Global Left Midweek — June 25, 2025
- Resistance Works
- Perspectives on The War
- Against Overtourism
- The Fight to Stop Big Oil In Congo
- Rome Alive With Protest
- Indigenous-Led Environmental Movements Face Repression
- UK Disabled Movement Confronts Parliament
- Prisoners’ Families in El Salvador
- Is France’s New Popular Front Over?
- Gaza Convoy and Pan-African Solidarity
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Resistance Works
David Vine / TomDispatch (New York)
Look no further than Mauritius for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, we see the power of resistance and the ability of small groups of people to band together to overcome the powerful.
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Perspectives on The War
• Destructive Dreams Siyavash Shahabi / The Fire Next Time (Athens)
• Iran’s Fate Hamid Mohseni / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
• DC Desperate for Hegemony Prof. Dr. Abbas Vali and Serkan Demirel / ANF News (Amsterdam)
• The Unravelling Global Order Ahilan Kadirgamar / Daily Mirror (Colombo)
• Hurtling Into the Void Nesrine Malik / The Guardian (London)
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Against Overtourism
Olivia Haber Greenwood / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
A growing coalition in Portugal, Italy and Spain is challenging the many harmful effects of mass tourism — and calling for a new economic model.
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The Fight to Stop Big Oil In Congo
Alexandria Shaner and François Kamate / Z (Boston)
A young climate and human rights defender from the Democratic Republic of Congo discusses how a growing coalition is working to prevent the detonation of a massive carbon bomb and the plunder of communities – and how you can help.
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Rome Alive With Protest
• Pride Michele Gambirasi / il manifesto Global (Rome)
• Peace Ana Vračar / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
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Indigenous-Led Environmental Movements Face Repression
Lorena Bally / Prism (Oakland)
Worldwide, governments and corporations are escalating their legal strategies, under the guise of national security or economic growth, to suppress Indigenous-led environmental movements.
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UK Disabled Movement Confronts Parliament
John Pring / Disability News Servise (London)
Disabled activists say they “will not give a single inch” in their resistance to billions of pounds of cuts confirmed yesterday by the Labour government in its new universal credit and personal independence payment bill.
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Prisoners’ Families in El Salvador
Grazzia Grimaldi and Yanci López / NACLA Report (New York)
In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.
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Is France’s New Popular Front Over?
Harrison Stetler / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
One year since the New Popular Front won a surprise election victory, France’s left looks more divided than ever. This month’s Socialist congress showed how much the party is at loggerheads with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise.
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Gaza Convoy and Pan-African Solidarity
Joy Wang / Africa is a Country (New York)
The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.