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IV413 - June 2009 PDF

2009-09-26T11:37:20Z

The June 2009 issue of International Viewpoint is now available in .pdf format as a free download.

- IV413 - June 2009 / PDF

People's Movement welcomes foreign workers

Søren Søndergaard — 2009-06-30T10:37:24Z

Upon the arrival in Copenhagen of the morning's ship from Poland SÃ¸ren
SÃ¸ndergaard, an MEP and a leader of the People's Movement against the
European Union, demanded that the parliament and government should
ensure that foreign labour is not subjected to unacceptable and highly
dangerous working conditions.

- IV413 - June 2009 / Denmark

Our place is at the side of the Iranian people!

Fourth International — 2009-06-27T16:53:35Z

Since June 13th, after the faked presidential election, millions of Iranian are expressing their anger with cries of “down with the dictatorship”. Their mobilization increases the crisis of the regime. Ferocious repression has already caused hundreds of dead and wounded. Our place is at the side of the Iranian people!

- IV413 - June 2009 / Iran

On the way back in Croatia and Slovenia

Lucien Perpette — 2009-06-27T16:44:26Z

For some time now in Slovenia skinheads have been attacking immigrant workers. This has caused indignation and provoked a reaction from radical youth and the Slovenian left.

- IV413 - June 2009 / Slovenia

The crisis in Europe and the role of anti-capitalists

François Sabado — 2009-06-27T16:37:49Z

We are not yet at the stage of building a European anti-capitalist party, far from it, the organizations each have their place, their history, their activity, but we are moving towards an anti-capitalist pole on a European scale, which has its particular profile, takes its own initiatives, has its own exchanges of views.

- IV413 - June 2009

Arab Sexualities

Peter Drucker — 2009-06-18T14:51:07Z

THE ISSUE OF same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement(1) have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.

- IV413 - June 2009 / LGBT, Reviews, Sexual politics

Peter Gowan - an appreciation

Phil Hearse — 2009-06-17T22:15:43Z

Peter Gowan, Professor at London Metropolitan University, a member of the New Left Review editorial board and a former leader of the International Marxist Group (IMG), died on 12 June. He was probably the leading Marxist expert on international relations writing in English, and wrote and spoke with an astonishing grasp of the inter-relationship between economic, political and military power in the modern world. His ability to knit together theory with a vast range of factual knowledge held his audiences spellbound.

- IV413 - June 2009 / Britain, Obituary

No future without a political solution

Danielle Sabai — 2009-06-09T09:38:39Z

The civil war which has raged in the north and east of Sri Lanka for more than 30 years now has taken a significant turn since mid January. The government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has launched an offensive with the full military might of the Sri Lankan army seeking to definitively put an end to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). For the first time in thirty years, the LTTE seems on the way to being defeated.

- IV413 - June 2009 / Sri Lanka

Neoliberalism flanked by the populist right

François Sabado — 2009-06-09T09:28:53Z

These European elections have first confirmed a broad popular abstention. Nearly 60% of voters did not go to the ballot boxes. This abstention can give only a deformed vision of the real relationship of forces in Europe. But it confirms the crisis of legitimacy of the European Union and of the governing parties who implement their policies within this framework.

- IV413 - June 2009 / European Union

Letters to a Tamil Sama Samajist

Vickramabahu Karunarathne — 2009-06-08T17:59:22Z

This article set was written by me in hiding when NSSP was banned in 1983. At that time Militant printed and circulated it as an internal discussion document. After the break up of the party it became a public document.

- IV413 - June 2009