International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

"The Worker House is one of the cogs of the regime"

Dominique Lerouge, Sara Salemi — 2023-07-14T06:19:00Z

“Its main activity is to prevent trade union organisations that are independent of the state from being set up or from being able to function. It also seeks to prevent strikes.”

- IV582 - July 2023 / Iran, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The Islamic regime in crisis steps up repression

Dominique Lerouge — 2022-11-10T09:24:16Z

“A blockade of the country by strikes would be the only way to put an end to Mullahrchia.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Iran

The establishment of an absolutist regime in Tunisia

Dominique Lerouge — 2022-09-11T12:05:38Z

“If the whole system is put in place, it will be the end of the period opened by the “Tunisian Spring” of 2011.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions

“Normalisation” crosses a decisive threshold

Dominique Lerouge — 2021-04-08T10:07:57Z

A huge desire for freedom and democracy was expressed in Hong Kong in 2019. For the government, it is now time for revenge and to bring the population into line with the standards in force on the Chinese mainland. The new electoral rules promulgated on 30 March aim to complete the elimination of all forms of counter-power.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Hong Kong

The Chinese steamroller in Hong Kong goes into high gear

Dominique Lerouge — 2020-12-13T17:51:38Z

The repressive rules in force on the mainland are being rapidly extended to Hong Kong, but a fightback continues and needs international solidarity.

- IV551 - December 2020 / China, Hong Kong

The dragon and the goose that lays the golden eggs

Dominique Lerouge, Pierre Rousset — 2020-10-10T07:41:52Z

“There are therefore elements for a long-term resistance strategy to emerge. It remains for the international left to contribute, in particular by getting involved in solidarity in the face of repression.”

- IV549 - October 2020 / Hong Kong

Southern Tunisia reaches boiling point

Dominique Lerouge, Fathi Chamkhi — 2017-06-02T19:57:14Z

Since 2011, social demands have continued to feed discontent virtually everywhere in Tunisia, preventing the stabilisation of the regime. This is currently the case in the region of Tataouine where a good part of hydrocarbon production takes place.

- IV509 - June 2017 / Tunisia

Nearly five years after the fall of Ben Ali

Dominique Lerouge — 2015-11-21T11:19:30Z

In January 2011 an immense hope arose, a hope for a new path in the history of the Mediterranean basin, and beyond:

â€¢ In the Arab region, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia quickly spread to many countries;

â€¢ The example of the occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo directly inspired the "indignant ones" of the ”movement of the squares" against neo-liberal austerity in Greece and in the Spanish State.

Nearly five years later, the counter-revolution has undeniably scored points, including:

â€¢ The massacres organized by Assad and the Islamist forces in Syria;

â€¢ The return in Egypt to an even more repressive military power than Mubarak's was.

Moreover, war is also raging in many countries of the region, especially in nearby Libya.

- IV490 - November 2015 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions

“Normalization” underway in Tunisia

Dominique Lerouge — 2015-03-27T05:41:37Z

On February 5, 2015 the Tunisian parliament elected on October 26, 2014 gave a vote of confidence to the new government with an overwhelming majority of 81.5%. This major turning point in the political life of Tunisia takes place in a context of economic crisis and social tensions as demonstrations and strikes spread.

- IV482 - March 2015 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions

Parliamentary elections

Dominique Lerouge, Freddy Mathieu — 2014-11-15T12:13:29Z

Despite the disillusionment of a part of the population, particularly among young people and the most disadvantaged layers, participation in the Tunisian parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 was nearly 70% of registered voters. In the elections of October 2011, Ennahdha had won 41.5% of the seats. It only got 31.8% this time. A portion of the population has expressed its rejection of the two years of Ennahdha government and the accompanying Islamist violence. The CPR and Ettakatol, who had participated in the government, have seen their number of elected representatives crumble. Nida Tounès, whose leaders for the most part originate from the regime which existed from independence to 2011, came first with 39.2% of the seats. The Front Populaire, which brings together most of the left and a part of the Arab nationalists, won 6.9% of the seats, against 2.8% previously.

- IV478 - November 2014 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions