Portside

1. The Hague Group Indicts Genocide
2. World in Transition
3. Brazil News
4. War and Counterrevolution in Sudan 
5. Backlash Against Mexico City Gentrification
6. New Caledonia vs Old France
7. UK Doings
8. China’s Aborted Perestroika
9. Finland: Memelord on the Left
10. The Tears of Gaza’s Men Are an Act of Rebellion

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The Hague Group Indicts Genocide

José Olivares / Drop Site (Washington DC)

Ministers and officials from over 30 countries gathered in Bogotá, Colombia to convene The Hague Group, an international organization co-chaired by the governments of Colombia and South Africa. The two-day conference discussed steps forward for the international community to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. [See the opening presentations here.]

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World in Transition

 • Requiem for Multilateralism   Walden Bello / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)

 • Prospects for Multipolarity   Dang Dinh Quy / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

 • Lenin’s Imperialism Today   Emiliano Brancaccio / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
 

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Brazil News

 • Lula Sim, Trump Não   Brad Reed / Common Dreams (Portland ME)

 • Video: Public Fury Against Trump Tariffs   CRUX (Mumbai) 

 • Demanding Abortion Rights   Eléonore Hughes / Associated Press (New York)

 • PSOL at 40    Luciana Genro / Europe Solitaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
 

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War and Counterrevolution in Sudan 

Razaz H. Basheir / Africa is a Country (New York)

Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.

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Backlash Against Mexico City Gentrification

Oscar Lopez / The Guardian (London)

Protests this month laid bare the growing anger from locals against foreigners who have flocked to the Mexican capital since the coronavirus pandemic.

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New Caledonia vs Old France

Murad Abiyev / Caliber (Baku)

A historic event has been taking place in France since last week — a high-level summit between supporters of New Caledonia’s independence and loyalists favouring unity with France. The standoff between pro-independence forces and the colonial authorities has reached such intensity that Paris now recognises: without active dialogue, it will be difficult to keep New Caledonia within its orbit.

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UK Doings

 • The Take: Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity   Manuel Rapalo / Al Jazeera (Doha)

 • Palestine Action: “We Hold the Radical Line”   Rivkah Brown / Novara Media (London)

 • A New Party on the Drawing Board   Indlieb Farazi Saber / Al Jazeera

 • Is the Left Resurfacing?   Aletha Adu and Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian (London)

 • UK's Biggest Union: Tensions With Labour Party   Kate Devlin and David Maddox / Independent (London)

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China’s Aborted Perestroika

Rana Mitter / Project Syndicate (Kings Park NY)

Neoliberalism reshaped the global economy by encouraging freer capital flows and a shift away from government intervention and planning. China’s extraordinary growth in the 1980s and 1990s was closely tied to these global trends, enabling it to harness its immense labor force and put itself on a path to becoming the world’s manufacturing powerhouse.

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Finland: Memelord on the Left

Mike Watson / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

In the recent Finnish elections, leftist meme account admin Alma Tuuva was among the newly elected councilors for the Left Alliance. She demonstrates how to use the web to turn the tables on rightist libertarians. Her Finnish-language memes use familiar Insta-influencer and political meme aesthetics to address themes around social and economic equality, cultural funding, and trans issues.

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The Tears of Gaza’s Men Are an Act of Rebellion

A.J. / +972 (Tel Aviv)

Despite the intentional dehumanization of our people and emasculation of our men, Gaza is birthing a new kind of masculinity — based not on militarism or stoicism but on moral clarity and dignity, even in starvation.