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/Creating-cross-border-links-between-militants https://internationalviewpoint.org/Creating-cross-border-links-between-militants 2011-09-29T19:46:19Z text/html en Robert Pelletier Europe <p>On Saturday and Sunday May 27-28, 2011, about thirty trade-union and political activists from the car industry, coming from the Spanish State, the United States, France, Italy, Poland, Russia and Sweden, met on the initiative of the “August 80” Free Trade Union of Poland at the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) in Amsterdam, to compare their analyses and experiences in the industry.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV440-September-2011-" rel="directory">IV440 - September 2011</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Europe-+" rel="tag">Europe</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-crisis-of-capitalism-is-used-as-a-pretext-to-attack-collective-rights https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-crisis-of-capitalism-is-used-as-a-pretext-to-attack-collective-rights 2011-03-18T01:09:30Z text/html en Robert Pelletier France Economy Trade unions/workplace organizing <p>The systemic crisis of capitalism puts on the agenda draconian measures which are supposed to make it possible for the capitalists to restore their rate of profit. The counter-reform of pensions in France is just one illustration of this policy. It sums up the economic objectives (to make the workers and the people pay for the crisis) and the social and political objectives (looking for consensus, for ways to get the victims themselves or their representatives to accept such counter-reforms.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV434-March-2011-" rel="directory">IV434 - March 2011</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Economy-+" rel="tag">Economy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Trade-unions-workplace-organizing-+" rel="tag">Trade unions/workplace organizing</a>