Global Left Midweek - South African Strikes
- Italians Respond to Fascist Attack on CGIL
- South African Unions
- More on the Graz Victory
- Tunisia: Thousands Against President Saied
- Three Views on the Russian Duma Elections
- What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Anti-Apartheid Movement
- News From the New Pink Tide in Latin America
- Niger Delta Mothers Besiege School Principal
- The Anti-Semitism Question
- Happy 90th to Human Rights Giant Desmond Tutu!
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Italians Respond to Fascist Attack on CGIL
Wanted in Rome (Rome)
There are growing calls in Italy for the extreme right group Forza Nuova to be shut down following clashes in Rome on Saturday evening during a protest against the Green Pass — a digital or paper certificate showing covid status. A group of protesters stormed the headquarters of CGIL, the country’s largest trade union, trashing offices inside.
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South African Strikes
Determined to Get a Living Wage Anna Majavu, Oupa Nkosi, Rajesh Jantilal and Sibongile Portia Jonas / New Frame (Johannesburg)
COSATU Marecia Damons, Masego Mafata and Joseph Chirume / GroundUp (Cape Town)
NUMSA Nica Richards / The Citizen (Johannesburg)
SAFTU Masego Mafata and Kimberly Mutandiro / GroundUp
United Front in Mining Wage Talks Ed Stoddard / Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
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More on the Graz Victory
Michael Graber / transform! Europe (Vienna)
The success of the Graz Communists has a long prehistory of a consistent and unerringly pursued social and popular municipal policy, together with the KPÖ leaders’ personal engagement and manifest self-imposed restriction in refusing to accept their full salaries (donating most of them to poor Graz residents).
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Tunisia: Thousands Against President Saied
Videos posted online showed masses of protesters waving Tunisian flags and chanting slogans, including “the people against the coup d’etat” and “raise your voice, the revolution is not dead”.
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Three Views on the Russian Duma Elections
Magic Tricks Evgeny Belyakov / LeftEast
Outcome and Perspectives Leonid Krieger / International Viewpoint (Paris)
Democratic Socialists in the Communist Party Mikhail Lobanov / Jacobin (New York)
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What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Donna Katzin / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington)
The real test of success must be to what extent resources are actually removed from fossil-fuel production and reinvested in renewable energy. Taking the fight directly to corporations — many of which are more powerful than governments — can be incredibly effective.
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News From the New Pink Tide in Latin America
Peru: Leftists Shown the Door / Peru Support Group (London)
Bolivia: Defying the Right, Raising the Wiphala teleSUR (Caracas)
Demanding Abortion Rights in Venezuela Andreína Chávez Alava / Venezuelanalysis (Caracas)
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Niger Delta Mothers Besiege School Principal
Festus Ahon / Vanguard (Lagos)
How does a revolution get started? Like this.
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The Anti-Semitism Question
Commonality of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism Rachel Woodlock / RTÉ (Dublin)
The Crisis in UK Labour Daniel Randall and David Renton / Tempest
Whose Fault? Peter Oborne, Justin Schlosberg and Richard Sanders / openDemocracy (London)
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Happy 90th to Human Rights Giant Desmond Tutu!
Piyushi Kotecha / Daily Maverick
The Arch stands tall among the world’s justice seekers and peacemakers. Already an exceptional legacy figure, he starts a new decade this week as a consistent, uncompromised, fiercely independent affirming voice of healing, justice, faith and unconditional love.