International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Lula's great comeback, a balancing act

Gabriella Lima — 2023-03-31T13:03:46Z

It was after four years of neo-fascist far-right government that the former metallurgist was re-elected as president of Brazil for his third term. If the hopes are high, the challenges are just as high.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Brazil

Banking crisis in Switzerland: socialization not monster colossus!

BFS/MPS — 2023-03-30T06:13:12Z

“This new monster colossus has only come about because once again the Swiss state is stepping into the breach and thus the wage earners are being obliged by the government to pay for part of the losses of a big bank.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Economy, Switzerland

Maintaining real wages: a sabotaged fight in Germany

Jakob Schaefer — 2023-03-29T08:40:06Z

“We need a different wage policy, we need a different union leadership, basically we need completely different unions.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Germany, Trade unions/workplace organizing

A never-ending crisis in Libya

Paul Martial — 2023-03-28T08:23:00Z

“There is now a consensus that it is impossible for one side to win militarily. But, in the absence of political will to make peace, the country has been in a state of low-intensity civil war for two years.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Libya

Los Angeles School Employees Strike and Win

Dan La Botz — 2023-03-27T11:26:44Z

“The school workers victory is also important for the L.A. teachers who will themselves soon enter contract negotiations and may have to strike.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

Faced with social anger, Macron replaces legitimacy with police batons

Léon Crémieux — 2023-03-26T20:35:45Z

“Nevertheless, in the current situation, what is lacking is the building at the national level and in the cities of a common social and political front, defending an anti-capitalist alternative of social and financial choices in favour of the working classes, with a different sharing of wealth, a front relying on social dynamics to present itself as a direct political actor in the current situation.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / France, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Gary Lineker and the tweet that made the BBC tremble

Thierry Labica — 2023-03-25T10:20:57Z

A look back at a controversy surrounding the British government's anti-migrant policies.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Britain

Twelve years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster: for the world without nuclear power

Karen Yamanaka — 2023-03-24T10:18:34Z

“Nuclear disaster is ongoing. The very existence of nuclear power is a threat to the survival of humanity not only in this region but also in the world.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Japan, Nuclear power

Lives Yes, Pipelines No!

Rebecca Kemble — 2023-03-23T15:47:28Z

Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Canada, Quebec, Indigenous struggles

Freedom for Maksym Butkevych and for the other prisoners of the Russian army!

European network for solidarity with Ukraine — 2023-03-22T11:29:40Z

“The pressure of democratic public opinion is essential to save Maksym and the other prisoners sentenced by puppet courts or who are in the hands of the Russian army.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Russia, Ukraine