Global Left Midweek – June 18, 2025
- Furious Messages of Hope From the Global South
- Kurdish Responses to Israel’s War on Iran
- Nobel Laureates: Wake Up to the Fascist Danger
- Palestine Solidarity
- Election Postmortems on South Korea and Poland
- Protests Far and Wide
- Indian Parties Denounce Modi Attacks on Maoists
- Anticommunism in Czechia
- Uganda: Opposition to Pipeline
- Dan Gallin (1931-2025)
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Furious Messages of Hope From the Global South
Gabes Torres / Yes! (Poulsbo WA)
[GLM moderator says thanks and a heartfelt farewell to Yes! Magazine, a voice for peace and justice that has recently closed operations. They will be missed.]
To those of you in the United States, the organizers, activists, community workers, and everyday people of the Global South are writing to you about hope, the kind of hope fierce enough to confront the suffering caused by systemic oppression, and one that tactfully and persistently fights to put an end to it.
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Kurdish Responses to Israel’s War on Iran
Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known as Rojhelat.
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Nobel Laureates: Wake Up to the Fascist Danger
The Guardian (London)
In 1925, the Italian intellectual Benedetto Croce wrote the first Manifesto of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, knowing that he had the right to speak and the duty to respond to the rise of Fascism in Italy. A century later, intellectuals from around the world are raising the alarm and speaking out against the return of Fascism.
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Palestine Solidarity
• Palestinians in Israel Unprotected From Missile Strikes Baker Zoubi / +972 (Tel Aviv)
• Under Siege in Egypt Walid El Houri / Global Voices (The Hague)
• European Dockworkers Resist Rafeef Ziadah and Katy Fox-Hodess / Labor Notes (New York)
• Massive Rome Protest / Al Mayadeen English (Beirut)
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Election Postmortems
• South Korea Youngsu Won / Links
• Poland Gavin Rae / New Left Review (London)
• Romania Gianluca Falco / il manifesto Global (Rome)
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Protests Far and Wide
• London: Cost of Living Sammy Gecsoyler / The Guardian
• Bucharest: Pride Luiza Ilie and Endre Hermann / Reuters (London)
• Buenos Aires: Antifascism Pablo Meriguet / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
• Nairobi: End Police Murder Emmanuel Igunza / NPR (Washington DC)
• Bogotá: Labor Rights / Al Jazeera (Doha)
• Sydney: Justice for Kumanjayi White Isaac Nellist / Green Left (Sydney)
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Indian Parties Denounce Modi Attacks on Maoists
ML Update (New Delhi)
In a joint move reflecting growing alarm over escalating state violence in Chhattisgarh, five Left parties have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 9 demanding an immediate halt to extra-judicial killings being carried out under the guise of “Operation Kagar”.
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Anticommunism in Czechia
Pavel Šplíchal / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
The Czech Chamber of Deputies approved the de facto criminalisation of the communist movement and its propagation. Anti-communism is usually popular in Czechia, but it has fallen flat this time. It no longer functions even as a caricature of the fight for freedom against authoritarianism.
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Uganda: Opposition to Pipeline
Elodie Toto / Equal Times (Brussels)
“We will keep protesting until our demands are met,” says Ibrahim Mpiima, team leader of Justice Movement Uganda, a student-led protest group of around a hundred members opposing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP)—the world’s longest heated oil pipeline.
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Dan Gallin (1931-2025)
Peter Rossman / Global Labor Column (Johannesburg)
Dan Gallin, former general secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations, passed away at his home in Geneva, Switzerland, on 31 May at the age of 94. His many decades of militant commitment leave a rich legacy upon which to build.