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

• Our History

  Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China

  14 June 2016, by Charlie Hore

  It’s 40 years since workers, students and school-students broke the oppressive regime that had come out of the Cultural Revolution in China and forced a change of direction on their rulers with mass protests in the spring of 1976.

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• Part Two of the series “Greece and debt: two centuries of interference from creditors”

  Continued debt slavery from the late 19th century to the Second World War

  13 June 2016, by Éric Toussaint

  This series of articles analyses Greece’s major debt crises by placing them in the international economic and political context, an approach that is systematically absent from the dominant narrative and very rarely present in critical analyses. Since 1826, a series of major debt crises have profoundly marked the lives of the Greek people. Each time, European Powers formed a coalition to impose new debts in order to repay the earlier ones. This coalition of Powers dictated policies to Greece that corresponded to their own interests and those of the few big private banks and large fortunes. Each time, those policies were aimed at extracting the tax resources necessary for repayment of the debt and entailed a reduction in social spending as well as decreased public investments. In a variety of ways, Greece and the Greek people were denied the exercise of their own sovereignty. With the complicity of the Greek ruling classes, this kept Greece in a subordinate, peripheral condition.

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• Part I of the series “Greece and debt: two centuries of interference from creditors”

  Newly Independent Greece had an Odious Debt round her Neck

  11 June 2016, by Éric Toussaint

  Since 2010, Greece has been the centre of attention. Yet this debt crisis, mainly the work of private banks, is nothing new in the history of independent Greece. The lives of Greeks have been blighted by major debt crises no less than four times since 1826. Each time, the European powers have connived together to force Greece to contract new debts to repay the previous ones. This coalition of powers dictated policies to Greece that served their own interests and those of a few big private banks they favoured. Each time, those policies were designed to free up enough fiscal resources to service the debt by reducing social spending and public investment. Thus Greece and her people have, in a variety of ways, been denied the exercise of their sovereign rights, keeping Greece down with the status of a subordinate, peripheral country. The local ruling classes complied with this.

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• Sexual Politics

  Fatema Mernissi: A Pioneering Arab Muslim Feminist

  10 June 2016, by Zakia Salime

  Zakia Salime is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. This tribute is to Fatema Mernissi: mentor, insightful teacher, organic intellectual, incisive feminist, powerful voice, charismatic presence, craftswoman, generous host, and friend. It appeared on Jadaliyya and is reprinted here with the permission of the author and Jadaliyya.

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