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/1979-in-Reverse https://internationalviewpoint.org/1979-in-Reverse 2021-06-29T06:21:28Z text/html en Cédric Durand United States (USA) Economy <p>“At this stage, one of the few things that can be said with confidence is that the possibility of tasting once again the flavour of popular victories is a just little greater than it was five months ago.”</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV557-June-2021-" rel="directory">IV557 - June 2021</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-United-States-USA-+" rel="tag">United States (USA)</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Economy-+" rel="tag">Economy</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Radicalisation-of-the-financial-economic-social-and-political-crises-at-the https://internationalviewpoint.org/Radicalisation-of-the-financial-economic-social-and-political-crises-at-the 2011-02-19T08:43:22Z text/html en Cédric Durand Europe Economic crisis <p>On Sunday November 21, 2010 Irish prime minister Brian Cowen formally requested international assistance from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Subsequently, EU finance ministers gave their agreement in principle on condition that a drastic austerity plan was implemented. Throughout the week speculative attacks against not just Ireland but also Portugal - in spite of the announcement of a new austerity plan - and Spain intensified. Five months after Greece, the "rescue" of Ireland marked the beginning of Act II of the Euro crisis and opened a social-political sequence which looks particularly agitated.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV433-February-2011-" rel="directory">IV433 - February 2011</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Europe-+" rel="tag">Europe</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Economic-crisis-+" rel="tag">Economic crisis</a>