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More than a century has passed since the founding of the Lebanese Communist Party, along with a long history of sacrifices and disappointments, of struggle and confusion.

But the question today is: What remains of the Left when it turns into a memory?

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The financial plan claims to protect small depositors but unfairly penalizes those with slightly larger savings, using time and complex rules to reduce real value and delay access. Heirs and joint accounts face extra difficulties, while “financial innovations” often benefit banks more than people. Most losses fall on depositors, with banks and authorities avoiding responsibility. True justice requires fair valuations, real rights, and timely payments—not endless delays that harm ordinary citizens.

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The debate over deposits in Lebanon sounds like a complex academic discussion, but in reality, it masks a slow, deliberate theft of people’s savings. While officials talk about protecting small depositors, those with slightly more are punished, and the elderly face long delays. The banks and the state work together to protect their interests, leaving ordinary citizens to bear the cost. Promises of recovery stretch over years, but in the end, depositors lose most of their money and dignity. True justice requires breaking this alliance of power and money, as deposits represent not just numbers, but people’s lives.

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Lebanon has spent eighty years shaped by wars and narratives that treated it as an arena for others’ conflicts rather than a sovereign state. The recent war proved that the country and its economy can no longer bear this role. Entering negotiations does not mean choosing normalization or surrender, but seeking survival through restoring the authority of the state, strengthening the army, clarifying borders, and gaining Arab and international support. Sovereignty today means protecting people’s lives and building a state of stability instead of a state of frontlines.

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The article critiques a recent pessimistic view of the left as dead and irrelevant, arguing instead that despite its struggles and failures, the left remains a vital and evolving force. It stresses that the left must overcome nostalgia for past institutions and slogans, address its internal weaknesses, and reconnect with both local and international struggles to renew itself as a genuine alternative. Real criticism should open paths for renewal, not declare defeat. History shows the left’s resilience, and its future depends on adapting to present realities with clear programs and values rooted in justice, citizenship, and solidarity.

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Lebanon is no longer negotiating from a position of choice, but from a position of collapse. What is presented as diplomacy is, in reality, the management of defeat, while sovereignty is postponed, traded, or erased under the name of reform.