I wrote this about the student protests in Serbia at the beginning of last year, for @NewLeftReview Sidecar. Re-sharing because a few people have asked about the background and because it's my favorite thing I wrote about the protests newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…

Lula's victory a huge triumph for the Left in the whole continent. At a dinner in New York tonight ar Rashid and Mona Khalidi's apartment, a guest interrupted to shout 'Lula's won. !' Toasts and much applause. Good for Brazil. Good for the cause of Palestine. Good for Mexico and Latin America as a whole. Will post on substack tomorrow. Next: the mid-terms.

Brezilya'da yeniden seçilen Lula'dan ilk mesaj: Kimsenin arka bahçesi olmayacağız birgun.net/haber/brezilya-da…

Bolsonaro lost!!! I was a little desperate after the first round but still trusted my Brazilian comrades! This is not the victory of Lula, but of those on the ground who worked like hell during the last three weeks to turn things around. Yet it’s not game over for Brazilian far-rightists yet. Compared to their Turkish, Indian, Israeli, and Hungarian counterparts, they have a crappy project (I’m explaining this in my forthcoming book). However, PT/Lula have seriously degenerated during the last 10-15 years and prepared the ground for Bolsonarism’s weak project to make such headway. In the coming years, the struggle will not be primarily between Bolsonaro and Lula (who is a man of the past) but between far rightists who will strive to go beyond the current weaknesses of the far right and the more dynamic forces of the Brazilian left -- those that have been trying to reorganize the favelas, workers, and peasants. This immense majority of the Brazilian people have fallen into either apathy after 2010, or into the hands of the Evangelicals (who, by the way, were not entirely on the far right until only recently … yet another field the center and the left lost due to their disorientation). Do PSOL and kindred forces have the capacity to pull this off? There are many actors and groups in these circles who have the skills and vision to do so, but there are also serious structural and subjective impediments (such as the ongoing influence of Lulismo itself). Brazil will remain one of the key countries to follow in the whole world because if the left can reorganize here despite these impediments, that development will constitute a major inspiration for the rest of the globe.

Sırbistan'da ACAYİP bir olay oldu. İki senedir sokakta gösteri yapan öğrenciler muhalefeti beğenmeyip seçimlere katıldı. Forumlarda tartışarak vekil listesi oluşturdular. Ve şimdi seçimleri kazandılar 12 senelik iktidar devrildi. Bugün hikayeyi yazmıştım. serbestiyet.com/featured/sir…