International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Turning a Profit from Death - On Modi's Pandemic Response in Neoliberal India

Tithi Bhattacharya — 2021-05-04T10:29:56Z

“As we strive towards stabilizing life in India, we need to constantly remind ourselves that we can no longer afford to stabilize the system.”

- IV556 - May 2021 / India, Covid-19 Pandemic

Capitalism Made Women of Color More Vulnerable to the COVID Recession

Tithi Bhattacharya — 2020-10-16T08:33:38Z

“For all the women who have lost their jobs during this pandemic, for Black women and Latinas who have performed the bulk of the essential work during lockdown and borne the brunt of the recession, for all the Black and Brown elders who have lost their lives during this crisis, it is capitalism that has been their preexisting condition.”

- IV549 - October 2020 / United States (USA), Women, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Covid-19 Pandemic

Mapping Social Reproduction Theory

Tithi Bhattacharya — 2020-07-25T17:19:00Z

Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory.

- Feminism / Marxism, Women

How not to skip class: social reproduction of labour and the global working class

Tithi Bhattacharya — 2019-04-15T11:02:01Z

“…labor-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.”
Karl Marx, Wage, Labor and Capital

- Feminism / Marxism, Women

Argentina's Anticapitalist Feminism

2018-09-05T14:22:08Z

A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America. Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, Paula Varela, Camila Barón, and Gabriela Mitidieri were interviewed by Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Women, Argentina

What the Women's Strike Means

Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya — 2017-03-04T11:21:27Z

The International Women's Strike is about taking on the degradations of capitalism in all spheres of life.

- IV506 - March 2017 / United States (USA), Women

Beyond Lean-In: For a Feminism of the 99% and a Militant International Strike on March 8

2017-02-08T06:28:33Z

The massive women's marches of January 21st may mark the beginning of a new wave of militant feminist struggle. But what exactly will be its focus? In our view, it is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies; we also need to target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights.

- IV505 - February 2017 PDF / United States (USA), World, Women

Gazafying Dissent

Bill V. Mullen, Tithi Bhattacharya — 2014-08-03T10:53:20Z

Israel does not want you to talk about the children it kills in Gaza. And neither does your government.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Palestine, Israel

Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era

Tithi Bhattacharya — 2013-12-28T16:37:54Z

Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the woman, thirty-three-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, a housekeeper at Strauss-Kahn's hotel who was also at the time seeking asylum in the United States from her native Guinea, a former colony of France.

- Sexual politics / Women, Sexual politics