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Global Left Midweek - May 29 2019

Portside
Post-Election Pandemonium! EU, India, South Africa, Israel, Iraq - and national strike in Sudan, suppression of Marxists in China, climate kids call on adults, Yellow Vests' inside baseball, and the workers of the world!

The People are with Evo: A Glimpse at a New Bolivia

Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui People’s Dispatch
Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui, the leader of the Unified Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers Union (CSUTCB): after being marginalized for hundreds of years, indigenous people are gaining rights. That is why we support Evo.

Useful Enemies

Christopher de Bellaigue The Guardian
This book examines the influence Islam had on European political thought between the 15th to the 18th centuries, as well as the complex relations between the Ottoman Empire and emergent modern Europe during that era.

A Modi Victory Puts India’s 200 Million Muslims in Danger

Ruchira Gupta The Nation
The Hindu nationalist party ran a hate-filled campaign and now seems poised to return to power with a terrifying mandate. Update: Thursday May 23: The results from Thursday's elections did show an overwhelming victory for Narendra Modi's BJP Party.

My Pentagon Regret

James Carroll TomDispatch
As the U.S. Rattles Its Sabers at Tehran, Echoes of Sabers Past