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IV400 - May 2008 PDF

2008-12-12T17:09:56Z

The articles in the May 2008 issue of International Viewpoint can be downloaded in PDF format.

- IV400 - May 2008 / PDF

Lebanon: Crisis not over

Gilbert Achcar — 2008-05-31T11:17:31Z

Hezbollah and its allies have resorted to military means in order to take control of West Beirut. it is a further blatant defeat for Washington, since the governmental majority is an ally of the United States, supported by Arab allies of the United States, like the Saudi kingdom and Egypt.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Lebanon

May 1968 and the Vietnam War

Jean-Michel Krivine — 2008-05-29T19:42:46Z

Looking at the picture that Vietnam presents in 2008 (rule of the bureaucracy, unrestrained corruption and worship of the dollar) it is difficult to imagine that 40 years earlier, the eyes of the young generation and of revolutionaries were turned towards this small country which was conducting an exemplary struggle against the American colossus.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Vietnam, Historical events and figures

The rise and fall of the left opposition

Jan Malewski — 2008-05-29T19:17:53Z

Student demonstrations, meetings, petitions, occupations of faculties, beatings-up and arrests, official anti-Semitism - the beginning of the year 1968 in Poland seemed to be an integral part of the vast revolt against the powers in place which was shaking the world.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Poland, Historical events and figures

A breach has been opened, now let's widen it!

Jan Malewski — 2008-05-26T10:30:53Z

Despite some defeats â€” the crushing of the student revolt in Yugoslavia, Poland and Mexico and the “normalisation” of Czechoslovakia â€” the year 1968 sounded the death knell for the stability of the authoritarian regimes. It opened a period of renewal of anti-capitalist and anti-bureaucratic resistance.

- IV400 - May 2008 / World, Historical events and figures

Wave of solidarity forces regime to retreat on cyclone aid

Mark Johnson — 2008-05-22T15:02:58Z

Media reports have neglected the most important source of aid to victims
of cyclone Nargis - spontaneous donations from their fellow citizens.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Ecology and the Environment, Solidarity after disasters , Burma

Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative

Ian Angus — 2008-05-17T12:25:21Z

It's not a lack of food that's killing people but agribusiness and finance capital - and the institutions that support them like the World Bank and IMF.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Economy, Food crisis

Historical Failure of the Capitalist Model

Ian Angus — 2008-05-17T12:02:17Z

Empty shelves in Managua. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods reveal not a lack of food but a lack of logic and humanity in international capitalism.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Ecology and the Environment, Food crisis

Aid and Hypocrisy

Mark Johnson — 2008-05-09T17:31:26Z

Response to the tropical cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar on 3 May 2008
has been hijacked by vested interests on all sides, leaving millions of
Asia's poorest people without any effective aid.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Solidarity after disasters , Burma

High School students mobilise massively against attacks by Sarkozy Government

Alex and Yoann — 2008-05-09T17:25:52Z

French youth continue to show their potential for mobilising against education reforms. This time it is the turn of high school students, who, during the last weeks, have been on the streets against the suppression of teachers' jobs in high schools.

- IV400 - May 2008 / France, Youth and student movements