International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The Uprising in China

Yun Dong — 2022-11-30T21:17:02Z

“Supporting people protesting from below will not escalate the US-led imperial conflict with China. In fact, our popular solidarity across borders is the best way to dampen down tensions and build a common international struggle for justice, equality, and democracy, all of which are under threat from our rulers throughout the world.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / China

"Wages and the cost of living: take back control!"

Léon Crémieux — 2022-11-29T23:09:16Z

“There is today a real issue at stake of political polarization, of crystallization on class bases of discontent and of social struggles.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / France, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The Islamic Republic of Iran: a capitalist, theocratic and patriarchal dictatorship

Babak Kia — 2022-11-28T16:21:09Z

“The movement today has made possible a considerable leap forward in the feminist consciousness of Iranian society, and whatever the outcome of the current confrontation, there will be no turning back.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Women, Iran

Broadening of strike movements in Britain

Thierry Labica — 2022-11-26T19:46:34Z

“Far from what we might have feared […] the struggles of the working class have not only resumed, but have spread and increased.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing

After the general strike of 9 November

Mateo Alaluf — 2022-11-25T12:03:23Z

Belgium is no exception to the wave of strikes in this hot European social autumn.

- IV574 - November 2022 / Belgium, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Forty-nine years ago the Polytechnic massacre in Athens

Andreas Sartzekis — 2022-11-24T13:16:02Z

17 November 1973 is one of the key dates in contemporary Greek history and in the country's political and social struggles: following the countless acts of resistance to the fascist regime of the colonels' dictatorship (1967-1974), hundreds of students occupied the Polytechnic University of Athens and popularised their action by calling for the fall of the colonels.

- IV574 - November 2022 / Greece, Youth and student movements

Alaa Abdel Fattah ends his hunger strike

Alaa Abdel Fattah — 2022-11-23T07:32:45Z

Faced with the promise of finally seeing his family on Thursday 17 November and after 7 months on hunger strike, Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian activist imprisoned since 2019, a figure of the 2011 revolution, decided to start eating again on 12 November.

- IV574 - November 2022 / Egypt

48,000 Academic Workers on Strike in California

Dan La Botz — 2022-11-21T19:12:10Z

“This huge strike, especially if it wins, could have a significant impact on other workers, in higher education and public employees.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Sahel: with or without Barkhane, a policy against the people

Paul Martial — 2022-11-20T08:50:43Z

“The new military orientation advocated will, without a doubt, continue to be exercised against the peoples in struggle.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Benin

Social anger amid possible political storms in Greece

Andreas Sartzekis — 2022-11-19T09:56:40Z

“The crisis of the right may not last but will weaken the government in the face of social pressure from the street.“

- IV574 - November 2022 / Greece