International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Mexico

  “Generation Z” and the advance of the far right in Mexico

  19 December, by José Luis Hernández Ayala

  The Mexican right, backed by oligarchic sectors and the open applause of Donald Trump, is trying to capitalize on social discontent to destabilize the government of Claudia Sheinbaum. Although their ability to mobilise remains limited, the danger is real. The only effective barrier remains the deepening of the project of transformation and the building of an autonomous social movement capable of confronting the fascist threat.

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• Portugal

  The general strike demonstrates that struggle can open up paths for the left

  18 December, by Jorge Costa

  “The general strike, the first since the days of the Troika, was called by the two main trade union confederations, CGTP and UGT, which has only happened in half of the ten general strikes held since the end of the dictatorship.”

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• Belgium

  After three days of strike, a vast social movement with no political alternative

  17 December, by Mateo Alaluf

  Belgium experienced a crescendo of strikes on Monday 24 November in public transport (trains, buses, trams, metros), Tuesday 25 November in all public services (including education and hospitals) and Wednesday 26 November, with the addition of the private sector, a day long interprofessional general strike that was widely followed in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.

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• 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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...and the rest of the current issue

• France

  1995, the year of the social movement

• Syria

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

• Indonesia

  Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power

• 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

Recently posted Features

• South Africa

  Uneven and combined Marxism’ within South Africa’s urban social movements

  2 March 2012, by Ashwin Desai, Patrick Bond, Trevor Nwagne

  The political dynamics of contemporary South Africa are rife with contradiction. On one hand, it is among the most consistently contentious places on earth, with insurgent communities capable of mounting disruptive protest on a nearly constant basis, rooted in the poor areas of the half-dozen major cities as well as neglected and multiply-oppressed black residential areas of declining towns. On the other hand, even the best-known contemporary South African social movements, for all their sound, lack a certain measure of fury.

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• Women

  Without women there is no food sovereignty

  2 February 2012, by Esther Vivas

  Systems of food production and consumption have always been socially organized, but their organization has varied historically. In the last few decades, under the impact of neoliberal politics, the logic of capitalism has been imposed upon the ways in which food is produced and consumed (Bello, 2009). [1]

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• Mexico

  Mexican Labor Year in Review: 2011

  24 January 2012, by Dan La Botz

  Felipe Calderón’s six-year term as president, which began to come to an end in 2011, represents one of the worst periods in modern Mexican history. The war on the drug cartels has taken 50,000 lives while failing to win a decisive victory against the cartels. The economy continues to experience very low growth while workers suffer unemployment or labor in the informal economy. The government’s war on the workers continues unabated, with no resolution of the earlier attacks on electrical workers, miners, and airlines employees. The failure of Calderón and the National Action Party (PAN) to successfully resolve the country’s most pressing problems while aggravating other issues has led to a decline of the PAN and the resurgence in recent years of the former ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), known for its powerful political machine based on patronage and corruption.

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• Interview

  Imperialism, the Arab Spring, and the crisis

  31 December 2011, by David Barsamian , Tariq Ali

  David Barsamian interviewed the well-known anti-imperialist writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 26, 2011 for International Socialist Review.

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