International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Zambia

  Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

  1 May, by Paul Martial

  Despite recurring environmental disasters and the dangers to the population, the government of Zambia continues its extractivist policy. The southern African country has once again been hit by major pollution. 50 million tonnes of acidic sludge were discharged into the watercourse running alongside the Chinese company Sino Metals in Chambishi, which processes copper ores.

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• USA

  Trump and America: One-hundred days in the waiting room of fascism

  30 April, by Dan La Botz

  Since taking office 100 days ago, President Donald Trump has been engaged in destroying America’s liberal, democratic state and its social welfare systems, taking away citizens’ and non-citizens’ rights, and attacking the institutions of civil society such as universities and the media. Trump’s attack on our government and our society has shocked, disoriented, and disconcerted the American people. The resistance has been growing, but is still too divided, small, and weak to stop Trump

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• Argentina

  Argentina: opposition to Milei revives

  29 April, by Elias Vola

  After many months without a significant opposition movement to the government of President Javier Milei on the streets of Argentina, the 36-hour cross-industry strike of 9-10 April and the social reality of the country have brought the movement back to life.

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• Greece

  Greece: anger in the streets

  28 April, by Andreas Sartzekis

  The nationwide mobilization in Greece on 9 April, called by GSEE (the only private-sector confederation), ADEDY (the only public-sector federation) and the entire trade union network, was the measure of social anger, even if the huge rallies of 28 February (at least 1.5 million in the streets across the country) were a long way off.

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• USA

  Trump reinvents war capitalism

  27 April, by William Donaura

  Believing that the United States is being mistreated in international trade, Trump, speaking before an audience of auto union members gathered at the White House, announced measures that would amount to nothing less than a declaration of economic independence...

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Palestine

  We need to talk about Gaza more than ever

• Sudan

  The Other Catastrophe: Genocide and Famine in Sudan

• Ecology

  Agriculture: Our proposals for small-scale farming

• USA

  Bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego García

• Turkey

  ‘Well dug, old mole!": Mass resistance in Turkey

Recently posted Features

• Part 10 of Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  Genoa (1922): proposals and, counter-proposals on the Tsarist debt

  8 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  On 20 April 1922, Chicherin announced the Soviet response to the Western powers’ proposals of 15 April. It indicated that: “The Russian delegation are still of the opinion that the present economic condition of Russia and the circumstances which are responsible for it should fully justify the complete release of Russia from all her liabilities mentioned in the above proposals by the recognition of her counter-claims”.

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• Part 8 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  In 1922 creditor powers again attempt to subjugate the Soviets

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Western governments presented a full list of demands aimed at solving in their favour the litigation over debt repudiation and expropriations decreed by the Soviet government. Those demands were presented in Genoa on 15 April 1922, five days into the conference, in a document entitled “London Experts’ Report on the Russian issue.” [1]

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• Part 7 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  Diplomatic manoeuvers around Russian debt repudiation

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  For five weeks in April and May 1922, a summit conference was held. Britain’s prime minister, Lloyd George, played a central role in it, as did Louis Barthou, the minister of the French president Raymond Poincaré.

  The main aim of the meeting was to persuade Soviet Russia [2] both to acknowledge the debts it had repudiated in 1918 and to cease calling for a global revolution.

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• Part 6 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  Russian loans never die

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Even though Russian bonds were repudiated by the Soviet government in February 1918, they were still traded right up until the 1990s.

  French government policy and that of other governments was directly related to this life after death.

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