1. Brazil Election: Three Takes
2. Thoughts from Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa
3. Eruptions at French High Schools
4. Indigenous Climate Solutions
5. When Cable Street Drove Out Mosley’s Fascists
6. Movement Against Gender Violence Grows
7. Spain Stands Up to Housing Regime
8. Navigating Kurdish Unity
9. PSM in Malaysia
10. Rosa’s Theory

Brazil Election: Three Takes

Not Inevitable   Antonio Martins / Labor Politics (New Brunswick)

A Blood-Red Tide   Andre Pagliarini / Dissent (New York)

Environmental Alert   Gabriela Sá Pessoa /  ICT (Phoenix) 

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Thoughts from Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa

Thapelo Mohapi / Amandla! (Cape Town)

We have a deep political education that we go through before anyone becomes a member of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Our vision is to struggle for a just and equal society where everyone is treated with respect, and their dignity is recognised. We are not saying South African. We are not saying African. We are saying human dignity of all humankind.

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Eruptions at French High Schools

William Bouchardon / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

It only took a spark to set France ablaze. High school protests broke out in France as the new school year had barely begun. As the movement tries to spread to universities, the authorities have only one answer: repression, and accusations against La France insoumise (LFI).

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Indigenous Climate Solutions

Adrianne Lickers Xavier and Hiliary Monteith / Open Access Government (Cheshire UK)

For many Indigenous peoples, the relationships between food, land, water, health, and climate are inherent to cultural understandings and lived experiences. What is changing is not necessarily the existence of this knowledge, but policy and research institutions’ willingness to recognize it as knowledge that informs solutions.

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When Cable Street Drove Out Mosley’s Fascists

Steve Silver / Searchlight (Essex)

Grass roots working class leaders saw that the battle had to be fought not only physically but also by showing the under privileged and oppressed people in inner city slums that fascism was not the answer. Oswald Mosley’s support really started to wane when communists, Jews and trade unionists banded together to fight slum landlords where Mosley had been most successful in recruiting.

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Movement Against Gender Violence Grows

Students in India   Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan / The Guardian (London)

South Africa   Jabulile Mbatha / GroundUp (Cape Town)

Croatia   Vuk Tesija / Balkan Insight (Sarajevo)

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Spain Stands Up to Housing Regime

María del Vigo and Miriam Bue / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

In Madrid the political landscape has been turned on its head. Public outrage over the attempted eviction of a 87-year-old woman in Madrid from the apartment she had lived in since 1953 brought tens of thousands of people across Spain to the streets demanding measures to alleviate rising rent.

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Navigating Kurdish Unity

Sarah Glynn / News From Kurdistan (Strasbourg)

One of the achievements of the revolution in Rojava has been the insistence on cultural freedom for all ethnic groups, not just the Kurds. How can this universality sit alongside the concept of Kurdish unity? And how can the representatives of a system that takes inspiration from the communitarian ideas of Murray Bookchin form a unity with the feudal and materialist society of Erbil?

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PSM in Malaysia

Dashran Yohan and Jeyakumar Devaraj / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

If a progressive government came to power and told manufacturers to raise wages 20% a year for three years, they would face capital flight — the factories would move to Vietnam or Indonesia. We are producing value that leaves the country unrecorded. Most of our political parties do not seem to recognise that we have been economically recolonised.

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Rosa’s Theory

Ronald Grigor Suny / Historical Materialism (London)