International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Russia

  Repression of Russian Left Activists

  2 November, by Ivan Petrov

  On June 5, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation rejected the appeal of Boris Kagarlitsky, leaving this prominent sociologist behind bars for the next five years. This event once again has attracted the world’s attention to the persecution of political prisoners in Russia.

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• Ecosocialism

  Discussing the Climate Crisis: Dubious Notions & False Paths

  1 November, by Michael Löwy

  In the convential truisms about climate crisis, we find a large number point — knowingly or unknowingly — in false directions. I am not referring here to denialist speeches (like those of Senator James Inhofe, who recently died), but to those who claim to offer “green” or “sustainable solutions.”

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• USA

  Election and Widening War

  31 October, by Against the Current Editors

  With war and genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with Florida and southern states inundated by the twin biggest climate-change flood disasters in U.S. history, and people’s general insecurity about their own and the country’s future, the United States lurches toward what’s called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may resolve little or nothing.

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• Middle East

  Israel’s Next Attack on Iran

  30 October, by Gilbert Achcar

  The nature of the attack carried out by the Israeli Air Force against Iran on 26 October is very significant for the near future. It clearly is a prelude to a subsequent attack.

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• USA

  Israel-Iran Conflict Becomes Issue in U.S. Presidential Election

  29 October, by Dan La Botz

  In a presidential election dominated by domestic issues, the Iran-Israel conflict pushes foreign policy to the fore. Still, Americans’ concerns about the economy and immigration are likely to determine the outcome.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Mozambique

  Elections smelling of gas in Mozambique!

• Lebanon: a fragile country becomes a new war front

• Ukraine

  “The Path to Victory and the Tasks of the Ukrainian Left”

• Middle East

  Hezbollah’s Dilemma

• USA

  Accusations of “Fascism” - Confusing for American Voters

Recently posted Debate

• War in Ukraine

  Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception

  16 July 2023, by Fred Leplat

  “Anti-capitalists and internationalists support unconditionally the people of Ukraine in their armed resistance to liberate their country from the Russian genocidal invasion. But the support for Ukraine is not necessarily uncritical.”

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• Ukraine and Europe

  Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left

  22 December 2022, by Catherine Samary

  This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.

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• War in Ukraine

  For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine

  8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcar

  “The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”

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• War in Ukraine

  Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital

  16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

  “Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”

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