Global Left Midweek — November 4, 2026
- Dockworkers Down Tools for Palestine
- Die Linke Berlin Conference
- Italy on Strike
- Another Week of Mass Protests
- International Convoy to Ukraine
- More on Lula’s Win
- Serbia’s Amazing Breakthrough
- Disability Justice in Africa
- The Total Strike in France
- Communist Guerrillas in the Philippines
Dockworkers Down Tools for Palestine
Rahul Maganti and Siddharth Chakravarthy / The Wire (New Delhi)
Seafarers, dock and port workers in across more than 100 ports around the world are taking part in different forms of direct action ranging from 24-hour strikes to two-hour work stoppages. This unprecedented scale of mobilisation is unheard of in the recent past and is spread across from North Europe to South Asia, with the Mediterranean ports playing a crucial role as hubs for war cargo.
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Mateo Moreno / The Latin Times (Montgomery)
Six weeks after its landmark Berlin election victory, Die Linke authorized formal coalition negotiations with the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) — a step that could install Elif Eralp as the city’s first governing mayor from an immigrant family background.
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Italy on Strike
The Details / Italien.news (North Tyrol, Italy)
Taking Back the Streets Giuliano Santoro and Rita Rapisardi / il manifesto Global (Rome)
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Another Week of Mass Protests
Colombia W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)
Germany / Al Jazeera (Doha)
India Adil Bhat / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
Israel Noam Lehmann / The Times of Israel (Jerusalem)
Kosovo Zana Cimili / ABC News (New York)
Peru JMVR / teleSUR (Caracas)
Portugal Manuel Fuentes / EFE (Madrid)
Spain Mehk Chakraborty / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
Tunisia / Al Jazeera
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International Convoy to Ukraine
Alfons Bech and Dick Nichols / Green Left (Sydney)
In this situation of extreme need, we know that any help the convoy can provide, while useful, will be a drop in the ocean. That is one potent reason why the convoy must have an extra, political, dimension, as a public and visible show of support from the working people of the rest of Europe to their sisters and brothers in Ukraine.
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More on Lula’s Win
Nuts and Bolts Andre Pagliarini / NACLA (New York)
Lula Continua Forrest Hylton / London Review of Books
Lula’s Army Alessandra Freitas / CNN (Atlanta)
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Vladimir Simović / European Left (Brussels)
For years, the dominant view in Serbia held that young people were politically inert, disengaged and indifferent, more likely to emigrate than to organise. But young people were not indifferent. The existing political structures had simply become too narrow to respond to a new time and new demands.
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Mildred Omino / Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
Disability activists on the African continent have been advocating for recognition of the rights of disabled persons in all spheres of life for quite some time. Individuals with psychosocial disabilities have been institutionalised and confined in healing centres in several African countries, including Ghana, Uganda and Kenya.
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The Total Strike in France
Macron’s Crisis Frédéric Lordon / Tribune (London)
General Strike Looms / France 24 (Paris)
Doing It With Culture Michaela Haas / Reasons to be Cheerful (New York)
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Communist Guerrillas in the Philippines
Nathan Gilbert Quimpo / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
After the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1993, many doubted that the communist insurgency waged by the CPP and its New People’s Army (NPA) would ever recover. But it did, even surpassing the peak armed strength achieved in the 1980s, first in 2005 then again in 2017. Now it has fallen into a slump, in fact, into the most serious crisis in its entire 58-year history.