Global Left Midweek — August 27, 2025
- 13 Million Mexicans Rescued From Poverty
- Social Media Unleashes Protest in Indonesia
- Ukraine and the US Left
- The Pan American Congress
- New E-book: Manifesto of the Socialist Movement
- New Direction For the South African CP
- Does the Israeli Left Have a Future?
- Reports From Europe
- Ecosocialism and Degrowth
- Marx and the German Constitution
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13 Million Mexicans Rescued From Poverty
Jorge Rodríguez-Jiménez / mitú (Los Angeles)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated the number of those out of poverty due to AMLO’s policies. The Mexican government created multiple policies aimed at addressing the nation’s poverty rates. Mexicans over 65 years old receive a bimonthly transfer of 6,200 pesos ($330) is the most direct line of help.
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Social Media Unleashes Protest in Indonesia
Tempo English (Jakarta)
NEWS of a large-scale demonstration in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building on Monday, August 25, initiated by a movement calling itself the “Indonesian People’s Revolution,” has circulated on social media. They call on civil society groups, including workers, farmers, and students, to take to the streets.
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Ukraine and the US Left
Ilya Budraitskis and Tanya Vyhovsky / Posle
Allowing Ukraine to fall is not a movement toward anti-militarism. It’s a movement toward anti-democracy. Asking a sovereign nation to give up its land, to be occupied, to once again live under the oppressive occupying force of another country — that is not peace.
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The Pan American Congress
Valeria Duarte Galleguillos / NACLA Report (New York)
The annual Pan American Congress, in its second edition, was held from August 1st to 3rd in the vicinity of the National Palace and the Senate of the Mexican Republic. For three days, participants analyzed the crises presented by fascism and brainstormed strategies for combating them.
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New E-book: Manifesto of the Socialist Movement
Michael Hauser / transform! Europe (Vienna)
Manifesto of the Socialist Movement by Czech philosopher, educator, and Marxist thinker Michael Hauser offers a clear, principled alternative far-right populism: a renewed socialism grounded in democratic values, historical reflection, and class analysis.
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New Direction For the South African CP
Brian Ashley / Zabalaza for Socialism
The South African Communist Party’s (SACP) decision to stand independently of the African National Congress (ANC) in the coming local government elections deserves to be welcomed. The fact that the SACP has now resolved to stand on its own represents a potential step forward.
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Does the Israeli Left Have a Future?
Gil Shohat / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The protest camp, which had been in a state of extreme exhaustion, has been reinvigorated. Demonstrations are becoming more frequent, slogans more pointed, and the suffering of the Palestinians is slowly finding its way into the dominant liberal circles of the pro-ceasefire protest movement against the government.
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Reports From Europe
• Serbia: Mass Protests A.G.A. / Mašina (Belgrade)
• Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win Laura Montanari and Jonathan Rosenblum / Truthout (Sacramento)
• New Party in UK Zarah Sultana and Oliver Eagleton / New Left Review (London)
• Armenia: Making of Wildcat Miners Strike Knar Khudoyan / Long-Haul (Santa Cruz CA)
• Dutch Left Ahead of Elections Jouke Huijzer / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
• Czechia: On the Climate Crisis Michaela Pixová / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
• Euro Left’s Hard Times Matt Myers / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
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Ecosocialism and Degrowth
Michael Löwy / Monthly Review (New York)
The ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the twenty-first century, and will become even more so in the coming months and years. The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be decided in the coming decades.
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Marx and the German Constitution
Harici.com.tr (Istanbul)
On April 8, the “Marxist School of Politics and Culture Forum” (Masch) won its case against the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in the Hamburg Administrative Court. But this legal victory could backfire like a boomerang and pose a danger to all Marx reading circles in Germany.