International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The will for change in Mauritius

Paul Martial — 2024-12-29T10:12:02Z

The opposition Progressive Alliance defeated the outgoing government's Lepep coalition in the Mauritian elections held on 10 November 2024. The results are indisputable. With 62% of the vote, the opposition parties won almost all the seats in the assembly, in accordance with the “winner takes all” rule.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Mauritius

Fatal Flaws in UK-Mauritius “Joint Statement” on planned Treaty on Chagos

Lalit — 2024-10-09T07:25:30Z

The “Joint Statement” that Pravind Jugnauth and Keir Starmer have concocted is obviously riddled with fatal flaws for Mauritius' future. It is dangerous on all the main issues: decolonization, closing the USA's military base, the elementary right to free movement over all the land and sea for all Mauritians including Chagossians, and thus the right to return for Chagossians. It is even a blow to Mauritian sovereignty, itself. So, the Treaty must be opposed. LALIT now puts the following issue on the agenda for the general elections: Full sovereignty to be exercised democratically over Chagos, and a date for base closure and clean-up! No to militarism! No to prolonged occupation or colonization!

- IV597 - October 2024 / United States (USA), Britain, Mauritius

Wakashio Four Months On: Mauritius Drenched In Oil, Health And Debt Issues

Nishan Degnarain — 2020-12-16T05:55:05Z

“We will never forget. We will never forgive. And we demand rehabilitation and reparations now.”

- IV551 - December 2020 / Ecology and the Environment, Japan, Mauritius

Britain Slammed in UN Court Judgment over Illegal Occupation of Chagos and Diego Garcia

Lalit — 2019-03-06T09:01:11Z

On 25 February 2019, the International Court of Justice at The Hague found that Britain had acted unlawfully in its decolonization of Mauritius.
It found that the excision of part of Mauritius, the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia which the UK then sub-let to the US military, was unlawful.

- IV530 - March 2019 / Mauritius

Britain Exposed in U.N. Court hearing for illegal detachment of Chagos from rest of Mauritius

Lalit — 2018-09-13T06:33:10Z

An absolutely riveting case was before the United Nation's court, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, last week. How could a court case 50 years after the events, in what is usually the dry legalistic argumentation of the most arcane kind about international law, be “riveting” by any stretch of the imagination, let alone “absolutely riveting”?

- IV524 - September 2018 / United States (USA), Britain, Mauritius

US military base on Diego Garcia must be closed!

Lalit — 2018-06-13T15:13:44Z

For 42 years now, LALIT has mobilized on the three closely intertwined demands on this issue:

– Decolonization of the Chagos Islands, illegally split off from Mauritius by Britain at Independence in 1968.

– Closure of the US military base on one of the islands, Diego Garcia.

– The right of return, heads held high, of all Chagossians, as Mauritians, with proper reparations.

Our mass mobilizations of the 1970s and 1980s have helped keep the struggle against military occupation on the agenda until now. Lalit never gave up on any of the three. Why should we?

- News from around the world / Mauritius

“The dynamic of the victorious struggle of the workers in the sugar industry has spread to other areas...”

Jean Nanga — 2013-01-10T18:14:31Z

Ashok Subron, an activist of the ecosocialist organization Resistanz ek Alternativ, is a spokesperson for the Left Trade Union Confederation-Solidarity (CSG-Solidarity) and an organizer of unions in the sugar industry, the port and the transport sector for the General Workers Federation-Joint Negotiating Panel (GWE - JNP) in Mauritius. He spoke to Jean Nanga for International Viewpoint.

- IV456 - January 2013 / Mauritius

Victory in Mauritius on Abortion Decriminalization

Lindsey Collen — 2012-07-22T19:04:19Z

Victories, even partial, are rare in these times. LALIT would like to share with you an important new development in the class struggle and struggle for women's emancipation in Mauritius: LALIT is the only political party that has, over the decades, campaigned for abortion decriminalization, and finally last month Parliament passed a new Abortion Law to replace the 1838 total ban on any abortion. Everyone in the country knows that this is a LALIT struggle, as our stand on abortion decriminalization had often been used “against” us. So, it is like getting accumulated “support”.

- IV450 - July 2012 / Women, Mauritius

Privatising the privatisation debate

Rajni Lallah — 1997-05-01T00:00:00Z

Management consultants Coopers and Lybrand are helping the Mauritan government avoid public debate on privatisation.

- IV288 - May 1997 / Mauritius