Global Left Midweek - October 10, 2018
- MST Open Letter on Brazil Election
- Brazil: Chomsky Meets Lula
- France: Mélenchon Speaks
- El Salvador: Far Right Targets FMLN
- UK: What's In Store For Corbyn
- The Interconnected Feminist Movements of South Asia
- Austria: Weekly Protest
MST Open Letter on Brazil Election
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra / Socialist Project (Toronto)
This election is marked by the class struggle: For a project that combines the most conservative sectors of our society and international capital, against the workers’ project.
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Brazil: Chomsky Meets Lula
Noam Chomsky / The Intercept (Rio de Janeiro)
One of the most significant political prisoners of the current period is kept in isolation so that the “soft coup” in Brazil can proceed on course.
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France: Mélenchon Speaks
Jean-Luc Mélenchon / Jacobin (New York)
The sovereignty of the people, its political sovereignty, is the challenge of our time. For this sovereignty runs against today’s capitalism: a financial and transnational capitalism that can only develop precisely by removing rules and controls.
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El Salvador: Far Right Targets FMLN
David Grosser / Green Left Weekly (Sydney)
With the second FMLN administration nearing its end, a third term after next year’s presidential vote is very much in doubt.
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UK: What's In Store For Corbyn
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin / Red Pepper (London)
Effective socialist economic and social restructuring of Britain cannot be realised without open discussion of the need to turn the whole financial system into a public utility.
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The Interconnected Feminist Movements of South Asia
The Cat's Eye / Daily FT (Colombo)
India and Sri Lanka, and indeed South Asia, are connected in the fight for social justice. We share the same oppressive law (Sec. 365 and 365A, Sri Lankan Penal Code), and we were part of the fight to change it.
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Austria: Weekly Protest
Angela Mayr / Il Manifesto Global (Rome)
Austrians return to the streets each Thursday to voice their opposition to the ‘crypto-fascist’ Kurz government.