International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The Indus Water Treaty

Mohammad Ebad Athar, Mona Bhan — 2024-08-29T07:41:45Z

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for sustenance.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, National question

Euskal Herria: a new victory for EH Bildu

Buenaventura Soihartze — 2024-05-03T11:09:00Z

“However, thanks to the 12 elected members of the PSOE, EAJ/PNV knows that it will be able to keep the Basque region, as the PSOE and EAJ/PNV refuse any local alliance with EH Bildu, raising the spectre of ETA to refuse to govern with them.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Spanish state, National question

A Rightful Place for Taiwan on this Planet

Au Loong-Yu — 2022-11-15T07:25:13Z

“Who should be our first concern in this triangular relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington? I argue that it is neither Beijing nor Washington, but the Taiwan people.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / United States (USA), China, National question, Taiwan

Submission to the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2022-08-21T10:34:43Z

“Without independence governments in Cymru will be unable to enact many laws that will improve the lives of ordinary working people because Westminster will almost certainly reject them if they are inimical to the political views of the governing party while laws developed in Westminster will be imposed on Cymru – as happens today despite devolution.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain, Scotland, National question, Wales

Corsica - the stone in Macron's shoe

Antoine Larrache, Desideriu Ramelet-Stuart — 2022-03-31T09:16:00Z

"When you combine democratic oppression, colonial oppression and capitalist oppression, after a while it's too much.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / France, National question, Corsica

Against French colonialism, for the social and democratic demands of the Corsican people

Desideriu Ramelet-Stuart, NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2022-03-11T12:42:08Z

“The attempt on the life of the imprisoned pro-independence Corsican activist Yvan Colonna in early March has been the trigger for a very strong popular reaction on the island. It is the most significant popular movement since that of the social movement on pensions in 2003.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / France, National question, Corsica

Bloody Sunday – 50 years of British injustice in Ireland

Joseph Healy — 2022-02-01T06:23:00Z

On the 50th anniversary of the massacre of innocent civil rights protestors in Derry, remembering 50 years of British injustice in Ireland.

- IV565 - February 2022 / Britain, Ireland, National question

A look back at the history of East Turkestan and the geopolitics of Central Asia

Daniel Tanuro — 2021-05-30T10:23:43Z

The Uighur question has suddenly become a stake in the political struggle in Belgium, between the PS and even more ECOLO, on the one hand, and the PTB, on the other hand. The former accuses the latter of complicity with the genocide of the Uighur people, the latter accuses the former of participating in a new imperialist cold war against China.

- IV556 - May 2021 / China, National question

Western Sahara: A forgotten war

Patrick Scott — 2021-01-28T09:49:42Z

“In Britain, Europe, and internationally we should build support for the Sahrawi people around the following demands. First, no to trade deals with Morocco and yes to trade embargos until Morocco has completely and unconditionally withdrawn from Western Sahara. Second; for recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the only legitimate government of Western Sahara.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / United States (USA), Britain, Spanish state, Morocco, National question

Faced with the war escalation: with the Saharawi people, for their right of self-determination and the end of the occupation

Anticapitalistas — 2020-11-18T20:26:05Z

The current situation in Western Sahara is extremely serious and represents a qualitative leap and a historical event before which we cannot remain impassive.

- News from around the world / Spanish state, Morocco, National question