Global Left Midweek - December 4, 2019
- Pakistan: Student Movement Busts Loose
- Another World Is Still Turning
- The Hong Kong Vote
- Party Politics Shift in Germany and Québec
- Mass Protests: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon
- Attacks on Kurdish Militants in Syria and Turkey
- Italy: Meet the Sardines
- France: National Strike
- Haiti: Demanding Answers in the Death of Charlot Jeudy
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Pakistan: Student Movement Busts Loose
An Answer to Fred’s Question Raza Gilani / Asian Marxist Review (Lahore)
Students: "The Desire for Revolution" V. Arun Kumar / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
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Another World Is Still Turning
Pierre Beaudet / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
Today's power struggles are complex, not predetermined, allowing creative movements to regroup, transcend their past experiences and invent new forms of political and social mobilization.
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The Hong Kong Vote
Election Results Kris Cheng / Hong Kong Free Press
What's Next Phila Su and Kinling Lo / South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
A Pro-Beijing View Regina Ip / South China Morning Post
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Party Politics Shift in Germany and Québec
German Social Democrats Loren Balhorn / Jacobin (New York)
Québec Solidaire Richard Fidler / Socialist Project (Toronto)
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Mideast Mass Protests
Iran Crackdowns Michael Safi / The Guardian (London)
Iraq Triumph Tom Westcott / Middle East Eye (London)
The Lebanese Street Ursula Lindsey / New York Review of Books
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Attacks on Kurdish Militants
Syria Adnan R. Khan / Maclean's (Toronto)
Turkey Hamit Bozarslan / Ahval (London)
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Italy: Meet the Sardines
Daniela Preziosi and Giovanni Stinco / Il Manifesto Global (Rome)
"The sardine events are full of people who hate inequality. And a great component is the LGBT sphere, feminists, immigrants. There’s a reason behind that. They are people who have suffered under the aggressive attacks from right-wing populist language and the Lega."
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France: National Strike
Richard Greeman / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)
On the eve of an “unlimited” (open-ended) General Strike called for Dec. 5, more and more unions and protest groups are pledging join it. The Yellow Vests have decided to converge with the strike, and the CGT union’s leader, who had originally spurned the Yellow Vests, immediately welcomed them.
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Haiti: Demanding Answers in the Death of Charlot Jeudy
CBC (Ottawa)
Haiti’s most prominent LGBTQ rights organization, Kouraj, or Courage, is mourning the suspicious death of their president Charlot Jeudy in the Capital of Port-au-Prince on November 25.