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

• May 1968

  1968: a “global moment”, the political commitment of a militant generation

  23 May 2018, by Pierre Rousset

  How can we make the decade 1965-1975 come alive again, how can we highlight what was at stake in the world and in France, its scope, our commitment, our activist universe? Through analysis certainly, but reinforced by lived experience, which is necessarily more personal. This is a delicate exercise, with a constant coming and going between general considerations, the transmission of a political history that is sometimes specific (that of my political current) and its individual, daily implications. To this end, I am mobilizing my own memories - and I am wary of memory and especially of mine, which I know is incomplete. I am therefore appealling for a confrontation of recollections (or archives) that could lead me to correct or qualify some of my remarks.

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• France

  The event itself and its effects... Looking back on May ‘68

  2 May 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  In 2008, in an interview with Francis Sitel for the journal Critique communiste (No. 188) Daniel Bensaïd looked back over the strategic debates which took place in May 1968, and especially in its immediate aftermath, among the militants of what became in 1969 the Communist League. Between enthusiasm for the rise of struggles and fear of being swept away by the ebb tide of the mobilizations, between predictions about the coming revolution and reformist dead ends, it was the question of organization, of the political party, that was posed at that time in new terms for a far left that was overwhelmingly composed of students. Contretemps

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• Russia

  The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

  2 May 2018, by Ilya Budraitskis

  The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real socialism” become blurred and vanish, those necessary for the production of ideology become ever more sharply defined. It’s often argued that communism, buried a quarter of a century ago as living practice, has since acquired an afterlife in the form of a restless corpse, a remnant, a regurgitated survivor from the past, blighting the lives of new generations.

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• Global Migration

  27 April 2018, by SAP (Denmark)

  From the middle of the 20th century, migration has been a decisive political issue. International organizations estimate that the number of people moving within and across national borders has grown to greater extent than ever since World War II. These type of estimates are never neutral – how far, and under which circumstances, do you have to move to be counted as a migrant, for instance? It is the same with statistics; you always have to make some qualification.

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