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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MASS ACTION IN WORLD CENTERS
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December 7, 2022
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_ Many causes, multiple protests and strikes, one world _
Athens: 'They shot them because they were Roma'. Credit, Michael
Varaklas/AP
* Iran: The Tipping Point
* China Citizens Are Furious
* UK: Happy Xmas and To All a Good Strike
* South Korean Teamsters
* Confronting Amazon in Japan
* Brazil: Generational Formation in Troubled Waters
* Tunisia: Union Resistance to New Regime
* Greece: Protest Over Police Shooting of Roma Youth
* Negotiation vs Resistance in Sudan
* Re-connect the Left!
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IRAN: THE TIPPING POINT
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_Lou Romeo_ / France 24 (Paris)
As the protest movement in Iran continues to grow in intensity
following fresh calls for another three-day strike, the prosecutor
general made the surprise announcement that the country’s morality
police, the group responsible for the death of Mahsa Amini, had been
abolished. The declaration was initially seen as a retreat by the
regime but has done little to pacify dissent.
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CHINA CITIZENS ARE FURIOUS
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HOW NOT TO READ THE PROTESTS
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_Christian Sorace And Nicholas Loubere_ / Made in China
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UYGHURS AND THE UPSURGE
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Lausan (Hong Kong)
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BLANK SHEETS OF PAPER
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_Alec Ash_ / London Review of Books
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UK: HAPPY XMAS AND TO ALL A GOOD STRIKE
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_Ethan Evans_ / ManchesterWorld
Railway staff from The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport
(RMT) recently confirmed additional strike dates over the festive
season. It joins a growing list of professions that will walk out
over the course of the month and in some cases into 2023. Including
NHS nurses, ambulance personnel, Royal Mail postal workers, bus
drivers and many more.
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SOUTH KOREAN TRUCKERS
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_Anish R_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Trade unions in South Korea staged a massive march to the National
Assembly in Seoul to protest against strike-busting by the
conservative government. The protest march was organized by the
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of the largest trade
union confederations in the country, to coincide with the completion
of 10 days of a nationwide truckers’ strike.
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CONFRONTING AMAZON IN JAPAN
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_Chie Matsumoto_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japan’s practices
that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery
volume and speed. They are now organising unions to take on Amazon.
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BRAZIL: GENERATIONAL FORMATION IN TROUBLED WATERS
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_GiovannaI Henrique Marcelino_ / New Left Review (London)
There is a promising intersection of militant and intellectual
activity in contemporary Brazil. Its practitioners are not just
‘radicals of occasion’, but members of the subaltern classes as
well.
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TUNISIA: UNION RESISTANCE TO NEW REGIME
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Al Jazeera (Doha)
“We no longer accept the current path because of its ambiguity and
individual rule, and the unpleasant surprises it hides for the fate of
the country and democracy,” Noureddine Taboubi, leader of the
Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), said in a speech to thousands of
supporters on Saturday.
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GREECE: PROTEST OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF ROMA YOUTH
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_Costas Kantouris_ / Associated Press (New York)
Violent protests broke out in Greece’s second-largest city over the
police shooting Monday of a Roma teenager. About 1,500 people took
part in a protest march organized by left-wing and anarchist groups in
central Thessaloniki on Monday night. Some smashed shops and threw
Molotov cocktails at police, who responded with tear gas and stun
grenades.
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NEGOTIATION VS RESISTANCE IN SUDAN
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Dabanga (Khartoum)
The Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) confirmed
on Sunday that it has agreed to sign the first phase of a political
framework agreement at the Republican Palace in Khartoum, while
demonstrations against the deal are set to take place in the Sudanese
capital.
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RECONNECT THE LEFT!
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_Federico Fuentes and Pablo Stefanoni_ / Links (Sydney)
Pablo Stefanoni is editor of the progressive Latin American
magazine _Nueva Sociedad_, associate researcher at Fundación
Carolina (Spain) and author of _La rebeldía se volvió de
derechas?_ (Has Rebellion Become a Thing of the Right?).
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