International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

An uncertain future

Virginia de la Siega — 2017-12-06T18:48:04Z

The situation in Argentina has some similarities with that in France, with the two formations that had been the pillars of bourgeois bipartisanship for decades having fallen apart experiencing a deep crisis. “Cambiemos” (“We Change”), heir to the alliance that President Mauricio Macri created from isolated members of the old parties, has just won the intermediate elections (partial parliamentary elections between two presidential elections), thus strengthening his government.

- IV515 - December 2017 / Argentina

“We are on strike because we want to be alive”

Virginia de la Siega — 2016-10-24T15:20:29Z

“We are housewives, workers, business, workers, unemployed, activists, artists, mothers and daughters, maids ... that you see on the street, those in your neighborhood ... those who walk alone or accompanied, those who decide to abort or not ..., those who decide how and with whom their sexuality ... We are many ... and we shout tgether together: not one woman less! We want to be alive!

“This is why we are on strike (#Nosotras Paramos). And our appeal is regional: Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador. In all Latin America we walk together because Latin America will be feminist or it will not exist. Against femicide and against the precariousness of our lives.

“Not one less woman. We want us alive! ”

- IV501 - October 2016 / Women, Argentina

What is China's interest in Latin America?

Virginia de la Siega — 2010-06-07T20:13:18Z

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been slowly but surely emerging as world power for the last 30 years. It has become the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan and it's leaving behind Germany as the world's top exporter. Nor is China any longer a manufacturer of low value, low technology items: it has become the world's largest producer both of wind turbines and solar panels, and last year its auto sales doubled to more than a million vehicles a month surpassing the United States.

- IV425 - June 2010