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Global Left Midweek - April 22, 2020

Ideas for the present and the future from the international left, news reports, and more.

  1. Left Forces Offer Ideas for the Present and Future
  2. Latin America
  3. Asia
  4. UK Labour
  5. Notes for Covid Webinars
  6. Legacies

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Left Forces Offer Ideas for the Present and Future

Till, Sow and Harvest  La Via Campesina (Harare)

A Decade on the Left  Leo Panitch / Tribune (London)

This Changes Everything  Amandla! (Cape Town)

Philippines: Partido Lakas ng Masa   Ang Masa (Quezon City, RP)

South Africa: SAFTU  (Johannesburg)

Brazil: Frente Brasil Popular and Frente Povo Sem Medo   Links (Sydney)

Romania: BLOC for Housing   LeftEast (Bucharest)

From Latin America

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Women’s Mass Self-Defense Actions  Estefanía Castañeda Pérez / NACLA Report (New York)

Brazil: Compensation for Ashaninka  Naira Hofmeister / Mongabay (Menlo Park CA)

Bolivia: Free Elena Flores   Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

From Asia

South Korea Election  Youngsu Won / Links 

Domestic Workers in Hong Kong  Jason Y. Ng / Hong Kong Free Press

UK Labour Left

Left Groups Network  Elliot Chappell / LabourList (London)

A Role for Momentum  Johnbosco Nwogbo / Red Pepper (London)

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Covid-19 Webinar Resources

Shalmali Guttal / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

Corporations and financial markets must not be bailed out; but public goods, services, infrastructure, health and welfare need to be invested in, including research and development.

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Legacies 

Thandika Mkandawire  Ibbo Mandaza / The Africa Report (Paris)

Adulkareem Motajo   Baba Aye / Baba Aye's (Ferney-Voltaire, France)

Luis Sepúlveda  Diego Rivera / Chile Today (Santiago)