Global Left Midweek – November 29, 2023
Portside
Protest goes international
Protest goes international
Protest goes international
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A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism
Convergence
Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.
Global Left Midweek – October 4, 2023
Portside
News and analysis on left parties and social movements around the world
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Ernst Bloch: Looking Backward, Looking Forward in the Fight Against Fascism
Socialist Forum
The German Marxist philosopher's work can help us understand fascism and how to fight it. Ernst Bloch was a critical Marxist thinker, a close supporter (though not a member) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from the 1920s through the 1950s.
“We Are at the Beginning of a New Phase”
transform! europe
Italy needs a coalition — not a coalition of anti-fascist forces, but rather a coalition for anti-fascism.
Global Left Midweek – April 5, 2023
Portside
Crisis deepens, struggle rises in France and Israel/Palestine
History Lessons for Antifascists
CounterPunch
A study of strategies that have shaped antifascist mobilizations over the past century, offers lessons for thinking about an “effective and long-term response to the loose coalition of forces that we saw at the Capitol … [an] entanglement that we will continue to see in the coming weeks and months.”
Global Left Midweek – Focus on Europe
Portside
The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy as a strategic goal
‘B4’ It’s Too Late: The Socialist Left’s Role in Fighting Autocracy
Convergence
B4—the Broad Front Opposing the Right—can’t be about the status quo. While it must be aimed at defeating all attacks on our democratic rights, its thrust must be to expand democracy and shift US domestic and foreign policy.
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Meet the Original Fascists
The Indypendent
History’s first fascist regime violently seized power in Italy in 1922. It continues to inspire the far right a century later.
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