[Workers vs neoliberalism — its happening everywhere]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 21, 2022
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December 21, 2022
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_ Workers vs neoliberalism — it's happening everywhere _
Garment workers in Bangladesh take part in a "Make Amazon Pay"
demonstration on November 25, 2022. Credit, UNI Global Union/Twitter
* Upsurge: The Wages of Neoliberalism
* Peru Explodes
* Palestine: The Nakba Day Triumph
* Focus on ANC
* China Between Imperialism and Draconian Rule
* ALBA-TCP Leaders Speak
* South Korean Women Stand Up for Gender Equality
* Italian Peace Movement Debates Ukraine War
* Swaziland Transport Workers Strike
* Audio: Pro Revolution Soccer
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UPSURGE: THE WAGES OF NEOLIBERALISM
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_Prabhat Patnaik_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)
The availability of huge amounts of liquidity at very low-interest
rates greatly reduces the risks for corporates associated with jacking
up their profit margins. American corporations jacked up their margins
at the first opportunity, precipitating the current inflation. It is
this direct assault on their living standards that workers everywhere
are vehemently protesting against.
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TWO TAKES ON PERUVIAN EXPLOSION
* PERU IN FLAMES [[link removed]] _Alberto
Gálvez Olaechea_ / New Politics (New York)
* ESCALATING CRISIS
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_Alejandra Dinegro Martínez_ / NACLA Report (New York)
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PALESTINE: THE NAKBA DAY TRIUMPH
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_Ramzy Baroud_ / Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace WA)
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the UN General
Assembly. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution
is significant, if not a game changer. Thanks to ordinary
Palestinians, those who have held on to the keys and deeds to their
original homes and land in historic Palestine, history is finally
being rewritten, back to its original and accurate form.
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FOCUS ON ANC
* RAMAPHOSA’S NARROW VICTORY
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_Stephen Grootes_ / Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
* DOWNWARD SPIRAL
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_Rebone Tau_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
* THE MAIN ISSUE
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_Raymond Suttner_ / Daily Maverick
* MARIKANA + 10
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_Joseph Mullen_ / Review of African Political Economy (London)
* NO SHORTCUTS
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_Niall Reddy_ / Africa is a Country (New York)
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CHINA BETWEEN IMPERIALISM AND DRACONIAN RULE
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_Daniel Falcone_ / Truthout (Sacramento)
Rebecca E. Karl, a scholar of modern China at New York University,
explains the events around the recent fire in Urumqi, the second
largest city in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang, and the
middle-class reaction to the strident and rigid COVID policies
authorized by the state.
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ALBA-TCP LEADERS SPEAK [[link removed]]
_Translated by Walter Lippmann_ / CubaNews (Los Angeles)
Representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) gathered in Havana,
where the left government bloc’s 18th anniversary was commemorated
at the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of
People's Power, Cuba’s parliament.
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SOUTH KOREAN WOMEN STAND UP FOR GENDER EQUALITY
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_Jean Mackenzie_ / BBC News (London)
President Yoon scrapped government gender quotas, declaring people
would be hired on merit, not sex. He is now trying to abolish the
government's Gender Equality Ministry, which supports women and
victims of sexual assault, claiming it is obsolete. More than 800
organisations have come together to protest against the closure,
arguing it could have a damaging impact on women's lives.
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ITALIAN PEACE MOVEMENT DEBATES UKRAINE WAR
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_Dick Nichols_ / Green Left (Sydney)
At the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network-organised “Europe for
Peace” in Rome, the biggest anti-war march in Italy for a decade,
a clear majority of progressives and anti-war activists reject their
governments’ call for a ‘rules-based order’ and an expanded
NATO, and oppose further weapons shipments to Ukraine.
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SWAZILAND TRANSPORT WORKERS STRIKE
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Swaziland’s Deputy PM Themba Masuku has threatened to imprison
Sticks Nkambule, the leader of transport workers’ union whose
members withdrew labor and brought Swaziland to a halt on December
13-14.
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AUDIO: PRO REVOLUTION SOCCER
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_Chal Ravens_ / Novara Media (London)
Tom Williams and Keir Milburn wonder about the future of international
football and ask the most important question of all: what is to be
done? David Wearing explains how brands, broadcasters and western
powers all benefit from “the violence inherent in the system” and
puts forward his vision of football as a force for good.
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* Neoliberalism
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* Workers Fightback
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* Peru
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* Peru Libre
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* Pedro Castillo
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* Dina Boluarte
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* Palestine
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* Nakba
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* United Nations
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* Israel
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* African National Congress
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* Cyril Ramaphosa
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* South Africa
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* China
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* Xi Jinping
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* COVID-19
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* Uyghurs
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* ALBA
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* Cuba
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* South Korea
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* war on women
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* Italy
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* Ukraine
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* peace movement
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* Swaziland
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* soccer
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