Artikelen van International Viewpoint
2 months 1 week ago
It's essential to change the production-based agricultural system, which is driven by petrochemicals, destroys jobs and exacerbates the ecological crisis. We need small-scale farming on a human scale, that creates jobs and generates income, produces high-quality food and supports living organisms. This alternative is a bulwark against bio-aggressors and climate change. To achieve this, we recommend:
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Ecology and the Environment
NPA Ecology Commission
2 months 2 weeks ago
A growing movement of civil rights organizations, Latino community groups, labor unions, and legislators is demanding the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, who President Donald Trump had deported to a prison in El Salvador in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and they have pushed this case through the federal courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. Abrego García's case has at the same time become the center of the struggle between Trump and the courts, a contest that has now become a constitutional crisis, raising the question of whether the United States will remain a liberal democracy or become an authoritarian dictatorship.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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United States (USA),
El Salvador
Dan La Botz
2 months 2 weeks ago
Erdogan's attempt to eliminate his likely rival in the upcoming presidential elections by arbitrarily placing him under detention has sparked mobilizations of rare magnitude. Faced with what could be a major turning point in the construction of Erdogan's neo-fascist autocratic regime, millions of citizens, including a newly radicalized youth, have taken to the streets once again.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Turkey
Uraz Aydin
2 months 2 weeks ago
On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 (the EA) refer to the sex assigned at birth in a case that was pushed for and funded by the UK gender critical movement. In essence, the judgment has found that being a woman entails having an XX chromosome, large gametes and the ability to produce children. This judgment means that trans women with gender recognition certificates (GRC) will no longer be legally defined as women under the EA.
This is a fundamental attack on the human rights of trans people.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Britain,
LGBT,
Far Right
Paris Wilder
2 months 2 weeks ago
The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian graduate student and green card holder seized March 8 at his Columbia University residence — is now multiplied by other high-profile detentions and deportation threats, and dozens or even hundreds of unpublicized cases. Secretary of State Marco Rubio openly boasts as much.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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United States (USA)
Against the Current Editors
2 months 2 weeks ago
Last spring, huge demonstrations took place across Kenya against the finance bill under the slogan “#RejectFinanceBill2024”. This IMF-backed project aimed to impose new taxes on the population in order to pay off debts amounting to $79 billion. The mobilization, mainly by young people, forced President William Ruto to cancel the bill.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Kenya
Paul Martial
2 months 2 weeks ago
Since the abrupt reversal of US policy towards Ukraine, the Russian concessions obtained by President Trump have been non-existent. The ceasefire on energy infrastructure has not been implemented; worse, bombing on Ukrainian territory has never been so intense, while the opening of a corridor to resume maritime trade in the Black Sea only benefits Russia.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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United States (USA),
Europe,
Ukraine
Gin Vola, Elias Vola
2 months 2 weeks ago
This year's Newroz festival in Diyarbakir drew huge crowds with one hope: to finally find a political solution to the decades-long conflict in the Kurdish region. A Newroz message from the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, was broadcast over the loudspeakers, something that had not happened for several years, as Öcalan has been in total isolation. The portrait of the charismatic PKK president was everywhere, which was not previously allowed. So was the portrait of Selahettin Demirtas, former chair of the HDP party (now DEM). Negotiating a ceasefire is no simple matter.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Turkey,
Kurdistan
Mireille Court
2 months 3 weeks ago
President Donald Trump's macho, white, nationalist ideology leads him to attack women, LGBT people, workers, the poor, the disabled and others, but his racism is particularly striking. He has in myriad ways made racism against Blacks, Latinos, and immigrants official U.S. policy. From the highest levels of government to the lowest economic levels of society people of color are being discriminated against, mistreated, and victimized as at no time since the 1920s.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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United States (USA),
Trade unions/workplace organizing,
Racism and Islamophobia
Dan La Botz
2 months 3 weeks ago
An alliance is emerging between jihadist forces and pro-independence forces in northern Mali, which would improve their balance of power in the ongoing conflict.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Mali
Paul Martial
2 months 3 weeks ago
We are entering a new era. Trump's return to the White House is so disruptive that it is causing the historic crisis of transatlantic relations as they were constituted after the Second World War. The new Republican and reactionary administration aims to exploit the new situation of ‘geopolitical chaos' to revive the role of the United States of America through an authoritarian turn, based on an alliance with the big hi-tech capitalists such as Elon Musk, and through a new foreign policy that focuses on imperialist national interests.
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Features
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Italy,
Europe,
War drive/Anti-war movements
Gippò Mukendi Ngandu
2 months 3 weeks ago
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
2 months 3 weeks ago
“A hundred students have set off on bicycles from Novi Sad on 3 April to reach Strasbourg, where they are due to arrive on 15 April to present their demands to the European institutions. In this long 1,400-kilometre race ‘to wake up Europe', they were welcomed as heroes in Budapest - the mayor of the Hungarian capital, an opponent of Viktor Orbán, joined the Serbian diaspora - and in Vienna. In the Austrian capital, all the Balkan diasporas gathered to cheer the student cyclists in Marie-Thérèse Square, recalling that, in all their countries, ‘corruption kills'.”
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Serbia,
Youth and student movements
Jean-Arnault Dérens
2 months 3 weeks ago
At a time when everything is spiralling out of control in the East, when alliances as evil as the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin duo are being forged, and when our leaders are advocating rearmament, we wanted to take some time to think about it. With Gilbert Achcar, a specialist in international relations and professor at the University of London, we discussed ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.[Gaëlle Desnos-CQFD]
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Features
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United States (USA),
Europe,
Russia,
China,
War drive/Anti-war movements
Gilbert Achcar
2 months 3 weeks ago
Since 1976, the Palestinian people have celebrated Land Day every March 30th, a day rooted in the history of Palestinian resistance and emblematic of the current struggle for survival. In 1976, the Israeli government launched a plan to Judaize the Galilee, confiscating 20,000 dunams of land (18 km2) in the midst of Arab villages. The aim was to build Jewish settlements on land belonging to Palestinian Arab citizens - the majority of the region's population. Everywhere in Palestine, from the Galilee to the Negev, in towns and villages, there were general strikes and demonstrations.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Palestine
Louison le Guen
2 months 3 weeks ago
‘For the Left Bloc, there are various imperialisms and "none of them will have a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites". Therefore, "recognising this reality is vital in elaborating an internationalist proposal capable of offering a future to humanity and conceiving a democratic order of peoples."'
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Features
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Europe,
Portugal
Left Bloc
2 months 3 weeks ago
France's far right Rassemblement national (RN) party has been trying to establish relations in Africa for several years now, and party leader Marine Le Pen's visit to Chad from 14-16 March 2025 is the latest avatar. The RN leader, accompanied by one of her close associates Louis Aliot, was received by Mahamat Déby, the Chadian president who has been in power for over three years thanks to a coup d'état ostensibly supported by Emmanuel Macron. Even if relative, the RN leader's interest in Africa, the source and cause of the much-hated “migratory submersion”, seems counter-intuitive to say the least.
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IVP603 - April 2025
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Africa,
Chad
Paul Martial
2 months 3 weeks ago
Dick Nichols
2 months 3 weeks ago
Daniel Bensaïd
2 months 3 weeks ago
“In this context, the debate on security, military and defence issues has gripped all the countries of Europe. Putin's regime poses a real threat to Eastern Europe and to democratic and social rights across the continent, through its alliances with the far right. Similarly, Trump, Musk and Vance, like the far right in Europe and elsewhere, are showing their willingness to attack head-on any social and progressive policy, however minimal, such as environmental regulations, the fight against discrimination or workers' social and trade union rights.”
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Features
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Europe,
Belgium,
War drive/Anti-war movements
Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten
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1 hour 39 minutes ago
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