https://portside.org/2018-11-07/global-left-midweek-november-7-2018

1. Google: International Walkout Against Sexism
2. Kurdistan: Revolutionary Rojava
3. Brazil's Left Promises Unity Against Bolsonario
4. Italy: Rossana Rossanda Speaks Bitterness
5. Could Left-Wing Populism Take Flight in Canada?
6. Africa and Marx 200
7. What’s Left in Latin America?

 

 

Google: International Walkout Against Sexism

Briana Wallace / India Today (Noida)

Here’s what the situation looks like in different cities around the world.

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Kurdistan: Revolutionary Rojava

Rachel Evans / Links (Sydney)

The Kurdish liberation movement has developed a theory — jineology, or “the science of women” — that prioritises women’s liberation and developing women in public life.

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Brazil's Left Promises Unity Against Bolsonario

Diego Sartorato / Green Left Weekly (Sydney)

'We are on our feet, prepared and determined to continue mobilising and struggling for our dreams. Dictatorship, never again.'

 

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Italy: Rossana Rossanda Speaks Bitterness

Diego Bianchi / Il Manifesto Global (Rome)

'A political force has to ask itself about what kind of world it exists in, what kind of country it’s in, and what it would do if it were in government.'

 

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Could Left-Wing Populism Take Flight in Canada?

Alex Ballingall / The Star (Toronto)

The energy of populism seized by the right can also be claimed by the parties of the left. And in Canada, that means the NDP.

 

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Africa and Marx 200

Phindile Kunene / Amandla (Cape Town)

The end of the 1960s right up to the middle of the 1980s could be considered a period of Marxist governance on the African continent.

 

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What’s Left in Latin America?

Jenny Pearce / Red Pepper (London)

While the right and many international observers tend to divide them into a ‘good’ social democratic left and a ‘bad’ radical left, the reality is much more complex.