International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Never Forget Nagasaki

Rory Fanning — 2018-02-01T14:47:49Z

In 2018, the average age of a Hibakusha (???) â€” the Japanese word for a survivor of the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki â€” is eighty-one. When you speak with these survivors, you'll most likely hear the story of what it feels like to have an atomic bomb dropped on you as a six-year-old child.

- IV516 - January 2018 / United States (USA), Japan, Historical events and figures

IV516 - January 2018 PDF

robm — 2018-01-31T19:19:00Z

IVP 516 January 2018 PDF magazine available to download

- IV516 - January 2018 / PDF

From Roe to Reproductive (In)Justice: Inequality, Reproductive Freedom, & Access

Ashley Houston, Bayla Ostrach, Nechama Sammet Moring — 2018-01-31T15:26:03Z

Even as many mainstream liberals and feminists recently celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which solidified the legal right to abortion - for those who can afford it - economic inequality continues to limit abortion access. Being unable to access wanted abortion deepens poverty and vulnerability to other forms of social suffering.

- IV516 - January 2018 / United States (USA), Women

The post-election political landscape

Josep María Antentas — 2018-01-30T13:39:16Z

1. The Catalan parliamentary elections of December 21st, 2017 (21D) saw an unexpected electoral mobilization, with a historic rate of participation of 79.04% (these are the official figures after the counting of votes from abroad). The balance of power between the two big blocs in contention is relatively similar to that of September 27, 2015 (27S): 2,079,340 votes (47.49%) and 70 deputies for the pro-independence camp against 1,902,061 votes (43.49%) and 57 supporters of Article 155.

- IV516 - January 2018 / Spanish state, New parties of the left, National question, Catalonia

Workers' resistance at Ryanair

Socialist Democracy — 2018-01-29T08:34:51Z

The sight of Michael O'Leary, who declared once that Hell would freeze over before he would allow a trade union in to Ryanair, having to eat his words is indeed enough to bring a glow to the heart of any class conscious worker. At the company AGM in the Autumn O'Leary gloated that “I don't even know how there would be industrial action in Ryanair, … There isn't a union.”! So how then was this victory achieved?

- IV516 - January 2018 / Europe, Ireland, Trade unions/workplace organizing

After six months of Macron

Christine Poupin — 2018-01-28T13:23:10Z

The electoral sequence of spring 2017 revealed and accelerated the crisis of the French political system. Nothing happened as expected. The election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of the Republic, followed by a the winning of a crushing majority of deputies from La République en Marche (LReM) to the National Assembly marked an unexpected transformation of the political landscape. The logic of alternation would have given the classic right, represented by Les Républicains (LR) an overwhelming victory against the Parti Socialiste (PS) which had for five years held power at all levels, the presidency of the Republic, a majority in the National Assembly and the Senate, in nearly all the regions and in most of the big cities and metropolitan areas. The PS was certainly swept away, but so were LR.

- IV516 - January 2018 / France

Catherine Deneuve,'puritanism' and women's freedom

Lidia Cirillo — 2018-01-27T09:20:15Z

A letter was published in Le Monde newspaper on January 9th signed by artists and intellectuals of whom the most well-known was Catherine Deneuve. It is an unacceptable and mistaken reaction to something which is itself debatable. The letter is a call to women not to give in to the â€˜new puritanism'. The letter argues that while rape is a crime, insistent or unsubtle flirting is not – and neither is gentlemanly courtship equal to macho aggression. For the signatories, the legitimate and necessary awareness of sexual violence against women has been transformed into a conformist moralism:

- IV516 - January 2018 / Italy, France, Women

Solidarity with Afrin, al-Ghouta, Idlib against all military attacks

Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists — 2018-01-26T14:57:48Z

We, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists oppose the various military attacks on Afrin, Idlib and Eastern Ghouta and support all the innocent civilians in Syria. . . There has been a consensus between all the international and regional powers on the necessity to liquidate the revolutionary popular movements initiated in Syria in March of 2011 . .

- IV516 - January 2018 / Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan

Indigenous Womxn's March

Johanna Brenner — 2018-01-25T08:14:53Z

On Sunday January 21, Portland's streets were filled by Indigenous women, men, and two-spirited people marching with their allies to honor Indigenous Womxn Warriors, to remember and demand justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, girls and transgender people(#MMIW), to honor the earth and the Water Protectors, and to protest the oppression of Indigenous women throughout the globe, including jailed DAPL activist Red Fawn Fallis and Berta Caceres, environmental justice leader murdered by the Honduran regime.

- IV516 - January 2018 / United States (USA), Women

One year later and twice as pissed off

Nicole Colson — 2018-01-25T08:07:38Z

Nicole Colson rounds up reports from the Women's Marches mobilized to protest one year of Trump—and looks at the debates about building an effective opposition.

- IV516 - January 2018 / United States (USA), Women