Global Left Midweek – Solidarity With Ukraine
- Solidarity with Ukraine
- More European Takes
- International Women’s Day 2025: Accelerate Action
- Global Day of Action to Close Military Bases
- Letter to the Israeli Left
- Resistance to Genocide in Sudan
- The People vs Marcos Jr
- Turkey: Öcalan Calls on PKK to Dissolve
- Trans Pride in Rio
- Review: How Finance Wrecked Democracy
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Solidarity with Ukraine
Robert Francis / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
A truly decolonial approach affirms Ukraine’s struggle as one of self-determination against imperial rule, not merely a proxy in great-power politics. Resistance movements in Ukraine, such as those documented by Avtonom, 161 Crew’s Ukraine War Reader, Solidarity Collectives, and the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, provide vital perspectives that counter the dominant geopolitical framing of the war.
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More European Takes
• Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal Catarina Martins and Denis Pilash / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
• Spain Alfons Beck / Links (Sydney)
• Russian Left Russian Socialists for Peace Without Annexations and Posle Editorial Collective / Links
• Rude Awakening Hanna Perekhoda / Voxeurop (Paris)
• Communists in Novosibirsk / Meduza (Riga)
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International Women’s Day 2025: Accelerate Action
Collective action and shared ownership for driving gender parity is what makes International Women’s Day impactful. So make IWD your day and do what you can to truly make a positive difference for women.
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Global Day of Action to Close Military Bases
World Beyond War (Chartlottesville)
On February 23 and surrounding days, individuals and organizations around the world took coordinated action in their communities to call for the closure of all military bases as part of the Global Day of Action to Close Bases. Over 60 events took place in Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, Germany, Guam, Ireland, and more.
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Letter to the Israeli Left
Nevo Spiegel / Boston Review
Interpersonal exercises have taken the place of organizing for political power, aimed at clear-eyed political solutions. How did we, the Israeli left, get it so wrong? And why do many still fail to realize this failure? Answering these questions is pivotal now with a fragile ceasefire in Gaza and the Middle East in tatters. The Israeli left must regroup and rethink its way going forward.
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Resistance to Genocide in Sudan
Shireen Akram-Boshar / Truthout (Sacramento)
Members of the Sudanese Resistance Front (SuRF), an organization of Sudanese activists, discuss the U.S.’s sanctions, the relationship between the military factions RSF and SAF, and the role of the UAE and other regional and global powers in maintaining the war in Sudan.
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Asserting History: The People vs Marcos Jr
Kurt Dela Peña / Inquirer.net (City of Makati, Philippines)
Since last year, Feb. 25, the day that marked the end of the over 20-year dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., has ceased to be a special non-working day. But this year, schools and students are taking the lead in resisting attempts to “diminish the significance” of a critical moment in the history of the Philippines — “one that toppled a dictatorship and restored civil liberties.”
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Abdullah Öcalan Calls for Ceasefire
“Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 statement titled ‘Call for Peace and Democratic Society’ is a Manifesto of the Age,” proclaimed the leadership of the PKK, the Kurdish armed party founded by the now imprisoned Öcalan.
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Trans Pride in Rio
Constance Malleret / NACLA Reports (New York)
Brazil’s Carnival may be known internationally as a week of non-stop dancing and celebration, but “the greatest show on earth” is also deeply political. 2025 will be the first time ever that Rio’s Carnival celebrations will feature a parade focused exclusively on Brazil’s transgender community.
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Review: How Finance Wrecked Democracy
Grace Blakeley / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
All over the world, citizens are developing new models of local democracy to facilitate public involvement in decision-making. It’s visible everywhere from Reykjavik, where a participatory budgeting process allocates more funding to tackling homelessness, to Rosario, where local Argentinians resist gentrification and build a network of cooperatives that could serve the needs of their community.