International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The crisis and peculiarities of Chinese capitalism

Pierre Rousset — 2025-01-31T08:10:00Z

The Chinese regime has never been as opaque as it is today. We are living in a time of uncertainty, not yet knowing how Donald Trump will play his cards in relation to China. Between the climate crisis and chaotic de-globalisation, these are unprecedented times. Let's try to decipher the situation, without trying to remove the question marks.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / China

The Turkish State and the Kurdish Question: Contradictions and fragilities of a new hope

Uraz Aydin — 2025-01-30T18:58:00Z

More than nine years after the failure of negotiations between PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state and the end of the ceasefire, the Erdogan regime is once again trying to force the PKK (and its forces in Syria, in Rojava) to lay down their arms. However, this new "process", initiated by the leader of the far right Devlet Bahçeli, remains unclear for the moment about what rights the Kurdish people could obtain, apart from a possible release of Öcalan, if he calls for the dismantling of the Kurdish armed forces. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has summed up his approach to the "resolution" of the conflict as follows: "Either they will bury their weapons or we will bury them with their weapons."

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan

With Trump in the White House, China and Latin America may try to forge an even deeper relationship

Jose Caballero — 2025-01-29T20:47:41Z

Within days of Donald Trump's election win in November 2024, China's president Xi Jinping was at a ceremony opening a deep-water port in Peru as part of a “diplomatic blitz” through Latin America.

Xi's presence was a symbol of China's rising influence in the region.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), China, Latin America

World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles

Farooq Tariq — 2025-01-28T09:31:00Z

On 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan's National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, gas prices increased by a record 840% and electricity tariffs rose over 110 %.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Pakistan, Debt

Trump's Wrecking Ball

Dan La Botz — 2025-01-27T16:14:52Z

President Donald J. Trump, in his first week in office swung a wrecking ball smashing institutions, breaking laws, and wreaking havoc. The effect is dizzying.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA)

Defend the right to protest

Roland Rance — 2025-01-26T17:26:21Z

Roland Rance critises the ramping up of the state's determination to further criminalise protest and calls for action to fight back

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Palestine, Britain, antisemitism

Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism

Thierry Labica — 2025-01-25T20:42:24Z

Newly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, European Union, Greenland

France: 50 years of the Veil law: abortion, a right never won

Manon Boltansky , Ju Chiro — 2025-01-24T07:28:00Z

On 17 January 1975, the Veil law was promulgated in France: voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) could now be carried out legally and in a safe environment. The right to contraception and abortion was a victory won by the struggles of the feminist movement in the 1970s, in France as in many other countries.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / France, Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Two Myths About the Gaza Ceasefire

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-01-23T19:05:09Z

There are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect last Sunday: that it was due to Trump's pressure on Netanyahu and that it was a victory achieved by Hamas.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Palestine, United States (USA), United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation

Heinrich Neuhaus — 2025-01-22T10:32:33Z

One thing is indisputable: the management of Alstom, the French global manufacturer of rail technology, is sticking to its current strategy, which has been dictated by its major shareholders, and the effects of which can be seen in Mannheim-Käfertal.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Germany, Trade unions/workplace organizing