International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Turkey/Kurdistan

  Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

  6 September, by Uraz Aydin

  On the occasion of the agreement on the dissolution of the PKK, Uraz Aydin presents the history of this movement and the evolution of the protest against the Erdoğan regime.

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• Palestine solidarity

  What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?

  5 September, by Marco Bertorello

  The large mobilization for the Global Sumud Flotilla is a barometer of the social climate. And it tells us that there is still room for humanity.

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• Economy and Ecology

  Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

  4 September, by Phil Hearse

  What does the crisis in the coffee industry tell us about global warming? The links between climate, economy and the precarity of workers.

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• Denmark/Ukraine

  Return from Ukraine

  3 September, by Bjarke Friborg

  The Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on questions of popular defence and security in Europe. This reflection is nourished by its sustained and permanent commitment in favour of Ukraine. It actively supports Ukrainian trade unions and social movements as well as progressive anti-fascist fighters who combat Russian imperialism.

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• Canada

  More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

  2 September, by David Camfield

  After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers’ right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
  Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  Trump Fires Top Officials, Seizes Control of American Cities

• Indonesia

  Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians’ Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims

• Ukraine

  Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

• South Africa

  If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

• Famine

  Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North’s Indifference

Recently posted Features

• Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (Part 1)

  Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector

  8 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  Since the banking bubble burst in 2007, the major Central Banks of the most industrialised countries lend massively to private banks at very low interest rates in order to avoid their failure, thus permitting the big banks that take the most advantage to save considerable amounts in interest payments.

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• Last part of the series: The Banks and the “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine (Part 9)

  The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop

  1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  We all know the saying “Too big to fail.” In managing the crisis the banks have caused, the governments of the industrialised countries have adopted a new doctrine that might be summed up as “Too big to jail.”

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• Series: Banks and the “Too big to jail” doctrine (Part 8)

  Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories

  1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  In 2001, the Dexia Group (Dexia SA) took over the Israeli bank Otzar Hashilton Hamekomi. It has been disclosed that this subsidiary – now called Dexia Israel – finances Israeli colonies in the Palestinian territories [1]which means Dexia is involved in the occupation of Palestine. As the platform “Palestine occupée – Dexia impliquée( Occupied Palestine - Dexia Involved)” says, “financing these colonies contravenes international law, in particular article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention, which states, ’The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies.’” [2]

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• Series: The banks and the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine (Part 7)

  The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale

  31 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  Another example of the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine: International tax evasion and fraud organised by UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank.
  UBS, which had to be saved from failure in October 2008 by massive injections of Swiss public money, was involved in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, the currency markets manipulation scandal (UBS is the subject of several inquiries by controlling authorities in Hong Kong, US, the UK, and in Switzerland) and the abusive sale of structured Mortgage-Backed (…)

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