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

• Women

  The year of #MeToo

  26 April 2018, by Elizabeth Schulte

  Many things can spark a wildfire, but it’s what happens afterward that determines whether that fire will rage. In the case of the #MeToo campaign, the dozens of women who stepped forward to talk about their experiences of having been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was the catalyst for tens of thousands more women to break the silence about their own stories of sexual assault and harassment—providing fuel to a fire that has been long in the making.

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• Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 1

  25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  Proposals Doomed to Fail

  In his latest book, Adults in the Room [1] Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods. [2]

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• Debt

  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 2

  25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed to Fail from the Word ‘Go’

  Disclaimer: This series of articles on Varoufakis’s book, Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment is a guide for left-leaning readers who are not happy with the dominant narrative meted out by the mainstream media and the Troika-controlled governments. This is also a guide for readers who are dissatisfied with the former Finance Minister’s version. As a counterpoint to Varoufakis’s story, I have highlighted events that he is silent about and I have expressed different views on what he should have done and what he did instead. My story runs parallel, and not opposite, to his.

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• Women

  Capitalism and the family

  22 April 2018, by Stephanie Coonz

  Issues of gender and sexuality are dominating the American public in a way that has few precedents in the recent past. From the alarmingly open misogyny of the president to the cascading revelations of sexual attacks in the workplace on one side, to the energy behind the historic women’s marches on the other, gender relations have risen to the top of the political debate. In a wide-ranging conversation, historian Stephanie Coontz places the current juncture in historical perspective, and offers her thoughts on how gender relations have been affected by the recent stagnation in working-class incomes and skyrocketing inequality. She closes with an eloquent plea to integrate gender politics into a broader progressive political vision.

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