- Africa in the New World Disorder
- South Korea: Yoon Ousted, Unrest Grows
- Brazil’s Student Movement
- France: Militarism and Ukraine Solidarity
- Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
- Our Streets, Milei!
- UK: What Will Happen to Just Stop Oil?
- Breakthrough in Ecuador
- Labor News
- The Left After Assad’s Downfall
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Africa in the New World Disorder
William Shoki / Amandla! (Cape Town)
The post-liberation political order in Africa is coming apart, but what comes next is far from clear. The erosion of ruling party legitimacy has not yet translated into meaningful systemic transformation. In this moment of transition, the real battle is not just over elections but over the very nature of the state, economic governance, and Africa’s place in a rapidly changing world order.
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South Korea: Yoon Ousted, Unrest Grows
Youngsu Won / Links (Sydney)
For the millions who mobilised to demand Yoon’s ouster, the wait between parliamentary impeachment and the court’s decision was much too long, considering the obvious facts of the case. Once again the importance of people’s power in establishing and consolidating the country’s present-day democracy has been demonstrated.
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Brazil’s Student Movement
Alice Taylor / NACLA Report (New York)
A gathering of the largest student congress in Latin America, the Biennial of the National Student Union united thousands of student governing bodies across the country. The event offers a window into youth activism and its efforts to confront the critical challenges of our time.
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France: Militarism and Ukraine Solidarity
US/Russia Threat Aurélien Saintoul, et al. / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Unions Support Ukrainian Workers Pierre Jequier-Zalc / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Sara Saidi / Equal Times (Brussels)
Thousands of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are victims of human rights violations and unrelenting discrimination. “It is up to the workers to unite before it is too late. As long as the workers abroad can complain, write letters, join a union… they must do so, and not remain silent,” says Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and advocacy for ALQST, a not-for-profit human rights organisation.
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Our Streets, Milei!
Forrest Hylton / London Review of Books
As Milei celebrated congressional approval of the IMF package in the Casa Rosada, a crescendo of songs, chants, trumpets, cymbals, drums and fireworks came from the growing crowd in the plaza in front of Argentina’s Congress, sectioned off into three parts by police. One banner said: ‘Stealing from pensioners is a social crime.’
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UK: What Will Happen to Just Stop Oil?
Richard Hames / Novara Media (London)
Rapid attempts to change government policy – a ‘war of manoeuvre’ – have given way to the broader but slower project of trying to influence the whole of political culture, a ‘war of position’. The criticism that Just Stop Oil focused too heavily on spectacle at the cost of building more robust organisations had already been anticipated by a recent change of direction in the wider movement.
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Breakthrough in Ecuador
Pablo Meriguet / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
The candidates for the presidency of Ecuador are vying for every last vote and seeking to establish strategic political alliances. Luisa González, candidate of the Citizen Revolution movement (RC), who reached 44% of the valid votes in the first electoral round, signed a historic agreement with Pachakutik (PK). PK is the electoral arm of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities.
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Labor News
Myanmar: Existential Threat Khaing Zar Aung / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
Belgium Strike Roland Kulke / transform! europe (Vienna)
Canadian Unions and Trade War Geoff Bickerton / Socialist Project (Toronto)
China: Defending Women’s Job Security Kloe Zheng, Peter Guo and Mithil Aggarwal / NBC News (New York)
Unions Form United Front in Alberta Charles Rusnell / The Tyee (Vancouver)
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The Left After Assad’s Downfall
Ziad Wannous and Ansar Jasim / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The ambitions of Syria’s Left are big. We want to transform Syria into a better place. We need to form organizations and parties. There’s no left-wing force today able to effectively organize and effect change on its own. The Left today seeks to form cells in order to forge alliances across ideological divisions, beyond creating rival camps of Right versus Left or Islamists versus atheists.
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