International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA/Middle East

  Trump and the Middle East: What Lies Ahead?

  14 November, by Gilbert Achcar

  Trump’s victory in the US presidency race is a major catastrophe for the peoples of the region, on top of the huge Nakba that has been raging since the Hamas-led “Al-Aqsa Flood”. Benjamin Netanyahu had been eagerly hoping for this victory and did everything he could to contribute to its achievement, whether by inciting his right-wing US allies or by refusing to grant Joe Biden and the Democratic presidential campaign the Gaza truce they had been hoping for in order to provide them with an electoral argument they desperately needed. So, what awaits us now that Trump’s return to the White House is confirmed?

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• Martinique

  “The high cost of living in Martinique is the consequence of the colonial system”

  13 November, by Ulysses, Philippe Pierre-Charles

  Since September, Martinique has been rising up against the high cost of living. Faced with this revolt, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has responded with violence. L’Insoumission has been covering this movement since its beginning. Thanks to its network of reporters, today we are presenting an unpublished interview with Philippe Pierre-Charles, former general secretary of the Martinique Democratic Workers’ Centre (CDMT).

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• USA

  Trump’s Election: A Decisive Victory for Republicans, Now Resistance Begins

  12 November, by Dan La Botz

  Donald J. Trump won a decisive victory for himself and for the Republican Party, taking the presidency, the Senate, and it appears the House as well, while in his first term Trump’s appointments remade the Supreme Court, which fully supports him. Trump and the Republican Party thus control all three branches of government giving him the power to implement his right-wing program and to transform the United States, and possibly dismantle its democratic system and suppress civil liberties.

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• Nicaragua

  Nicaragua Today: “Purgers, Corruption, & Servility to Putin”

  11 November, by Dora María Téllez

  These comments by former Sandinista militant and now exiled dissident Dora María Téllez, are excerpted from an interview by Carlos F. Chamorro on the Esta Semana program broadcast July 21 on CONFIDENCIAL’s YouTube channel. Téllez, an historian and political activist, analyzed president Daniel Ortega’s speech and the country’s political situation on the 45th anniversary of ousting the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship.

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• Ukraine

  Ukraine: resistance on two fronts

  10 November, by Jacques Babel

  Under pressure from Putin, the Russian military forces are using their superiority in terms of men and bombing resources to very slowly but surely gobble up territory and destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. Now, after massive deliveries of bombs, missiles and drones from North Korea and Iran, it has been announced that several thousand North Korean soldiers will be arriving to fight as reinforcements for the Russian army. Meanwhile, some on the left are still indignant about the delivery of arms to the Ukrainians by Western states, even though these are clearly insufficient to enable them to put up effective resistance to the Putin steamroller and reverse the balance of power.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Guinea

  Guinea: The great leap backward

• Migration

  Italy: is Giorgia Meloni’s policy a ‘model’ for Europe?

• USA

  Trump’s Second Term – Now is the time for a global fightback

• Spanish state

  Flooding tragedy strikes Valencian Community

• Ukraine

  Strength comes from within

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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