International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

When the governors no longer know how to govern

David Dessers — 2008-02-29T14:50:00Z

After more than a hundred days of information, formation, exploration and discussions, it seems there is only the shadow of the beginning of a perspective of an orange-blue government in Belgium, or of any other Belgian government for that matter.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Belgium

A dictator defeated

Farooq Sulehria — 2008-02-29T12:04:00Z

Liaqat Bagh: the lush green garden in Pakistan's northern town of Rawalpindi was witnessing a very different scene on February 18 as the night set in.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Pakistan

Zero fervour for elections

Farooq Tariq — 2008-02-29T11:36:00Z

No election excitement. No street corner meetings or large-scale public rallies. The main leadership of those parties participating in the elections plan no national tours. It could be the most colorless election in the history of Pakistan.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Pakistan

A country without an economy?

Adam Novak — 2008-02-29T11:25:00Z

Media coverage of Kosovo's recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence has focused on the risk of conflict with Serbia, and the broader geopolitical risks for unresolved separatist struggles in Bosnia and the former Soviet Union.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Albania, Serbia

A movement based on retrograde, monarchist, and ultra-Christian values

Ataulfo Riera — 2008-02-29T11:17:00Z

With the political crisis stemming from the difficulty experienced by the right wing parties in forming a new federal executive because of “community quarrelling” thousands of people, essentially in Francophone Belgium, are hanging Belgian flags in their windows.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Belgium

Towards a new anti-capitalist party

François Duval — 2008-02-29T10:52:00Z

In January, a vast majority of the delegates at the 17th national congress of the LCR approved a new political perspective: the building of a broad anti-capitalist party.

- IV397 - February 2008 / France, New parties of the left

The Bolivarian Revolution at the crossroads between imperialism, constitutional reform and the socialist discourse

Sergio García , Stalin Pérez Borges, Vilma Vivas — 2008-02-23T18:27:09Z

The tensions, struggles, debates and contradictions within the revolutionary process are deepening.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Venezuela

The international situation and the tasks of revolutionaries

François Sabado — 2008-02-21T18:30:50Z

We reproduce here the report on the international situation which was presented by François Sabado at the conference of Enlace - one of the currents within the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) of Brazil, which includes, among others, members of the Fourth International - held in Sao Paulo on December 15 and 16 2007.

- IV397 - February 2008 / World

LCR calls for new anticapitalist party

François Duval — 2008-02-09T18:22:37Z

Within the LCR, there is a very broad agreement on the structural reasons behind the attempt to build a new political representation for the world of work, bringing together all those who have not given up on the struggle against the capitalist system.

- IV397 - February 2008 / France, New parties of the left

Understanding the Belgian crisis

Daniel Tanuro — 2008-02-09T12:31:02Z

The politics into which Belgium is sinking remain unintelligible if we do not grasp the specific interaction between objective and subjective factors, and between the long history of the country and recent developments.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Belgium