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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FOCUS ON EUROPE
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February 22, 2023
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_ The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy
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Teachers in Lisbon. Credit, picture alliance/Adri Salido
* General Strike?
* Turkey: Communists Organize Earthquake Rescue
* War, Fascism and Left Unity
* UK: Class Struggle in the Labour Party
* Italy: Crackdown on Anarchists
* France: Left Parties and Pension Reform Upsurge
* Feminism in Eastern Europe
* Ireland: 20,000 Stand Up to Anti-Migrant Haters
* Portugal: Teachers Hit the Streets (Video)
* Hans Modrow (1928–2023)
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GENERAL STRIKE?
* UK
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_Polly Smythe_ / Novara Media (London)
* FRANCE
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_John Mullen_ / Counterfire (London)
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TURKEY: COMMUNISTS ORGANIZE EARTHQUAKE RESCUE
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Peoples Democracy (New Delhi)
Teams formed by TKP members and friends reconstruct their work daily,
based on the updated needs of our people and scientific knowledge on
disaster management. They are restructuring their efforts in line
with the needs changing day by day. We are mobilising our growing
human and logistical resources, thanks to solidarity efforts, against
the freezing cold, hunger and thirst.
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WAR, FASCISM AND LEFT UNITY
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_Walter Baier_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)
We support the social movements and trade unions in the struggle for a
social and ecological transformation. The basic question is: who
should be the active subject of this transformation? We know that the
only kind of transformation that can succeed is one that is
implemented by wage-earning men and women. And so democracy is the
decisive criterion of the transformation.
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UK: CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE LABOUR PARTY
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_Liam Payne_ / Labour Hub (London)
* ‘THE WORKING CLASS IS BACK’
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* TORIES BANNING STRIKES
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_Jon Stone_ / The Independent (London)
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ITALY: CRACKDOWN ON ANARCHISTS
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_Jack Harmsworth_ / Novara Media
The prosecutor-general of Italy’s supreme court recommended that
Alfredo Cospito be released from the highly restrictive “41-bis”
system under which he has been detained since last spring. A
controversial figure in Italy, many consider Cospito a domestic
terrorist. To others, he is the victim of a state expanding a brutal
prison regime to new targets.
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FRANCE: LEFT PARTIES AND PENSION REFORM UPSURGE
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_Davide Basso_ / EURACTIV (Brussels)
France’s left-wing parties generally differ on political strategy,
but when it comes to the planned pension reform, the left camp,
grouped in the NUPES alliance, is united against the government’s
bill. Some more divisive topics were excluded from electoral
agreements. Is this coherent stand against the pension reform just a
facade or an expression of fundamental unity?
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FEMINISM IN EASTERN EUROPE
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_Lucy Martirosyan_ / openDemocracy (London)
The feminist movement in Eastern Europe has radically changed in the
past three years, with women’s rights activists having to adapt to
war, conflict and the rise of the anti-gender movement. Local
women’s funds in Ukraine, Armenia, Poland, Georgia and Germany have
been working together to assess the needs of women and girls.
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IRELAND: 20,000 STAND UP TO ANTI-MIGRANT HATERS
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_Amy Blaney_ / Irish Independent (Dublin)
Demanding an "Ireland for All," tens of thousands of Irish people
marched
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Dublin to make clear their opposition to recent violent attacks on
migrants and rallies claiming the country "is full" and can't accept
refugees.
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PORTUGAL: TEACHERS HIT THE STREETS (VIDEO)
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WION (New Delhi)
S.T.O.P. – arguably the most militant union involved in the ongoing
teachers’ strikes – is now appealing for a national strike to show
the government “it should stop prioritising the thousands of
millions of euros for banks and ruinous private-public
partnerships”.
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HANS MODROW
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_Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
Hans Modrow was the last communist prime minister of the German
Democratic Republic before free elections took place in March
1990. Modrow was known for his tolerance, innovative approach and
lack of dogmatism. He oversaw the dissolution of Stasi and the
formation of the Party of Democratic Socialism and its successor, Die
Linke.
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