https://portside.org/2024-11-27/global-left-midweek-november-27-2024

1. COP29: We’ll Not Back Down!
2. Uruguay: Broad Front Wins Presidency
3. First Nations Walking the Land 
4. Sheinbaum Defiant
5. Concerning the Euro Left
6. Nigeria: Mass Hunger Fuels Mass Movement
7. Hong Kong
8. Cuba and Trump
9. Global Labor
10. María Elena Moyano

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COP29: We’ll Not Back Down!

Débora Gastal / 350.org (Boston)

Vulnerable countries had no choice but to accept a bad deal. The US$300 billion goal is an improvement on the previous US$100 billion set 15 years ago, but it still falls extremely short of the amount needed to support vulnerable nations in adapting to climate impacts, transitioning to renewable energy, and ensuring a just and equitable response to the climate crisis.

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Uruguay: Broad Front Wins Presidency

Pablo Meriguet / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

Many analysts predicted that the Broad Front would not be able to clinch a win in the second round given that, in the previous election, the right-wing managed to rally other parties in favor of the right-wing candidate. But candidate Yamandú Orsi’s social democratic discourse of rescuing public institutions convinced more voters than the neoliberal proposals of Álvaro Delgado. 

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First Nations Walking the Land 

Meaghan Weatherdon / The Conversation (Waltham MA)

For Indigenous activists, walking the land can take on powerful spiritual and political significance. It has been, and continues to be, an important way Indigenous nations pursue healing, environmental stewardship and diplomacy across Turtle Island, the name many Indigenous groups use to refer to North America.

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Sheinbaum Defiant

CBS News (New York)

President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate—with tariffs of its own, after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn't stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border. “If tariffs go up, who will it hurt? General Motors,” she said.

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Concerning the Euro Left

 • Europe Needs an Action-Oriented Left   Manon Aubry and Nessim Achouche / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

 • Russia: For a New Left Bloc   Boris Kagarlitsky / Links (Sydney)

 • Die Linke Has to Be a Party for the Working Class   Ines Schwerdtner and David Browder / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

 • A Left Alternative to Starmer’s Labour Party?   Andy Beckett / The Guardian (London)

 • Stirrings in Lithuania   Jurgis Valiukevičius and Simon Pirani / People and Nature (Oxford)

 

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Nigeria: Mass Hunger Fuels Mass Movement

Baba Aye / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)

Most important in these days of protest is the soil it has ploughed for the seeds of a storm, which is likely to come quite soon. As the protest organisers pointed out when the state was finding people to hold responsible as mobilisers for the protest, the key mobilisers are hunger and generalised hardship in the land.

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Hong Kong

 • The HK 47   Erin Hale / Al Jazeera (Doha)

 • Interview With an Activist   Sunny Cheung / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

 • Can the Movement Regroup?   Yuchen Li and Yoshi Pak / Deutsche Welle

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Cuba and Trump

Rafael Hernández / OnCuba News (Miami)

For Cuba, in practical terms, never as now has it been more evident that the policy of force and exclusion has a bipartisan character, that it continues in the logic of the so-called deep state, the bureaucracies in charge of implementing it, regardless of who is in the White House.

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Global Labor 

 • Greek General Strike   Elena Becatoros and Derek Gatopoulos / Associated Press (New York)

 • Greece: PAME Congress Document   / Panergatiko Agonistiko Metopo (Athens)

 • Canada Post Strike   Danielle Smith / Labor Notes (Brooklyn)

 • China and a Strike in Myanmar   / The Irrawaddy (Yangon)

 • State of Unions in UK   Peter Bach / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)

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María Elena Moyano

Néstor David Pastor / NACLA Report (New York)

Moyano, a community organizer in Peru, was murdered by Shining Path while attending at a fundraiser in 1992. More than 300,000 people attended Moyano’s burial. In the aftermath of such a shocking and horrific murder, the Shining Path would lose virtually all sympathy to its cause—a shift in public perception largely credited to Moyano.