International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Biden in the Middle East: Gross Imperial Spectacle

David Finkel — 2022-07-31T06:32:00Z

“Indeed, all the regimes in this swirl of regional and imperial rivalries — Egypt and Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Russia and China, Israel and the United States — are engaged in the most vicious and anti-democratic oppression. May the rulers sink together in the Red Sea.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Israel

British Trade Unions Donate Vehicle and Medical Equipment to Ukrainian Counterparts

Ukraine Solidarity — 2022-07-30T18:59:00Z

Representatives of the British trade union movement yesterday delivered a heavy 4×4 pickup vehicle to their counterparts in Ukraine, where it will be used by the XX Battalion of the Territorial Defence, based in East Ukraine. This is the first of several planned deliveries on behalf of UK trade unions.
The unit, which is largely staffed by miners, put out a call for funds, medical supplies, and vehicles last month via the Ukrainian miners' union PRUP.
The National Union of Mineworkers, (…)

- IV570 - July 2022 / Britain, Ukraine

Quebec: climate strike on 23 September

Workers for Climate Justice — 2022-07-29T06:32:07Z

Representatives of the student movement and trades unionists are jointly calling on the people of Quebec to mobilize for climate justice on 23 September. Unions have called for a strike, and plan to organize demonstrations in several major cities in Quebec, including Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and Gatineau.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Quebec, Climate

South Africa: between corruption and neoliberalism

Paul Martial — 2022-07-28T08:14:48Z

Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta are the three most famous brothers in South Africa. Two of them were arrested a few weeks ago in the United Arab Emirates. With the help of Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president from 2009 to 2018, they managed to siphon the equivalent of nearly 3.6 billion euros from the state and infiltrate the main administrations, to the point that we can speak of “state capture”". This massive corruption speaks volumes about the state of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and reinforces a sense of despair among the people, reflected in recurring waves of xenophobia.

- IV570 - July 2022 / South Africa

Erdogan at war on all fronts

Eyüp Özer — 2022-07-27T11:20:00Z

Like the rest of the world, Turkey is going through a multitude of interconnected crises, in continuation with its own trajectory over the past decade. To maintain his position in this period of multiple crises, the country's president Tayyip Erdogan is firing on all cylinders: repression, wars, blackmail, negotiations, breaking of alliances and new alliances.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Turkey

Crisis of the Draghi government in Italy

Franco Turigliatto — 2022-07-26T10:32:24Z

In Italy, Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned as prime minister last week after three parties in his government refused to back him in a confidence vote. The country's President, Sergio Mattarella, has asked him to remain as caretaker leader and early elections will take place this autumn.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Italy

Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos Jr. succeeds Rodrigo Duterte and his clan completes the reconquest of power

Pierre Rousset — 2022-07-25T14:26:42Z

On July 25, 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr will deliver his first annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) before the National Assembly. On the eve of this address, we publish below an article written at the beginning of the month, after the inaugural speech of the new president on the occasion of his assumption of office, an article whose publication had been unfortunately delayed.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Philippines

Belarusian ‘railway partisans' face death penalty

Simon Pirani — 2022-07-24T17:29:35Z

The Belarusian regime is threatening “railway partisans”, arrested for sabotaging signalling equipment to disrupt the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the death sentence.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

NAT0 expands - Kurds betrayed

Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker — 2022-07-23T10:52:50Z

Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the betrayal of the Kurdish people as Erdoğan of Turkey uses the threat of veto on NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Finland, Sweden, Turkey, NATO

In Sri Lanka's crisis, a new president and old problems

B. Skanthakumar — 2022-07-22T15:27:54Z

B. Skanthakumar reports from Colombo

- IV570 - July 2022 / Sri Lanka, Debt