International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Criminal policing, systemic racism, anti-social policies: supporting a legitimate revolt

Christine Poupin, Olivier Besancenot, Pauline Salingue, Philippe Poutou — 2023-06-30T10:21:00Z

A text signed by NPA spokespersons Olivier Besancenot, Christine Poupin, Philippe Poutou and Pauline Salingue.

- IV581 - June 2023 / France, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

India's Modi Receives Royal Treatment from Biden

Malik Miah — 2023-06-28T09:24:28Z

“During the Biden-Modi news conference, the chants of protestors could be heard, but both ignored them. Modi insisted there was no discrimination in India and argued that democracy is in India's DNA.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / United States (USA), India

Prides and workers' struggles in a time of backlash

Hélène Marra — 2023-06-27T08:10:00Z

Threats to the rights of women and LGBTI people, gifts to employers, the dismantling of public services and the denial of the right to health: the current period is a source of great concern both for gender minorities and for the Italian proletariat as a whole.

- IV581 - June 2023 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing, LGBT

“Prigozhin's March”: What Was It All About?

Posle — 2023-06-26T11:12:04Z

“While the consequences of these events are difficult to predict, it's already clear that they have forever changed Putin's political system. If this attempted military insurgency was so successful, why can't this example inspire future attempts to build on its success? ”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Russia

The War Comes Home to Russia; Could it Open the Way to Revolution?

Dan La Botz — 2023-06-25T17:02:08Z

“The most important question at this moment is: Can this struggle in the Russian elite lead to the collapse of Putin and the oligarchy and could it make it possible for the Russian people to rise up and overthrow them all.” [24 June 2023]

- IV581 - June 2023 / Russia

Deeper than ever, the crisis leaves capitalism out of breath

Éric Toussaint — 2023-06-24T20:10:25Z

“This is a major crisis of the globalized capitalist system, the worst crisis since those of the years 1914-1945.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Economy

Two Shipwrecks Reveal the State of the World

Dan La Botz — 2023-06-23T15:17:20Z

“The rich get a rescue mission, the poor get nothing.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / United States (USA), Greece, Migration

Shipwreck in Greece: Why were half those onboard Pakistanis?

Farooq Sulehria — 2023-06-22T20:04:29Z

“The fact of the matter is that poverty and an utter lack of hope drives young people to hand over their parents' life savings to human traffickers and hop on overcrowded boats leaving the Libyan coast in the dead of night.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Pakistan, Migration

Anti-Trans Legislation, a Form of Reproductive Injustice

Shui-yin Sharon Yam — 2023-06-21T21:00:53Z

“Defending trans rights is a matter of reproductive justice (RJ).”

- IV581 - June 2023 / United States (USA), Women

People's lives as a compass. Echoes of the Bloco de Esquerda congress

Vasco Barata — 2023-06-20T11:47:00Z

“Now is the time to unite these struggles and build an alternative. We are aware of the intention of the right and extreme right to unite to achieve power and of the need to combat this danger.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Portugal