International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

War and resistance in Putin's Russia

Ashley Smith, Ilya Budraitskis — 2022-09-30T12:17:20Z

“The regional resistance is perhaps the most important. It has the greatest potential right now to sabotage the mobilization and challenge Putin.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Russia

Republican Governors Use Migrants as Pawns in Political Game—But Put Themselves in Check

Dan La Botz — 2022-09-29T08:48:14Z

“No doubt the Republican governors will win the support from Trump's political base. But photos of the families with their children standing on American streets looking lost and afraid will also cost them the votes of many independents.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / United States (USA), Migration

Islamic regime shaken by unprecedented revolt

Bahman Ajang — 2022-09-28T15:08:27Z

“The initial slogans, generally directed against the morality police, were very quickly enriched by mass chants such as: “Death to the dictator”, “Down with the Islamic Republic”, “No Shah, no Supreme Guide”, “Woman, Life, Freedom”, or “Bread, Work, Freedom”. The movement was highly politicized from the start, and it was no longer a purely protest movement.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Women, Iran

Post Fascist Leader Giorgia Meloni Wins in Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2022-09-27T06:20:47Z

An initial analysis of the results of the Italian general election.

- IV572 - September 2022 / Italy, Far Right

One Ukrainian democratic socialist's opinion on the war

Bill Fletcher, Vladyslav Starodubtsev — 2022-09-26T08:48:55Z

Former president of the TransAfrica Forum Bill Fletcher interviews Vladyslav Starodubtsev, historian of Central and Eastern Europe, and a member of Sotsyalnyi Rukh, for his thoughts on the war in Ukraine and the response from the Western left.

- IV572 - September 2022 / Ukraine

The Tale of an Almost Strike: Workers, Unions and Politics

Dan La Botz — 2022-09-25T07:43:46Z

“Railroad workers were driven to threaten this strike by continuous employer pressures for greater productivity, by their lack of sick days, and by rising prices.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Let's get our lives back!

European network for solidarity with Ukraine — 2022-09-24T07:12:24Z

“As a first step we call on feminists around the world to raise prominently solidarity with Ukrainian and Polish women in their mobilizations in defence of abortion and reproductive rights on the occasion of 28 September, International Day for Abortion Rights.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Poland, Women, Ukraine

Woman! Life! Freedom!

Laya Hooshyari — 2022-09-23T04:56:59Z

“As in the past, women are at the forefront of the protests and by taking off their scarfs, and they have shown that they are protesting not only against the hijab but also against the entire brutal structure of the Islamic Republic.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Women, Iran

Ukrainian coal miners defy national protest ban to go on strike

Kateryna Semchuk, Thomas Rowley — 2022-09-22T09:00:50Z

“The mobilisation at Mine No. 9 is not the only protest in the western Ukrainian coal fields during Russia's invasion of the country.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Frontera Struggles for Reproductive Justice

Mireya Garcia, Mònica Clua-Losada — 2022-09-21T09:53:22Z

“While the reversal of Roe has been a major setback for the reproductive justice movement in the Valley, the fight for liberation is far from over. The community's outpouring of support for La Frontera Fund and South Texans for Reproductive Justice's efforts shows otherwise.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights