International Viewpoint

The Albertist chimera of a world where everyone wins, electoral version. (Albertist is a reference to Alberto Fernández of the Frente de Todos FdT (Front for Everyone) coalition.)

“Today some 41% of all Americans now have a positive attitude toward socialism, while 68% approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating since 1965.”

“The continued absence of non-sectarian mass organizations and parties rooted in the country's working classes remains the main problem of the protest movement.”

“It is quite possible that a third bloc based on an alliance of the pro-Kurdish left party (HDP) with other parties of the revolutionary left will be formed. […] this bloc should not be limited to the ballot but should work on anti-capitalist positions for a unitive reconstruction of the radical left aiming to take root in a workers' movement in a state of ebullition.v”

“Let's have a clear break with these anti-migration and security policies that companies take advantage of by selling their new technologies and exploiting migrants and undocumented people in conditions of misery.”

“The next step is how to amplify and organize this combativity in the coming period,”

“As I have demonstrated, there are valid, serious criticisms to be made of Big Pharma and U.S. public health agencies, but the essential value of the worldwide Covid vaccine programs is challenged only by scoundrels and demagogues.”

“The resistance that has been organized throughout the country has borne fruit.”

“Xi Jinping's position, however, does not yet seem to be consolidated.”

“Eventually the struggle of working people – including in all their diversity as women, gays, indigenous – against a capitalist system that makes them poorer, unhealthier and is destroying the planet, will always re-ignite. Let us hope they can win a victory on 19 December.”

“To consolidate these electoral results and move towards eco-socialist solutions, would take much more than a simple electoral agreement (which is better than nothing, let's admit it). It would require a broad, unified and democratic movement of all the forces of the far left […]. We are far from this and each of the components of the FIT-U is organizing its own assemblies and victory demonstrations.”

“[T]he causes for which we fight are difficult, but they are so just that that one day we will win them.”

“A global socialist feminist view also demands supporting the plight of Afghan refugees and confronting racist forces in our countries who use refugees as scapegoats for the problems caused by capitalism and imperialism.”

“Finding themselves in a conflict with the boss and often facing the police, workers become more open to thinking critically about both big business and politics. When that happens, socialist activists in the labor movement can offer strategic ideas and can raise the socialist critique of capitalism and propose a revolutionary socialist alternative.”

The battle to impose bosses' “duty to disconnect” to ensure workers' “right to disconnect”.

“The victory of the farmers' movement also marks the Modi government's first real defeat in the last seven years. In that sense, it is a momentous occasion in India's political history.”

On the border between Belarus and Poland scenes are unfolding that should be unthinkable for 21st century Europe. The refugees stranded there, struggling to survive in sub-zero temperatures, are desperate, traumatized, at the end of their tether, as are the people helping them.

The formation of a new imperialism is a rare event. It requires multiple preconditions related to the international situation and the specific characteristics of the country concerned. From this dual viewpoint, the Chinese emergence has posed us unusual questions.

“In the face of this, anti-capitalists and all democrats in France must develop solidarity in action with those who are oppressed and exploited, in particular by our own imperialism. More than a moral duty, it is an objective necessity because our interests are common with these peoples and not with ‘our' capitalists.”

“While the imperialist defeat in Vietnam was certainly very real, the Anglo-American victory on a regional scale, less known and recognized, was just as real. The consequences would be profound and lasting.”