International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The Trump Moment

Daniel Tanuro — 2024-08-31T05:30:22Z

Belgian ecosocialist activist Daniel Tanuro's book-length deep dive into the Trump phenomenon is now here in a new English translation.

- IV595 - August 2024 / United States (USA), Ecosocialism

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky”: 100 Years of Amilcar Cabral

B. Skanthakumar — 2024-08-30T08:10:54Z

Anticolonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Portugal, Historical events and figures, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde

The Indus Water Treaty

Mohammad Ebad Athar, Mona Bhan — 2024-08-29T07:41:45Z

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for sustenance.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, National question

Not all deaths at sea are equal

Dave Kellaway — 2024-08-28T09:08:15Z

Dave Kellaway reports from Italy, and reflects on the media coverage of the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily compared to the way the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean are usually reported

- IV595 - August 2024 / Italy, Britain, Migration

The global gag rule and women's abortion rights

Liz Lawrence — 2024-08-27T08:14:10Z

Liz Lawrence looks at the importance of birth control for women's liberation, the history of the global gag rule on healthcare funding for NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which provide abortion services, and the health impact of the global gag rule.

- IV595 - August 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Anti-Fascism and the Fall of Atlanticist Liberalism

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-08-26T04:03:31Z

The French historian François Furet, a communist in his youth turned anti-communist, is the author of a famous explanation for the popularity of communism after World War II, especially among intellectuals, attributing it to anti-fascism as highlighted by the major role played by the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism during the war.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Palestine, Fascism

New Delhi faces the gravest geopolitical fallout from Sheikh Hasina's exit

Kamal Ahmed — 2024-08-25T13:31:32Z

The Modi government must reckon with Bangladeshi anger over its support for Hasina even as the United States, China and Russia all reassess their approaches to Dhaka

- IV595 - August 2024 / India, Bangladesh

Cost of living crisis sparks nationwide protest in Nigeria

Baba Aye — 2024-08-24T16:12:10Z

Since 1 August, tens of thousands of people have trooped out onto the streets across Nigeria in nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests against hardship and hunger. This phase of the protest movement is expected to last until 10 August. Demonstrations have been held in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and in 29 of the 26 states of the federation. In all eight states where there were no protests on the streets, residents joined the nationwide protest by sitting at home, as was the case in Enugu.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Nigeria

From the “ruling realism” to the realism of the oppressed

Nima Sabouri — 2024-08-23T14:01:00Z

“Under the shell of suppression, there exists a flow of resistance. Continuous executions are actually a state-tool of intimidation to curb these resistances. ”

- IV595 - August 2024 / Iran

Why we are closing our center for displaced women in Lviv

Collective — 2024-08-22T09:14:00Z

In this month of August, we are celebrating exactly two and a half years since our Feminist Workshop opened its first shelter for internally displaced women. At the start of the invasion, we opened three shelters. Two of them stayed open for six months. Today, we would like to announce some important news for us: our largest center, which has been operating since June 2022, is closing its doors.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Women, Ukraine