Global Left Midweek – November 2, 2022
- Lula and Democracy Win
- Ukraine’s Movements
- More on China CP 20th Congress
- UK’s March of the Mummies (not a Halloween story)
- Pride in South Africa
- Climate NGOs Take on the Banks
- Video: Peace is Possible
- Generational Reflections on Iran Protests
- Democracy at Issue in British Columbia’s NDP
- War Debate Continues
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Lula and Democracy Win
- Victory Speech Reaffirms Principles Zoe Alexandra / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
- How We Won Ciara Nugent / Time (New York)
- Race in Brazilian Politics Vanessa Sarmiento / Worldcrunch (Paris)
- Role of Evangelicals Constance Malleret / NACLA Report (New York)
- The Election and the Left Cassia Bechara / NACLA Report
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Ukraine’s Movements
- Sotsialnyi Rukh/Social Movement Catherine Samary / Links (Sydney)
- Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners Kateryna Semchuk / openDemocracy (London)
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More on China CP 20th Congress
Fang Ning, Jan Turowski and Sun Wei / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
It makes little sense to compare a Party Congress of a state party in a party-state with Western political parties, but rather to look closer at the self-understanding of these processes. How are Party Congresses prepared, and by whom? Who attends, and who decides who attends? What function do they have in the country’s wider political ecosystem?
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UK’s March of the Mummies (not a Halloween story)
Geneva Abdul / The Guardian (London)
Thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for the March of the Mummies protest against a childcare structure that many say is setting parents, children and society up for failure.
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Pride in South Africa
Mpho Rantao / IOL (Cape Town)
South Africans are known for marching on the streets to have their voices heard, and it has worked. The question to pose to the government is how long the LGBTQIA+ community must wait before violence against them is further outlawed and they can move freely in their land.
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Climate NGOs Take on the Banks
Oxfam International
BNP Paribas – the number one financier of fossil fuel expansion in Europe and fifth in the world – faces legal action taken by the NGOs Oxfam France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous. This is the first step towards an unprecedented climate litigation case - the first in the world to target a commercial bank for its high-risk activities in the oil and gas sector.
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Video: Peace is Possible
Geneva Peace Week
Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics relating to the promotion of peace across contexts and disciplines.
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Generational Reflections on Iran Protests
FG / Jadaliyya (Beirut)
In one WhatsApp group, a 50-year-old medical professional named FG who has lived in Iran her entire life, articulated her complex emotions arising from, on the one hand, the desire to support the youth in the streets, and on the other, a paralyzing fear she understands to be twinned to her generation.
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Democracy at Issue in British Columbia’s NDP
Keith Wiley / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
The BC NDP has just narrowly avoided a takeover by its own members. Responding to the leadership challenge by climate activist Anjali Appadurai, the party resorted to a technical disqualification and dodged an open contest and debate on the province’s direction.
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War Debate Continues
- Theses on the War in Ukraine Dave Holmes and Renfrey Clarke / Links (Sydney)
- Response to ‘Theses’ Chris Slee / Links
- Has Ukraine Gone Too Far? John Feffer / Foreign Policy in Focus (Washington DC)
- Putin Out of Rope Ronald Suny / The Conversation (Waltham MA)