https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/A-battered-austerity-regime-returns-to-power-in-Dublin https://internationalviewpoint.org/A-battered-austerity-regime-returns-to-power-in-Dublin 2016-06-03T08:48:46Z text/html en JM Thorne Ireland <p>On Friday 6th May Enda Kenny was appointed Taoiseach and the government of the 32nd Irish Dail established. Kenny and his Fine Gael party had been roundly trounced in the polls and his Labour party coalition partners decimated. Now, after 70 days of horse-trading, he had been returned to power. The austerity programme of Irish capital, enforced on behalf of the Troika, although slightly dented, remains in place.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV497-June-2016-" rel="directory">IV497 - June 2016</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ireland-+" rel="tag">Ireland</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Irish-state-reduces-women-to-vessels https://internationalviewpoint.org/Irish-state-reduces-women-to-vessels 2015-02-09T11:20:35Z text/html en JM Thorne Ireland Women Sexual politics <p>The repression of women by the Irish state has been exposed yet again by the case of a clinically dead woman being kept alive in order to continue a pregnancy. The responsibility of the state for this woman's situation was summed up in the claim by doctors that they were unable to accede to her family's request that life support be switched off for “constitutional reasons”. In this case the legal imperative to preserve the life of the unborn raised the prospect of a woman's body being maintained for up to twenty weeks despite there being no possibility of a live, never mind healthy birth.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-Feminism-" rel="directory">Feminism</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ireland-+" rel="tag">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Women-+" rel="tag">Women</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sexual-politics-299-+" rel="tag">Sexual politics</a>