Global Left Midweek - September 23, 2020
- Rossana Rossanda 1924-2020
- Myesha Jenkins 1948-2020
- Why Internationalism is Necessary
- Progressive International Summit
- Palestine After the Bahrain/UAE/Israel Pact
- The Battle For Bolivia
- Meet South Africa’s Covid Social Movement
- Thai Students Defy the Monarchy
- Spain: Neighborhoods Protest Lockdown Bias
- Who Ordered the Killing of Basra’s Activists?
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The Woman Who Looked History in the Eye
Rossana Rossanda / Jacobin (New York)
On the death of the profound revolutionary journalist and activist, her memory of the founding of il manifesto offers an example for our time.
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Myesha Jenkins, Poet of Love and Liberation
Johannesburg Review of Books
Jenkins moved to South Africa from Los Angeles in 1993, after many years as an anti-apartheid activist. She co-founded the Feela Sistah! Spoken Word Collective, which broke new ground that contributed to a ‘seismic shift that transformed national culture through poetry’.
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Why Internationalism is Essential
Jennie-Laure Sully / rabble.ca (Toronto)
It is urgent to strengthen our social movements by developing an internationalist political conscience. “Think globally, act locally,” has become an empty slogan for many.
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Progressive International Summit
The New Indian Express (Chennai)
Progressive International held its first ever two-day summit which brought together the organisation’s council from around 70 organisations from over 40 countries to plan collective actions.
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Palestine After the Bahrain/UAE/Israel Pact
Video: Anger in the Streets Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Prospects For Unity Ali Adam / The New Arab (London)
Prospects For Change Marwa Fatafta and Alaa Tartir / Foreign Policy (Washington)
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The Battle For Bolivia
Coup Leaders On the Defensive Jihan Abdalla / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Death Squads Hit MAS Canvassers teleSUR (Caracas)
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Meet South Africa’s Covid Social Movement
Kate Alexander / Review of African Political Economy (London)
The C19 People’s Coalition has demonstrated the capacity for working-class activists and their sympathizers to mobilize for social justice even under the conditions of a draconian lockdown.
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Thailand Protests Challenge the Monarchy
Authorities Threaten Crackdown Panarat Thepgumpanat and Matthew Tostevin / Reuters (London)
Behind the Uprising Judha Su and Benjamin Tausig / Progressive International
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Spain: Lockdown Protests Charge Bias Against Poor
Miguel Cantón and Ignacio Gallello / El País (Madrid)
“The primary healthcare system is completely overwhelmed and public transportation is packed in the neighborhoods where people who can’t work from home live.”
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Who Ordered the Killing of Basra’s Activists?
Suadad al-Salhy / Middle East Eye (London)
In Iraq, anti-government protests had begun again last month, with calls for the killers of demonstrators to be identified and brought to justice.