Who Is Ukraine’s Recovery Really For?More than two hundred businesses were present at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland, at the end of June, eighty-two of them from Ukraine. But out of Ukraine’s eighty-three sectoral trade unions, none had so much as a stall, let alone a seat on a main panel. That asymmetry is telling; and for Ukrainian activists, taking part in the conference was something of a cold shower.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ukraine-workers-labor-code-warBeyond “Trumpification”: Latin America’s Deepening Organic CrisesA widely held view, especially in the mainstream media, interprets the recent electoral results in Peru and Colombia as though all of Latin America could be painted with the same brush, reducing the region’s political landscape to a single story: the rise of the Right. The Economist, for example, claims Latin America is “going Trumpy.” But what we are actually seeing is massive polarization, which is leading to extraordinarily close general elections. In Peru, Keiko Fujimori won by a razor-thin margin of 0.3 percent (just 49,641 votes), with the difference coming mainly from overseas votes, particularly those from the United States. Her center-left opponent, Roberto Sánchez, has denounced the results as fraud, calling for protests. Fujimori will be the country’s ninth president in ten years, amid a deep political crisis. In Colombia, right-wing Trump admirer Abelardo de la Espriella won following an extremely polarized election. However, his opponent, Iván Cepeda, has stated he will call for “civil resistance” if the president-elect does not renounce his U.S. citizenship. Trump’s support in Colombia and votes from overseas residents in the case of Peru appear to have tipped the election in favor of the Right by a very narrow margin. However, from 2015 to the present, there have been 25 presidential elections in South America, and in 18 of them — over 70 percent — the respective ruling parties were defeated. The Right’s recent electoral victories must be understood within this polarized, contradictory context in order to draw lessons for how to defeat these reactionary forces.
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