dampened their
internationalism in an effort to reach broader audiences. This has
produced little in the way of electoral success and often meant giving
up a necessary fight against xenophobia.
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THE HISTORICAL FORCE OF STALINGRAD
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_Tunç Türel_ / MRonline (New York)
Stalingrad marked the moment when the Nazi war machine ceased to
advance and began, irreversibly, to bleed. The German offensive toward
the Volga in the summer of 1942 was intended to secure oil resources,
sever Soviet transport routes, and deliver a symbolic blow to the
heart of the Soviet state. Instead, a protracted urban battle
nullified Germany’s operational advantages.
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* Disabled
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* Askatasuna
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* Sri Lanka
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* Anura Kumara Dissanayake
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* Bolivia
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