International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Yemen

  The women’s uprising in Yemen

  8 June, by Luiza Toscane

  Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.

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• Italy

  Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

  7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista

  Italy votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.

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• Palestine

  Pity the people of Gaza!

  6 June, by Gilbert Achcar

  What we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement’s rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.

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• Belgium

  Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police

  5 June, by Elena Fernandez Fernandez

  On Monday afternoon, 2 June, in Elisabeth Park in Ganshoren, an 11-year-old child was struck and killed by a police vehicle. Another one. Once again, a young person has lost their life in a police operation. Once again, run over by a police officer. And once again, the institutions react coldly, relaying a version of events that incriminates the victim, while those responsible hide behind complicit investigations that generally lead nowhere.

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• USA

  Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder

  4 June, by Malik Miah

  “His murder led to nationwide and international protests and a reexamination of societal and institutional racism, including policing. Five years later what is the legacy of Floyd’s death and movement for justice and police accountability?”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Panama

  Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

• USA

  Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”

• Kurdistan

  Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives

• Mali

  A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

• Britain

  Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game

Recently posted Features

• Obituary

  Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist

  11 November 2019, by Brian Ashley

  According to Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish, a “mensch” is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. Other definitions define mensch as a person of honour and integrity.

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• Historical events

  India and the Colonial Debt

  10 October 2019, by Sushovan Dhar

  “The former Indian minister and a member of the parliament, Shashi Tharoor demanded Britain to pay reparations to India and other former colonies for its decades of imperial rule. He made the case in a debate entitled ‘This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies’, organised by the famous debating society, the Oxford Union in 2015.

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• Women

  The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right

  30 September 2019, by Cinzia Arruzza

  In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run the risk of jeopardizing the achievements of the gay rights movement and of opening the doors to a reactionary right on the rise:

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• Obituary

  Sergio, the irreplaceable comrade

  25 September 2019, by Gigi Malabarba

  Sergio d’Amia died on 16 September 2019. His mother, an Italian Communist Party activist under fascism, then in the Resistance, signed him up at the age of 10 for the Pioneers, the organisation for the youngest communists (organising youth up to the age of 15), after which they could go on to the Fgci (Federation of Italian Communist Youth).

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