International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Palestine's fate in light of the onslaught on Gaza

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-04-30T08:21:00Z

The current onslaught against the Gaza Strip, accompanied by a dangerous escalation of Zionist attacks in the West Bank, undoubtedly constitutes the gravest stage of the Zionist aggression that has been ongoing on the Palestinian scene since the 1948 Nakba. It is hence a great paradox that this paroxysmic onslaught is likely to produce results completely opposite to those of the war that took place more than three quarters of a century ago.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Palestine

Pro-Palestine Student Protests Spread Despite Repression

Dan La Botz — 2024-04-29T07:08:03Z

Thousands of students at dozens of campuses across the United States participated in April and continue today to join in pro-Palestine protests leading in some cases to brutal police repression, arrests, and suspensions or expulsions from the university.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Palestine, United States (USA), Youth and student movements

Evaporating Solidarity: The Response to Displacement Cannot Be Sustained by Empathy Alone

Daria Krivonos — 2024-04-28T09:04:39Z

“What is needed is not only access to international protection for all (including non-European) asylum-seekers but also functioning public institutions that can provide access to decent living conditions, accommodation, healthcare and work. ”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Poland, Ukraine, Solidarity after disasters , Migration

What happens next after the successful strike against poverty in Greece?

Andreas Sartzekis — 2024-04-27T10:06:46Z

Wednesday 17 April saw one of the biggest strikes in Greece in recent years: 100% in transport, 70% in construction, big numbers in businesses and two-wheeler deliveries. But virtually nothing in the supermarkets, which are at the heart of the accusations of exploitation of misery. It has to be said that recently, trade union repression, which also affects the public sector, has been stronger than ever, with threats to contract renewals.
The reason the turnout was so high is that Greece (…)

- IV591 - April 2024 / Greece, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Defeat the BJP, rely on the strength of workers, poor peasants, and all the oppressed social , ethnic, regional groups of people

Radical Socialist — 2024-04-26T09:32:00Z

Radical Socialist on the Current Parliamentary Elections in India.

- IV591 - April 2024 / India

The Anticapitalist Left presents a list for the European elections with Philippe Poutou

Laure Horlait — 2024-04-25T22:18:30Z

The Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgian section of the Fourth International, is putting together its own list for the European elections on 9 June. After a long and difficult road and a campaign to gather signatures, the Belgian comrades are taking to the electoral field for the first time in ten years under the name Anticapitalists.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Belgium

Remembering the Carnation revolution

Brais Fernandez, Dave Kellaway — 2024-04-24T06:29:34Z

This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese “Carnation” Revolution that erupted in 1974 and was finally tamed in 1976 with the election of a government led by Soares from the Socialist Party(SP). The moderate SP consolidated many reforms won in the previous two years but also restored the capitalist order.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Portugal, Historical events and figures

Meloni's government censors anti fascism

Dave Kellaway — 2024-04-23T08:48:54Z

The controversy surrounding a historian's attempt to give a minute's monologue on the meaning of Italy's National Liberation Day, 25 April.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Italy, Far Right

Historic victory for the “Aînées pour le climat”

Maryelle Budry — 2024-04-22T20:33:10Z

“They accused Switzerland, with evidence to back up their accusations, of failing to take care of their health and well-being in the face of increasingly worrying heatwaves, and of failing to take steps to achieve the target set for 2030 by the Paris Agreement in 2015.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Women, Climate, Switzerland

Auto Workers Union Wins Historic Victory at VW in Tennessee

Dan La Botz — 2024-04-21T15:45:22Z

“Until now, the South has been a bastion of bosses, of non-union open shops, where workers had no vote and no voice in their workplaces. If this victory leads to others, as it is expected to, it will change completely the balance of forces between the corporations and the working class in America.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing