International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA
  

  Trump Bribes Voters, We Remember 9/11, and Soon the Midterm Election

  21 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump convened the first-ever midterm Republican Convention in Dallas, Texas principally to celebrate himself and motivate his base for the coming November 3 national elections where control of both houses of Congress is in play. He told his followers to pretend that he’s on the ballot and to vote for Republicans.

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• Ukraine
  

  Civil and military resistance against Putin in Ukraine

  20 September, by NPA-A Ukraine Solidarity Intervention Group

  Ukrainian society is resisting at both the military and civilian levels. To provide concrete support, an international solidarity convoy will go on the road to Ukraine at the end of November. Ukrainian gains on the front line, even if limited, mark the inability of the Russian army to make decisive territorial advances.

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• Iran
  

  An acute crisis in Iran

  19 September, by Babak Kia

  Unable to win the war, US president Donald Trump is bogged down. The Islamic Republic of Iran is responding blow for blow to the US bombings. With the elections in the US and Israel approaching, Trump and Netanyahu cannot back down. This raises fears of a headlong rush and an escalation of the war.

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• Sweden
  

  Setback for the racist populist right, success for the left

  18 September, by Håkan Blomqvist

  A setback for the racist populist right and a success for the left- by a margin of 50 359 votes. Social Democracy will return to government in spite of its worst election results since the introduction of universal suffrage.

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• Brazil
  

  Dispute in the Supreme Court disrupts elections in Brazil

  17 September, by Luís Leiria

  On one side is Alexandre de Moraes, the judge who led the investigation into and prosecution of the Bolsonaro-led coup against President Lula; on the other is Judge André Mendonça, appointed during Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency. Both are suspected of having ties to the banker responsible for the biggest financial fraud in Brazil’s history.
  With less than a month to go before the presidential elections on 4 October, Brazil finds itself plunged into a crisis that, for the first time, has (…)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Democratic Republic of Congo

  Constitutional tampering in DRC

• Turkey

  ‘My family is safe’: the Turkish regime’s crackdown on LGBTI+ people

• New Zealand/Aotearoa

  Beyond the Labour Machine: Aotearoa, the Alliance, and the Question of Working Class Independence

• Latin America

  Latin America: Patterns and Pendulum

• Situation in East Asia and Japanese Politics/Economy

  Oppose the Takaichi Administration’s Military Expansion and Constitutional Revision

Recently posted Features

• Women

  A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

  21 October 2018, by So Yun Alysha Park

  In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women’s movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.

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• China

  Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?

  20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsen

  After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).

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• Fourth International

  September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International

  19 October 2018, by Arthur Nicola, Laurent Ripart, Léon Crémieux, Michael Löwy, Penelope Duggan

  This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.

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• Palestine/Israel

  The implications of the Balfour declaration

  20 September 2018, by Gilbert Achcar , Julien Salingue

  Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.

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