https://portside.org/2020-07-01/global-left-midweek-july-1-2020

1. Sudan: The March of the Millions Begins
2. UK Labour’s “Anti-Semitism” Purge
3. Defending Black Lives
4. Pandemic Responses
5. Southern Tunisia Erupts in Protest
6. How Zapatistas “Police”
7. Political Prisoners
8. Legacies

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Sudan

The March of the Millions Begins  / Radio Dabanga (Khartoum)

“Correcting the Revolution”  Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

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UK Labour’s “Anti-Semitism” Purge

Rebecca Long-Bailey  Heather Stewart / The Guardian (London)

Chris Williamson / The Canary (Bristol)

The Ruse  Joe Gill / Middle East Eye (London)

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Defending Black Lives

African Writers: “Our Blood”  Chris Abani et al. / Al Jazeera (Doha)

Palestine  TRT World (Istanbul)

Greta Thunberg  Jessica Murray / The Guardian

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Pandemic Responses

International Nurses Day  Anish R / Peoples Dispatch 

Indonesian Workers  Michele Ford / Open Democracy (London)

The Twin Pandemics  Imani Countess and William Minter / AfricaFocus (Washington)

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Southern Tunisia Erupts in Protest

Sam Kimball / The National (Abu Dhabi)

The protests began as peaceful sit-in that had been going on for two weeks to demand that the government fulfill a 2017 agreement to distribute wealth more equitably and provide jobs in one of the country’s most marginalised regions.

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How Zapatistas “Police”

Anya Briy / Open Democracy

The most instructive features of Zapatistas’ social organization are bottom-up decision-making, autonomous justice, education and healthcare systems, and cooperative economy.

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Political Prisoners

Sweep of Arrests in Egypt  Tom Allinson and Lewis Sanders IV / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

Simón Trinidad, Colombia  W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)

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Legacies

Hachalu Hundessa, Ethiopia  / Deutsche Welle 

Haluk Savaş, Turkey   / Ahval

Zeev Sternhell, Israel  / France 24 (Paris)

Idir, Algeria  Nabil Boudraa / MERIP Report (Tacoma WA)