International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Chiapas: Blockades and Forced Displacement

Dany Rico — 2023-10-31T09:43:11Z

“Chicomuselo, and many other many towns in Chiapas, have become towns without authorities, where the inhabitants live in dread, in silence, in fear of the permanent surveillance that weighs on them, as organized crime has people videotaping and taking pictures of people who meet up with others or talk to each other.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / Mexico

France and its African policy

Paul Martial — 2023-10-30T21:27:26Z

“Where France was considered the guarantor of stability in playing its role as Africa's gendarme, the debacle of the military intervention in the Sahel is reshuffling the cards.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / France, Africa

Pro-Palestine Ceasefire Movement Shakes the Democratic Party

Dan La Botz — 2023-10-29T21:20:00Z

“Despite the obdurate American political establishment, we protestors in the street are determined to stop U.S. support for Israel's war.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / United States (USA)

China and Israel have a long history of cooperating in repression

Promise Li — 2023-10-28T10:02:20Z

Overshadowed by its relationship with the US, Israel has also long enjoyed fruitful ties with China, now its second-largest trading partner — including a military-tech exchange that has helped the Chinese state repress its own population.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Palestine, United States (USA), China, Israel

“Record profits mean record contracts”

Dianne Feeley — 2023-10-27T07:17:04Z

“The strategy of striking the Detroit Three puts corporations on the hot seat, having to continually respond to the UAW demands.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Two Gaza Scenarios: Greater Israel vs. Oslo

Gilbert Achcar — 2023-10-26T13:32:34Z

A ground invasion appears imminent, but what is the political endgame?

- IV585 - October 2023 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel, Egypt

Writing on the wall for Sunak and Starmer

Phil Hearse — 2023-10-25T13:00:00Z

This article analyses recent political developments in the UK, including election setbacks for the Conservatives, turmoil within Labour over the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the rise of far right parties. Hearse argues that these trends point to a period of increased political polarisation and conflict in Britain after the next general election.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Palestine, Britain, Israel

Hezbollah is increasingly isolated in the Middle East

Joseph Daher — 2023-10-24T09:26:00Z

Many are worried the Israel-Hamas war could draw in Hezbollah. But the party lacks the widespread support it once enjoyed because of its collaboration with Assad in Syria and its close ties with business interests.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Palestine, Syria, Israel, Lebanon

Israel-Palestine Conflict Gives Birth to a New U.S. Anti-War Movement

Dan La Botz — 2023-10-23T06:28:20Z

“The new anti-war movement is fighting against powerful, pro-war propaganda from the United States, Israel, and much of the media.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / United States (USA)

Far-right has created a climate of racism, Islamophobia and fear

Farooq Sulehria, Håkan Blomqvist — 2023-10-22T06:24:00Z

“Sweden has been making global headlines owing to a litany of Quran burnings earlier this year. Angry protesters in Baghdad burnt and ransacked the Swedish embassy in July while Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, agitation was recorded against the burnings of the Quran in Sweden.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / Sweden, Racism and Islamophobia