International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists

Gus Fagan — 2026-02-07T11:57:07Z

Gus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Germany, Hungary, Antifascism

Was Marx an ecologist?

Gus Fagan — 2019-08-16T07:37:56Z

Was Marx an ecologist and does Marx's theory offer a coherent theoretical and practical approach for ecologists in the 21st century? The publication, in the original language (mostly German), of Marx's excerpts and notes on ecology from the mid-1860s may help to answer that question.

- Reviews section / Ecology and the Environment, Reviews, Ecosocialism

The Proposed EU-US Free Trade Agreement and the NHS

Gus Fagan — 2013-09-19T15:33:08Z

The measures taken by both Labour and Tory governments in recent years to open up health services to the market are not just a British phenomenon. Similar measures have been taken in all other European countries. The main mover in this has been the European Commission, the political representative of European transnational corporations. The European Commission is politically the most neoliberal free-market body in the world, way ahead of the US administration. In the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS 1995)) the signatories committed themselves to engage in â€˜progressive liberalisation' and, since that time, European governments have consistently implemented measures to commercialise health services and introduce more competition into the service. This international agreement to open up services to private corporations was given a boost by the financial crisis and the recession.

- IV464 - September 2013 / United States (USA), Europe, Canada, Public services