International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Feminist Anti-War Resistance abortion rights petition

Collective — 2023-02-28T12:39:49Z

“Russians are dying out”, officials and parliamentarians tragically tell us from the rostrum. It would seem, indeed, that the birth rate is not rising, and that in April 2022 Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1943-1944. In January 2023, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin even instructed the government “to come up with a way to raise the birth rate as soon as possible” and gave a full two weeks to solve the problem.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Russia, Women

China's New Left: The Revival of Lost Traditions

Gregor Benton — 2023-02-27T22:38:50Z

But although the political reawakening of some young people in China and the Chinese diaspora is potentially important, their movement is only just beginning

- IV577 - February 2023 / China, Historical events and figures

Four years on - keeping the spirit of the Hirak alive!

Mahmoud Rechedi — 2023-02-26T22:20:00Z

On the fourth anniversary of the popular Hirak movement, which began in February 2019, Algeria is sinking further into authoritarianism and repression. The strong state is taking hold!

- IV577 - February 2023 / Algeria, Protest movements

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country's Left

Alona Liasheva, Ashley Smith — 2023-02-25T21:06:00Z

Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.

- IV577 - February 2023

“Now Ukraine Needs Allies, Not Talk of Neutrality”

Zakhar Popovych — 2023-02-24T15:11:41Z

On the consequences of the Russian invasion, the mistakes of the Western left, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine. A Posle interview with Zakhar Popovich, member of the leftist organization Sotsyalnyi Rukh

- IV577 - February 2023 / Ukraine

The Statement of Minimum Demands of Independent Iranian Unions and Civil Society Organizations

Collective — 2023-02-23T13:29:00Z

Twenty independent organizations and unions of Iranian teachers, workers, women, students and retirees have issued the following statement of minimum demands.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Iran

Contradictions in British strike wave

Terry Conway — 2023-02-22T22:39:42Z

It has been a contradictory time for strikes in Britain.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Statement by ecology movements in Turkey- demands for immediate action

Collective — 2023-02-21T17:32:31Z

Immediately after the February 6 earthquake, one of the biggest in the history of Turkey, a broad meeting of Ecology Organizations in Turkey published this statement.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Turkey, Solidarity after disasters

Revenge politics to raise the ghost of the elite pro-nuclear consensus

Karen Yamanaka — 2023-02-20T22:26:34Z

“Regardless of the energy output the nuclear tests, heightened and intensified regional tensions in this area will endanger geopolitical stability which may trigger unexpected nuclear weapons also in other parts of the world.”

- IV577 - February 2023 / South Korea, North Korea

8 January: Contradictions and alternatives in the struggle against fascism

José Correa Leite — 2023-02-19T08:11:47Z

“[A] decisive democratic struggle has begun. This is an opportunity to confront impunity, violence, disregard for life (the criminal deaths of the pandemic being the most egregious case), militarization of society and its control by militias – linking it all to the criminalization of the coup activities of Bolsonaro and his associates.“

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Far Right