Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024
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Irish reunification in the age of the EU
Irish reunification in the age of the EU
Irish reunification in the age of the EU
Global Left Midweek – August 30, 2023
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News and analysis about and from movements and parties around the world
The Walter Rodney Murder Mystery in Guyana 40 Years Later
National Security Archive
Guyana’s National Assembly has accepted the findings of a commission of inquiry that concluded that scholar-political activist Walter Rodney was assassinated by the government of then-Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. Here are the documents.
Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
The Conversation
After all, writing one’s own history, too, is an act of emancipation.
Whoever Wins this Election, All of Guyana Loses
National Workers Union
Ten days after the Guyanese election, returns have still not been released; and today the head of Guyana's Supreme Court has ordered a partial recount of votes. Two veteran Guyanese politicians call for the creation of a government of national unity.
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The Historical Retrieval and Controversy of Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution
New Politics
Reviewing a volume that amply clarifies the legacy of martyred Pan African historian and militant Walter Rodney, the Guyanese intellectual who emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution.
Global Left Midweek - July 10, 2019
Portside
Rural social movement activists meet in Havana, The future of the EU Left, Greece, Sudan, Guatemala, Guyana, Tunisia
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Supporting Guyana’s Sugar Workers
rankandfile.ca
The history of the sugar workers in Guyana and their union GAWU is one of international solidarity. Today, however, many of the ties which once united unions in Canada, Britain, and the US to Guyana have disappeared. The current struggle against closures and privatization of the sugar industry in Guyana are an opportunity to rebuild solidarity in the fight against austerity everywhere.
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