International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Precarity and Green Unionism

Steve Ongerth — 2022-01-31T17:31:04Z

“Climate catastrophe is the ultimate form of precarity. There are no jobs on a doomed planet.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

The rulers of the great powers are playing with fire

Gilbert Achcar — 2022-01-30T16:25:37Z

“Thus, between renewed Russian belligerence and continued US arrogance, the world finds itself on the brink of a disaster that could greatly accelerate the annihilation of humanity, to which our planet is moving by way of environmental degradation and global warming.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / United States (USA), Europe, Russia, Eastern Europe

Implosion: U.S. Politics since the J6 Riot

David Finkel — 2022-01-29T11:28:53Z

“The potential of rightwing domination of federal and state legislatures, of the judiciary, and after 2024 possibly the White House, is truly appalling and terrifying with its implications for everything from white supremacy to climate apocalypse.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / United States (USA)

Fascism and racism in the Spanish State

Steve Cedar — 2022-01-28T07:50:40Z

“We must build opposition to VOX on the street and in the communities, and work with people on this question who maybe we do not agree with on some other issues, […]. We have the task of participating in building a unitary movement against the extreme right, but which must be based in the communities and workplaces.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Spanish state, Far Right

Explaining Kazakhstan Events

Alexei Kozakov — 2022-01-27T08:51:44Z

“One of the most popular slogans of the 2022 events was ‘Shal ket', old man out. The old man is out, but his ‘collective' remains. And alternatives have yet to be born.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Kazakhstan

Can Colombia's Left Survive the Persistent Logics of Armed Conflict?

Ben Gilvar-Parke — 2022-01-26T08:54:03Z

“The Pacto Historico, as a political movement, hopes to tie messages of national unity to social spending and poverty reduction, in what Villanuevas describes as not just a rejection of militarism, “but a social pact with Colombia's citizens.””

- IV564 - January 2022 / Colombia

Political Change and Continuity in the Dominican Republic

Amaury Rodríguez, Virgilio Oscar Aran — 2022-01-25T08:06:23Z

“International solidarity with the Dominican people will be crucial to defeat the latest ruling class offensive. The progressive and revolutionary sectors from the Dominican diaspora in the US have played an important role in Dominican politics and will continue to do so in years to come.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Dominican Republic

An Orwellian City Soon Joining an Orwellian State

Au Loong-Yu — 2022-01-24T05:59:14Z

“Maybe this is the best time to read or reread George Orwell's fiction 1984 – it increasingly looks like a script written for the Hong Kong Drama.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / China, Hong Kong

An embargo against the Malian people

Paul Martial — 2022-01-23T09:18:47Z

“Whatever the outcome of this crisis, the gamble of ECOWAS and the French government is lost. The tens of thousands of Malians who took to the streets against the sanctions reinforce the position of the junta.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Mali

Nationalists push the logic of the worst in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Catherine Samary — 2022-01-22T09:17:38Z

“A war seems unlikely, because no one has an interest in it, but also because the country is being emptied of its population. ”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Bosnia-Herzegovina