International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

“Our goal Is to win this war”

Dick Nichols, Viktoriia Pihul — 2022-08-31T07:21:20Z

“Our main goal now is to win this war. We understand that it can be protracted, and it is not a quick process, and there are hopes for it. What is critical to victory is not to let the war and all the terrible events in Ukraine disappear from the world's agenda.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Russia, Women, Ukraine

Trump's Legal Problems Could Affect the Republicans in November

Dan La Botz — 2022-08-30T19:12:45Z

Donald Trump still dominates the Republican Party, but he and his party are vulnerable. Last week in the Republican Party primary in Wyoming, Trump's candidate, Harriet Hageman, trounced Liz Cheney, Trump's most vocal and important critic in the Republican Party, winning by 40 points.

- IV571 - August 2022 / United States (USA)

The Heaviest Rainfall in 115 Years and Record-breaking Heat Waves: Climate Disaster Caused by Growing Inequality

Karen Yamanaka — 2022-08-29T06:10:43Z

“The impersonal and destructive logic of capitalism is the main cause of poverty and ecological crisis.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / South Korea, Climate

Million say ‘enough is enough', as Tories plan massive attack

Phil Hearse — 2022-08-28T18:19:12Z

Phil Hearse looks ahead to a bleak Autumn and argues the left must mobilise and shout together 'Enough is Enough'.

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain

Monsoon brings misery to millions in Pakistan

Farooq Tariq — 2022-08-27T09:02:04Z

Devastating floods in Pakistan - An urgent call for financial solidarity

- IV571 - August 2022 / Pakistan, Solidarity after disasters

South Africa is at another crossroads

Moeletsi Mbeki — 2022-08-26T21:17:44Z

A government that is not capable of providing security to the nation must be replaced – democratically – by one that can.

- IV571 - August 2022 / South Africa

Ukraine and the Dangers of Nuclear War

Stephen R Shalom — 2022-08-25T08:03:13Z

“Nuclear war – along with climate change and pandemics — represents one of the existential threats facing humanity. The very future of our species could be ended in the event of a full-scale nuclear war.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, Nuclear power

Indiana's Abortion Ban: Lessons from Dystopia

Maria Bucur — 2022-08-23T10:11:00Z

“The abortion ban solves no social problems that most of the electorate actually understands as such. Forced births have consequences that Republican state legislators have been unwilling to name or confront.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Stop the repression ! Release political prisoners ! Uphold democratic rights !

Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya — 2022-08-22T08:48:17Z

“On behalf of comrades of the IUSF and MONLAR, the Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya appeals to the international labour movement and all those in solidarity with the people's struggle in Sri Lanka, to launch actions for the immediate release of all political prisoners, for the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and for the democratic rights of the peoples of Sri Lanka including freedoms of expression, association, and assembly.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Sri Lanka

Submission to the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2022-08-21T10:34:43Z

“Without independence governments in Cymru will be unable to enact many laws that will improve the lives of ordinary working people because Westminster will almost certainly reject them if they are inimical to the political views of the governing party while laws developed in Westminster will be imposed on Cymru – as happens today despite devolution.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain, Scotland, National question, Wales