International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• “America First” and the great upheaval in international relations

  6 March, by Gilbert Achcar

  The “America First” logic, adopted by the US neofascist movement known as MAGA, may seem rational to those who are not familiar with the economic history of international relations. According to Trump and his acolytes, America has spent huge sums of money protecting its allies, especially the rich countries among them, i.e. the geopolitical West (Europe and Japan in particular) and the Gulf Arab oil states. It is time for them to pay off the debt: all these countries must foot the bill by escalating their investments in the United States and their purchases from it, especially their purchases of weapons (which is what Trump means by his constant pressure on the Europeans to increase their military spending). All of this naturally falls within the mercantile logic consistent with the nationalist fanaticism that characterizes neofascist ideology

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• Middle East

  Palestine: still on the brink of catastrophe

  5 March, by Édouard Soulier

  The second phase of the ceasefire agreement should come into force next week, but it will probably be postponed by Israel. In a break with plans, Benyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet have suspended the release of 600 Palestinians under the terms of the agreement until further notice.

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• Belgium

  Belgium: First mass mobilisation against the federal government

  4 March, by Mélodie Vandelook

  After eight months of negotiations and political theatre in Belgium, the new federal coalition (N-VA, MR, Les Engagés, CD&V and Vooruit), which ranges from the right to the social liberals via the Christian Democrats and is called ‘Arizona’ because of the political colours of the parties that make it up, finalised its government agreement at the end of January, with the blessing of the employers. Its programme constitutes a major anti-social offensive and is already meeting with significant resistance from the population.

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• USA

  Seven ways that Trump is a danger to America and the world

  3 March, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump is a menace—a mortal danger—to America and the world. We knew before he was elected that he would be a threat to our well-being, but in his first weeks in office he has proven to be far more dangerous than anyone foresaw. From foreign policy, to public health, to the environment, to the lives of working class and poor people his policies will be catastrophic, increasing the urgent need for strategies of resistance.

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• Women

  India: Mass Struggle vs. Rape Culture

  2 March, by Jhelum Roy

  On August 14, 2024 at 11:55 pm, the streets of Bengal, usually deserted by this hour, were packed with Indian women claiming their half of the sky. At the approach of the country’s 77th “Independence Day” celebration they made the night their own by demanding an end to the rape culture that undercuts any notion of independence.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Social movements

  #StopFuelingGenocide: Boycott Chevron!

• Women

  Betrayed by the System in Brazil

• Fascism

  Trump, Putin and the war in Ukraine: Europe’s painful awakening to the rise of global Fascism

• USA

  Trump, Musk dismantle the welfare state, fire federal workers— and they respond

• Ukraine

  Ukraine Solidarity Under the Trump Administration

Recently posted Features

• In Memoriam

  Tikva Honig-Parnass 1929-2025

  4 March, by Roland Rance

  I am so sad to learn of the death of my dear friend Tikva Honig-Parnass. Tikva was a fearless socialist, a committed feminist, and one of the most consistent and principled anti-Zionists I have ever known. I was privileged to work with her during the first Palestinian Intifada, when she was acting director of the Alternative Information Centre in Jerusalem, and I was editor of the centre’s monthly English-language journal News From Within.

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• Broad left parties

  The challenge of broad left parties in 2025

  3 March, by Cian Prendiville

  The 2008 crash and resulting politicisation saw the rise of broad left parties in many countries. However in most cases, this wave has crashed, and the tide has turned, posing new challenges for these projects and for revolutionaries operating within them. In this opinion piece, Cian Prendiville reflects on these questions and attempts to plot a way forward.

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• Why I am rejoining Solidarity and some thoughts on the future

  3 March, by Paul Le Blanc

  A longtime friend, with whom I share a mutual respect, recently sent me an email regarding my decision to rejoin Solidarity.* What follows are the texts (slightly edited) of a two-part answer to him, and then my replies to a couple of emails he sent in response.

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• Ecosocialism

  To save the environment, we must end the profit system

  3 March, by Ian Angus

  A Portuguese translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, was published in Brazil in 2023. I was subsequently interviewed by Claudia Antunes for the multilingual magazine SUMAÚMA, a radical environmental journal that takes its name from one of the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest. SUMAÚMA published the interview in September 2024. This lightly edited version was published in Monthly Review in January 2025.—Ian Angus

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