International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world

  16 December, by Ana C. Carvalhaes

  Openly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump’s national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.

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• USA

  Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract

  15 December, by Dan La Botz

  Thousands of Starbucks workers continue their fight for a union contract with strikes and rallies across the country. The latest strike began on November 13 and continues off-and-on at stores across the country. In mid-December some 3,800 Starbucks baristas were on strike at more than 180 stores in over 130 cities. The union, Starbucks Workers United claims a total 14,000 members at about 650 stores.

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• France

  1995, the year of the social movement

  14 December, by Hélène Adam

  “Thirty years ago, the largest mass mobilization since May 68 thwarted the Juppé Plan, the public sector pension plan, and clearly stood in defence of a model of society based on solidarity and public service.”

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• Syria

  Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition

  13 December, by Joseph Daher

  Syria’s post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa.

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• Indonesia

  Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power

  12 December, by Pierre Rousset

  Cyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny.
  A week after the cyclone passed, it is still impossible to measure the full extent of the devastation in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. At least 961 people have lost their lives, with nearly 300 still missing, over 156,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, (…)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  Fighting for the Least Unjust Peace

• International Anti-Fascist Conference

  Launch of the International Committee for the Anti-Fascist and for the Sovereignty of Peoples Conference

• Morocco

  GenZ 212 movement in Morocco

• USA

  Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance

• Poland

  Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland

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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