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Global Left Midweek - February 6, 2019

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Labor: Europeans Talk Strategy, Canadians Oppose Venezuela Coup Threat. Streets: Yellow Vests, Sudan, Russia. Jungle: Ecuador's Indigenous. And a New Appreciation of Rosa

France’s Class Wars

Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert Le Monde Diplomatique
The working class was supposed to have been edged out of active politics, but instead France’s elites have been frightened into making concessions by this winter’s uprising of the yellow vests.

A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Siobhan Roberts Quanta Magazine
The Brazilian mathematician Carolina Araujo, who calls herself “a bit of an anarchist,” is organizing meetings and building a support network to study and solve the problems women face in mathematics.

Communists Against the Mafia

Marta Fana Convergence
The battle against the Sicilian Mafia wasn't won by cops and judges — it was won by communists and labor militants.

How Star Wars Came to Alaska

Jeffrey St. Clair CounterPunch
It’s the old Cold War routine repeated once again: The money goes south, but the risk and the waste stays up in Alaska.
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