International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  The U.S. Election Too Close to Call and too Strange for Words

  15 October, by Dan La Botz

  With just a little more than two weeks until the November 5 U.S. presidential election that pits vice-president Kamala Harris against former president Donald Trump, the contest remains too close to call. A variety of issues, from conspiracy theories to assassination attempts complicate the campaign and sometimes confuse and mislead both voters and poll-takers.

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• Belgium

  Belgium: For freedom of movement and settlement, against closed centres

  14 October, by Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten

  In memory of 22 September 1988, the day on which Semira Adamu, an undocumented migrant activist, was killed by two police officers during an attempted deportation.
  For freedom of movement and settlement and the abolition of fascist migration policies.

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• Argentina

  University funding law: Milei’s first failure?

  13 October, by Latin America Commission, New Anti-Capitalist Party

  Last week, massive demonstrations took place throughout Argentina in defence of public universities and against President Milei’s veto of a law passed by parliament to fund them.

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• China

  How dangerous is Chinese Nationalism?

  12 October, by Chuang Liang

  When four Americans were stabbed in Jilin on June 10, I bought the CCP foreign ministry spokesperson’s comment that it was an ‘isolated case’ [1]. Then when another knife attack targeted at a Japanese school bus in Suzhou happened in the same month [2], I could still tell myself that China has a huge population so there must be more lunatics than smaller countries. Nevertheless, I started doubting my judgement after a Japanese school kid got killed in Shenzhen in September. This month, the victims of latest cowardly attack carried out by Chinese murderer were three kindergarteners in Zurich and the tragedy happened on China’s National Day. Now I am quite sure that this is a seriously worrying trend.

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• Kenya

  How Kenya’s Youth, Middle Classes and Working Poor Joined Forces

  11 October, by Caroline Kimeu

  I remember Kenya’s June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer in soccer games) and loud blasts of teargas.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Middle East

  One year after 7 October, Gilbert Achcar discusses the future of Gaza, Lebanon, and the regional conflict

• Chagos Islands

  Fatal Flaws in UK-Mauritius “Joint Statement” on planned Treaty on Chagos

• Middle East

  Why Hezbollah’s still standing despite Israel assassinating Hassan Nasrallah

• USA

  Biden-Harris Send More U.S. Arms and Troops to the Middle East

• Tanzania

  Tanzania: Masai evicted from their land on the altar of profit

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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