Global Left Midweek — May 27, 2026
- Preparations to Defend Cuba
- Unions, Mass Organizations and the Left
- Haiti and the Black Radical Tradition
- Making the SACP Electorally Significant
- Global Sumud Flotilla Urges Probe of US Complicity
- Germany: Repression and Resistance
- Asia Focus
- Toronto’s Growing Tenant Revolt
- More on the Bolivia Upsurge
- Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Urooba Jamal / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Cuba’s system of national defence against meteorological disasters has been lauded by the United Nations and the World Health Organization for minimising casualties despite frequent extreme weather. Now, Havana is seeking to apply a similar model to a different threat: a possible United States military confrontation.
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Unions, Mass Organizations and the Left
Rezgar Akrawi / Links (Sydney)
People today, especially the new generations raised on a culture of instant access to information, horizontal organising and direct participation in decision-making, no longer accept being mobilised in the service of a specific party agenda. Real popular power today is built through rootedness in people’s daily lives and honest and effective representation of their interests.
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Haiti and the Black Radical Tradition
Johnny Celestin / NACLA (New York)
The Trump administration quickly began targeting immigrant communities and now presents a consistent pattern in which specific communities are judged according to a hierarchy of human value. Haiti, founded through Black liberation and sustained by resistance, directly challenges that worldview. It remains the only successful revolution by enslaved people in recorded history.
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Making the SACP Electorally Significant
Brian Ashley and Jeff Rudin / Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
With its upcoming Conference of the Left, the South African Communist Party must confront its history and embrace a more radical, anti-capitalist stance to effectively challenge the status quo.
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Global Sumud Flotilla Urges Probe of US Complicity
Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
Testimonies published Tuesday from activists, journalists, medical professionals, and others who took part in the latest international flotilla attempting to break Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza called for an investigation into US complicity in their illegal high-seas abduction and alleged torture, sexual assault, and other abuse by Israeli forces.
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Germany: Repression and Resistance
Spyro Marasovic / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Rote Hilfe is a German solidarity organization that aids people hit by state repression, such as anti-fascists. Recent moves to close its bank accounts are aimed at wrecking its activity, even though it hasn’t broken the law.
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Asia Focus
Japan: Saving The Pacifist Constitution / People’s Daily Online (Beijing)
Nepal’s Unfinished Revolution Sushovan Dhar / Alternative Viewpoint (Kolkata)
Sri Lanka: Imprints of Civil War Meera Srinivasan / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
The Rise and Fall of the Tibetan Communist Party Kalden Dhatsenpa / Lausan (Hong Kong)
CPI(M) Introspection Rajeev Ramachandran / The Federal (Chennai)
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Toronto’s Growing Tenant Revolt
Ken Theobald / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
Tenant movements are emerging globally as one of the most significant social movements of our era, demonstrating an ability to unite working-class people across all divides and develop a capacity not only to fight back collectively against predatory landlords, but also to win victories. The newly founded Toronto Tenant Union is the latest expression of that growing momentum.
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More on the Bolivia Upsurge
Video: Fury in the Streets / WION (Noida)
Regional Political Tension / BNamericas (Santiago de Chile)
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Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Felix Wemheuer / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
6 May 2026 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning of China’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”. The rebellion of the masses devolved into factional struggles and bloody civil wars in the provinces. Today, there are debates as to whether Mao’s primary concern was a campaign in the realm of cultural policy, or to camouflage a strategic maneuver to oust President Liu Shaoqi.