International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist

Brian Ashley — 2019-11-11T15:32:19Z

According to Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish, a “mensch” is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. Other definitions define mensch as a person of honour and integrity.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Palestine, Obituary, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Public services , Features

Mugabe is dead: remember Chiadzwa

Leo Zelig — 2019-10-07T10:15:12Z

The death of Robert Mugabe (1924-2019) is being celebrated by Zimbabweans around the world. The 2008 massacre at the Chiadzwa minefield deserves to stand as a testament to his rule, writes Leo Zeilig.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Obituary, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe in 2019: the state we're in and the roadmap forward

Japhet Moyo — 2019-03-18T07:30:27Z

The economic outlook of post-independence Zimbabwe resembles a fading cloth: with each wash it has lost its lustre, and as time goes on it threatens to disintegrate into a rag. After inheriting a sound economy – albeit one with deep socio-economic disparities – on gaining independence in 1980, the government of Zimbabwe has instituted decades of economic decline and ever widening inequality by prioritising political and economic capital over everything else.

- IV530 - March 2019 / Zimbabwe

Arrest of trade union leaders highlights continued repression

Christopher Mahove — 2019-01-15T07:57:29Z

Although this article was published last November it is part of the current context. At least two people have been killed in protests over fuel price hikes, after the doubling of prices. President Mnangagwa isnt in the country - he is currently visiting Russia. This has been roundly criticised by the opposition. [IV]

- IV528 - January 2019 / Zimbabwe, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Why Do So Many Western Leftists Defend Robert Mugabe?

Benjamin Fogel — 2018-01-13T08:34:52Z

Apologetics for a kleptocratic tyrant have nothing to do with anti-imperialism.

- IV516 - January 2018 / Zimbabwe

Goodbye and Good Riddance, Robert Mugabe

Melusi Nkomo — 2017-12-11T10:59:09Z

Robert Mugabe was no socialist. He was a man obsessed with his own power and control. [1]

- IV515 - December 2017 / Zimbabwe

WOZA march for Valentines Day - 10 arrested

2009-02-12T21:14:21Z

Approximately 600 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (MOZA) demonstrated for several blocks to Parliament in Harare on Tuesday. The peaceful group sang as they marched from the Karigamombe Centre up Kwame Nkrumah Ave, past the offices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to Parliament.

- IV409 - February 2009 / Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's rip-off poll

Patrick Bond, Raj Patel — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

BY a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) president in early March. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), founded in September 1999, lost by more than in the last national election, in June 2000 when Zanu gained a small majority of parliamentary seats.

- IV339 - April 2002 / Zimbabwe