International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

What now for Die Linke?

Thomas Goes — 2021-04-30T18:46:48Z

The challenge remains to express the legitimate anger of people who, disappointed, turn to the far right, without drawing the wrong conclusion that the bulk of frustrated people are tempted to become radical nationalists, because they are voters disappointed with the left.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Germany

For a new 25 April

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2021-04-29T07:58:50Z

Sinistra Anticapitalista, an organization of Fourth Internationalists in Italy, issued this statement on 24 April, the eve of the national holiday marking the victory against fascism in 1945.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Italy

Putchist generals and sorcerer's apprentices

Julien Salingue — 2021-04-28T21:14:15Z

“Macron and his followers, …are playing a particularly dangerous game”.

- IV555 - April 2021 / France, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

Biden: “Empire Is Back”…

Against the Current Editors — 2021-04-27T12:13:01Z

“That's imperialism: the metaphorical “shining city” dumping its garbage, raw sewage and toxic waste, both literally and figuratively, on the peoples down the hill, including much of its own population.”

- IV555 - April 2021 / United States (USA)

Can Delivery Drivers Break Their Silence?

Xiong Yan — 2021-04-26T20:22:26Z

The founder of the Drivers' Alliance mutual aid network discusses the challenges of life on the road.

- IV555 - April 2021 / China, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Today, We Celebrate the Carnation Revolution

Raquel Varela — 2021-04-25T21:19:05Z

Today, marks the anniversary of Portugal's liberation from dictatorship. On April 25, 1974, soldiers from the dissident Armed Forces Movement (MFA) removed dictator Marcelo Caetano, demanding that Portugal abandon its failed colonial wars in Africa. A regime dating back to the age of Mussolini and Hitler had finally met its end, along with Europe's last old-style empire.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Portugal, Historical events and figures

Left Bloc defends the waiving of patents on vaccines against Covid-19

Left Bloc — 2021-04-25T20:21:21Z

Left Bloc presented a draft resolution in the Portuguese Parliament for the government to defend the waiver in the European Union and for the vaccine to be treated as “a public good with universal access”.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Portugal, Covid-19 Pandemic

Boris Johnson and the Orbanisation of Britain

Joseph Healy — 2021-04-24T20:41:14Z

In January of 2020, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister and strongman of Hungary, called Boris Johnson, “one of the bravest politicians in Europe”. He congratulated the Tory Party on winning the general election the previous month despite “the whole world” being against Johnson.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Britain, Hungary

Economy & geopolitics – Biden and Europe, Concerning China and Russia

Barry Sheppard — 2021-04-23T10:48:11Z

The U.S. empire built after World War II was based on its economic and military domination, which remains. But over time it has begun to fray. The challenge by China on aspects of emerging technology and other economic fronts is one example. But increasing competition from European powers is another.

- IV555 - April 2021 / United States (USA), France, Germany, Russia, China

Kosovo: a historic turning point

Catherine Samary — 2021-04-22T09:15:46Z

“From now on, VV will have to apply the main thrusts of its electoral campaign against corruption and for social rights while the pandemic has killed nearly 1,800 people, worsening the economic, social and health crises in one of the poorest countries on the European continent.”

- IV555 - April 2021 / Kosovo