International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

A Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror

Dianne Feeley — 2026-09-27T06:21:58Z

IN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, from Venezuela, entered the United States legally and is seeking asylum. He is now in ICE detention with his serious gunshot wounds inadequately treated.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), Migration

UAW: Mixed Reform Results

Dianne Feeley — 2026-07-13T10:08:08Z

THIS SPRING DELEGATES were elected to the United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention that will be held in mid-June. As the UAW website notes, the convention will “make critical decisions, including constitutional amendments and resolutions on workplace and social issues.”

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Labor Beyond Borders

Dianne Feeley — 2026-05-18T09:05:13Z

“When Shawn Fain [president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)] supported Trump's auto tariffs, he made the mistake of thinking that a narcissistic businessman could develop a policy in workers' interests. For Trump, tariffs are a weapon used to bludgeon workers in other countries.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Last Year's International Women's Day, Ukraine

Dianne Feeley — 2026-03-07T15:52:17Z

LAST YEAR I celebrated International Women's Day in Lviv in Western Ukraine. It was the first women's march since the end of COVID and the beginning of the Russian reinvasion in 2022.

- Feminism / Women, Ukraine

Trump's Mass Deportation Wave

Dianne Feeley — 2025-05-23T13:07:49Z

Key to Trump's Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.

- Features / United States (USA), Migration

After Roe, the Anti-Abortion Deluge

Dianne Feeley — 2024-06-08T15:53:00Z

“The fight for abortion isn't disconnected from a whole range of issues that connect human beings to one another. There is no need to create hundreds of laws governing abortion — just access to good medical care. ”

- IV593 - June 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

“Record profits mean record contracts”

Dianne Feeley — 2023-10-27T07:17:04Z

“The strategy of striking the Detroit Three puts corporations on the hot seat, having to continually respond to the UAW demands.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Week Three—The UAW Strike Expands Again

Dianne Feeley — 2023-10-02T10:18:41Z

“A union that's not prepared to strike to win is like a fighter with one hand tied behind his back. Without the strike weapon, the war on workers is a rigged fight.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / United States (USA)

Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.

Dianne Feeley — 2023-09-21T16:37:07Z

A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike [which began on September 14] is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and nonunion despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that.

- IV584 - September 2023 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

UAW Mobilizing, Contract Deadlines Nearing

Dianne Feeley — 2023-08-24T07:30:01Z

As UAW contracts with the Detroit Three expire at midnight September 14, it looks like the companies are far from settling. Having raked in over a quarter of a trillion dollars in the last decade, they are balking at newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain's demand that “Record profits deserve record contracts.”

- IV583 - August 2023 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing