International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Learning & Advancing from Setbacks

Against the Current Editors — 2026-05-20T07:13:31Z

“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Labor Beyond Borders

Dianne Feeley — 2026-05-18T09:05:13Z

“When Shawn Fain [president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)] supported Trump's auto tariffs, he made the mistake of thinking that a narcissistic businessman could develop a policy in workers' interests. For Trump, tariffs are a weapon used to bludgeon workers in other countries.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Swedish Dockworkers Against Russia's and Israel's Wars

Artem Tidva, Erik Helgeson — 2026-05-01T07:15:24Z

Ahead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labour activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine.
In Sweden, such action was already underway. In March 2022, Swedish dockers had begun a blockade of Russian ships. This decision, supported by a nationwide vote among the Swedish Dockworkers' (…)

- Features / Sweden, Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Comorian healthworkers strike against wage inequality

Paul Martial — 2026-04-30T10:25:49Z

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services , Comoros

Italian steel bosses do you think workers can fly!

Francesco Maresca — 2026-03-11T13:24:18Z

Another workplace death at the former Ilva steel plant in Taranto while production languishes and Minister Urso fails to act. Workers mobilise. Solidarity from Sinistra Anticapitalista

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Deaths to order

Andreas Sartzekis — 2026-02-27T16:39:12Z

“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Greece, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE

Dan La Botz — 2026-02-22T11:05:09Z

“ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they're afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

Venezuelan trade unionists speak to us

Collective — 2026-01-14T17:09:15Z

The International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles is passing on information received from trade union comrades in Venezuela. With Venezuela, as with Palestine, as with Ukraine, as with Sudan, as everywhere else in the world, nothing can replace direct contact between workers. For our social class, it is the best source of information and the best way to build common struggles.

- News from around the world / Venezuela, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Valeo Poland - a first success

NPA Auto Critique — 2026-01-10T13:10:00Z

Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / France, Poland, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Big success for general strike in Portugal

Antonio Louçã — 2025-12-29T09:56:44Z

Portugal's minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing