Global Left Midweek - October 3, 2018

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Vijay Prashad on Venezuela
Vietnam's New President
UK: Labour Party Meets
Pan-Africanism Conference in Ghana
Murder Wave in Colombia
Breakthrough for Québec Solidaire
Euro Left Seminar in Vienna

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Venezuela Next

Vijay Prashad / Frontline (Chennai)

Reports that U.S. officials and Venezuelan commanders had conversations about regime change in Venezuela point to the latest instance in a series of covert attempts at destabilising that country.

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Women's Union Leader is Vietnam's New President

Brendan Cole / Newsweek (New York)

Vietnam's constitution states that the vice president must take over duties, meaning Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh will become the country's first woman president.

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UK: Labour Conference 2018

Ellie Mae O'Hagan / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Brussels)

Policies that were considered beyond the pale even just five years ago are being accepted by all sides as popular and pragmatic.

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Pan-Africanism Conference Charts Course Towards a Socialist Continent

Prasanth R. / People's Dispatch (New Delhi)

The hundreds of delegates who met in Ghana held discussions on five major themes that are of prime importance in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

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Colombia: Social Leaders Killed With Impunity

Valerie Carmel / teleSUR (Caracas)

Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and Campesino leaders are being targeted, threatened and murdered.

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Solidaires Score Important Breakthrough in Québec Election

Richard Fidler / Socialist Project (Toronto)

Québec solidaire more than doubled its share of the popular vote and elected 10 members to the National Assembly.

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"The Laugh of the Medusa: The Left in Europe"

Angelina Giannopoulou / transform! europe (Brussels)

The aim of the seminar was to present the strengths and weaknesses of Europe’s left-wing parties and to discuss their strategic options for future struggles.