It is with great sadness that the Intenational Viewpoint team has learnt of the sudden death at his new home in Chiapas, Mexico of the first editor of International Viewpoint, Gerry Foley.
“A politically sovereign and progressive decision”
21 April 2012, byThe Argentine Government has just expropriated 51% of the shares of the Spanish multinational Repsol, majority partner in the historic Argentine oil company, Yacimientos PetrolÃferos Fiscales (YPF), completely privatized during the 1990s. As in the case of the flagship airline Aerolineas Argentinas (AA), YPF was stripped of its assets by private capitalists. It is therefore a necessary measure in the face of the sharp fall in reserves and production of oil and gas necessitating expensive energy imports, but at the same time it is insufficient and limited because it does not cover the entire oil industry and is an expropriation accompanied by payment.
Success for appeal from Nava Sama Samaja Party
7 April 2012UPDATE: The two comrades of the Frontline Socialist Party, Premakumar Gunarathnam and Dimuthu Attygale have both been released within the last few hours of Monday 9th night / Tuesday 10th morning.
George Galloway wins parliamentary seat
6 April 2012, byGeorge Galloway, the former Labour MP, who broke with the party on oppositon to the war in Iraq in 2003, was re-elected to parliament in the northern England town of Bradford.
Police shoot explosives at student protesters’ heads in Montreal
19 March 2012Scott Weinstein is a Montreal-based nurse. He submitted this to Campus notes on 16 March 2012.
Hello from the occupied hospital in Kilkis
12 March 2012“This occupation is not only about us, the physicians and the workers
at the Kilkis Hospital. Neither is it only about the Greek National
Health System, which is collapsing, indeed. We are in this fight
because what is in real danger now is the human rights and our lives.
And this threat is not against just a nation, or against a few
countries, or a few social groups, but against the low and middle
classes in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, in the whole world.”
Striking Somid Company Port workers arrested and tortured by the Egyptian Police and will stand before the Military Court
10 March 2012Five workers at Somid Company Port in Ain Sukhna, Suez - east Cairo have been beaten and tortured by security forces personnel at the police station in Attaqa after they have been arrested by the military forces during the workers’ strike, which started last Wednesday.
Support for the Greek people
24 February 2012The Fiom-Cgil Central Committee express its total solidarity to the greek workers struggling against the austerity measures imposed by the Troika and accepted by the greek parliament.
Major anti-nuclear conference in Japan calls international day of action
17 February 2012, byOn January 14-15 2012 more than 10,000 participants from more than 30 countries attended a Global conference for a nuclear free world in Yokohama, Japan. More than 100 guest speakers addressed the conference which included those who had witnessed the disaster of Chernobyl in 1986 and the US nuclear test site on Marshall Islands as well as Fukushima. Attendance from other Asian countries was particularly noticeable but it also included a significant number of European and Australian visitors.
Greek hospital now under workers’ control !
9 February 2012Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.
