International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Nigeria

  Spontaneous uprising in Nigeria

  16 November, by Klaus Engert

  “The rage broke its way through.”

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• European Union
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  EU SURE initiative: saving jobs or pleasing investors?

  15 November, by Herman Michiel, Klaus Dräger

  When the European Commission finally realized that something serious was going on with corona, it launched, among other things, an initiative to support short-time work schemes, as Germany did as a reaction to the 2007/9 ‘financial crisis’. Similar measures were introduced in many EU countries at national level to cope with the economic and social effects of the pandemic.
  On 2 April the EU launched SURE. The idea was that member states could take out cheap loans to financially support (...)

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• Latin America

  Dead ends and limits of progressive governments

  14 November, by Franck Gaudichaud

  With the collapse of the USSR, the end of history was announced without delay. Nothing seemed to be able to stem the neoliberal global tidal wave, when the Zapatista uprising in Mexico erupted in 1994. Five years later, Chávez took power in Venezuela : it was the beginning of a long process of rupture, through the ballot box, on the Latin American continent - Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador, Mujica in Uruguay… part of the Western radical left then turned its gaze, not without hope, to the other side of the South Atlantic. Two decades later, what balance sheet can we draw? Successes and limits, contradictions and specificities.

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• Women’s rights in Poland

  Women’s revolution after attack on reproductive rights

  13 November, by J.D. and Z.R.

  “In theory, women’s rights activists in small towns are the easiest to attack because they lack a large social and media base. They are already threatened with sentences of up to eight years in prison, dismissal or various forms of ostracism. But they are also strong people who, in these exceptional circumstances, can count on the solidarity of an unprecedented movement across Poland. It seems that one of the most important slogans of the rampant Polish revolution – “You will never go alone again” - this time finds its confirmation in reality.”

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• France

  When calls for solidarity mask the steady advance of unpaid work

  12 November, by Elsa Sabado

  On 16 March 2020, as France was about to put its population into lockdown, the Education Ministry posted a serious message on its website : “The exceptional nature of the health crisis spreading across our country calls for an exceptional level of commitment from each and every one of us”. A few days later, on 1 April, 250,000 French citizens had put themselves forward to join the newly created ‘civilian reserve’. The response to this appeal for a show of “goodwill” was not so much a reflection (...)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Portugal

  2021 Portuguese State Budget: Bloco de Esquerda will vote against the document

• France

  Open Letter: the threat of academic authoritarianism – international solidarity with antiracist academics in France

• USA presidential elections

  After the Trumpster Fire

• Puerto RIco

  A reflection on the Puerto Rican elections

• USA presidential elections

  Whoever Wins, This Election Is Not the End of Trumpism

Recently posted Debate

• Debate: Libya/Italy

  Stop the bombing, support the revolutions, no to the dictators and to repression, rights for migrants.

  9 April 2011, by Sinistra Critica (Critical Left)

  One just has to look at what is happening in Lampedusa to see the hypocrisy of the war manoeuvres in Libya. Western governments, led by France, the USA, Great Britain and followed by Italy, have been ready to bomb in order to protect the Arab people from Gaddafi’s dictatorship. This is the same dictatorship, which the West had praised, recognised and sold arms to, in exchange for generous, guaranteed contracts for energy resources and assurances over the control of migration from Africa. (...)

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• Debate: Libya/Pakistan

  Statement on NATO attacks on Libya

  9 April 2011, by Pakistan Left Parties

  While it is accepted that Gaddafi and his model of ruling is autocratic and repressive and cannot be supported by any progressive grouping a few things also need to be stated about NATO and its discourse of humanitarian intervention and let us state them clearly:

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• Debate: Libya/Britain

  Socialist Resistance adopt statements on Arab revolutions and Libya

  7 April 2011, by Socialist Resistance

  Socialist Resistance, British section of the Fourth International, held a successful and well attended national conference on the 2nd/3rd April 2011, with a session on the impact of the Arab revolutions and the imperialist intervention in Libya. Two resolutions were adopted on the Arab revolutions which are below.

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• Debate: Libya, the resistance, the no-fly zone

  On No Fly Zones as a form of External Military Intervention

  5 April 2011, by Achin Vanaik

  What are the different arguments surrounding the debate on no-fly zones? Should foreign powers ever claim the right to intervene or should the people of a country overthrow their own dictators? Do interventionists not always have alterior motives that could undermine the people’s sovereignty over their struggle and it’s outcomes

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