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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MIDEAST FOCUS
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January 4, 2023
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Jordanians show solidarity with occupied Palestinians in 2020.
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* Women’s Rights in the Gulf in 2022
* Fighting Resumes in Defense of Western Sahara
* Iran’s Moment of Truth
* Palestine’s Rising Tide
* Afghanistan: One Word of Defiance Against Taliban Misogyny
* Protests Spread in Jordan
* Lula Launches Reform Government
* Nepal Power Shifts
* Ukrainian Voices
* New Year Gift: Download _The Crisis and Future of Democracy_
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE GULF IN 2022
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_Jennifer Holleis_ / NewsClick (New Delhi)
Despite significant gains, women’s rights remain curtailed in the
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. What was achieved in
2022 and what are the crucial topics for the coming year?
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FIGHTING RESUMES IN DEFENSE OF WESTERN SAHARA
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_Pavan Kulkarni_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Moroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic (SADR) have come under repeated bombardment by the Sahrawi
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Moroccan forces currently occupy
over 80% of SADR, also known as Western Sahara, which remains
classified by the UN as among the last countries still awaiting
decolonization.
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Iran’s Moment of Truth
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_Christopher de Bellaigue_ / The Guardian (London)
Iran has entered a period of rolling protest in which the Islamic
Republic must defend itself against wave upon wave of public
anger. The ability of the opposition to pull together is only
beginning to be tested. But already we know that whatever happens in
Iran over the next few months, something has changed, something
fundamental.
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PALESTINE’S RISING TIDE
* IS A NEW INTIFADA COMING?
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_Cenk Agcabay_ / Socialist Project (Toronto)
* 2022: THE DEADLIEST YEAR
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_Huthifa Fayyad_ / Middle East Eye (London)
* THOUSANDS MARCH IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
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/ Peoples Dispatch
* A NEW JEWISH-ARAB PARTY
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* ROCKING GAZA
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AFGHANISTAN: ONE WORD OF DEFIANCE AGAINST TALIBAN MISOGYNY
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_Noor Gul Shafaq_ / BBC World Service (London)
On Sunday 25 December, a woman stood in front of Kabul University
holding up a board with a particularly powerful word written on it -
_iqra_, or ‘read’. Muslims believe this was the first word
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by God. “God has given us the
right to education. We need to be afraid of God, not the Taliban who
want to take away our rights,” she told the BBC Afghan service.
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PROTESTS SPREAD IN JORDAN
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_Mohammad Ayesh_ / Middle East Eye
Jordan is witnessing escalating popular protests whose violent turn
has ushered in an important, sensitive, and dangerous period in the
country's history. But what is happening in Jordan cannot be isolated
from current conditions and growing tensions in the entire region,
signalling what may be a prelude to a second wave of the Arab Spring.
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Lula Launches Reform Government
* FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE ACTS
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Brasil de Fato (São Paulo)
* FIRST APPOINTMENTS
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NEPAL POWER SHIFTS
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_Kallol Bhattacherjee_ / The Hindu (Mumbai)
Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” was sworn in as the Prime Minister
of Nepal on December 26, 2022. At the event, both the former Maoist
rebel leader Prachanda and the outgoing Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba were dressed in _daura-suruwal_, the dress of Nepal’s
traditional power elite. Did the choice of _daura-suruwal _indicate
an evolution in the ex-guerilla’s ideological journey?
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UKRAINIAN VOICES
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_Volodymyr Ishchenko_ / New Left Review (London)
National liberation is no longer understood as intrinsically linked to
social revolution, challenging the basis of capitalism and
imperialism. Instead, the results under neoliberalism neither achieve
the consolidation of liberal democracy nor eradicate corruption, even
if authoritarian regimes are overthrown, ‘empowering’
the ngo representatives of civil society.
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DOWNLOAD _THE CRISIS AND FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY_
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In 14 chapters, this book tackles a wide range of problems surrounding
democracy. The authors bring together a wealth of knowledge, astute
insights and forward-looking conclusions about the state of democracy,
the potential for democratic change and the actors and strategies that
can get us there. We hope it will inspire political action striving
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