Global Left Midweek — April 22, 2026
- Venezuelans Hit the Streets
- International Meetings
- A Million Demand EU End Support for Israel
- Left Enters Runoff Race in Peru
- Countering Africa’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
- Breakthroughs in India
- Care Givers Strike in Nova Scotia
- The Fierce Activism of Deborah Poole
- Haitians Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Anti-Imperialism and Rising Fascism
Eduardo Sánchez and Federico Fuentes / Links (Sydney)
Today our people are reacting against a bad government, which, in the name of the left, implemented a policy of neoliberal, capitalist and pro-business austerity. A government that betrayed the principles of socialism and installed an anti-worker dictatorship, one that is corrupt and complacent towards the business sectors. It is not the right wing that is protesting, but ordinary people.
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• Global Progressive Mobilisation Antonio O'Mullony / Brussels Signal
• Party of the European Left (Video)
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A Million Demand EU End Support for Israel
Melike Pala / Anadolu Ajansı (Ankara)
Members of the European Parliament urged the EU to act after a European Citizens’ Initiative calling for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement surpassed one million signatures, describing the campaign as a “mass movement” reflecting widespread public demand to stop the war.
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Left Enters Runoff Race in Peru
France 24 (Paris)
Left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez moved into second place in Peru’s presidential election, setting up a June runoff with conservative Keiko Fujimori, as a rival threatened protests over alleged fraud. With over 90% counted, Fujimori led with about 17%, followed by Sanchez on 12% and Rafael Lopez Aliaga on 11.9%.
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Countering Africa’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
Morgan Ofori / The Guardian (London)
There has been a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation across a number of African countries that already have strict sexuality laws. LGBTQ+ people and activists are fighting against the narrative that their identities are an imported “western” creation. They relate the impact of these new laws, why they are happening, and how foreign lobbying groups are pushing for more draconian laws.
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Breakthroughs in India
• Left Front Campaigns in West Bengal Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
• Workers’ Fury in Noida / The Wire (New Delhi)
• The Kerala Consensus Kushanava Choudhury / Dissent (New York)
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Care Givers Strike in Nova Scotia
Willy Palov / The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
Emotions always run high during strikes but feelings are especially raw for thousands of long-term care workers in Nova Scotia. Many of the 2,000-plus unionized nursing home and residential care employees walking picket lines around the province are feeling like the demanding work they normally do is not appreciated by the provincial government.
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The Fierce Activism of Deborah Poole
Bret Gustafson and Christy Thornton / NACLA (New York)
Deborah Poole, on the NACLA editorial committee, frequently wrote for the Report on the Americas and later the website. Debbie’s voice lives on in this work, as a small but meaningful part of her broader scholarly and political legacy. A fiery commitment to rigorous analysis and to righteous indignation in the face of neoliberal and right-wing violence ran through all of Debbie’s work.
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Haitians Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Robert Roth / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)
Haitians have always resisted tyranny, from the time they overthrew slavery, defeated Napoleon’s army, and declared the world’s first Black republic in 1804. Today, communities have risen to defend themselves from paramilitary attacks, despite the high-powered weapons in the hands of the death squads.
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Anti-Imperialism and Rising Fascism
Sushovan Dhar / Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (Liège)
Solidarity among peoples cannot remain abstract. It must be built through concrete forms of cooperation: joint campaigns against debt and austerity, solidarity with migrants and refugees, resistance to militarisation and war, defence of labour rights, and protection of democratic freedoms. Internationalism is therefore not merely an ethical commitment. It is a political necessity.