International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Gilgit Baltistan (Pakistan)

  Baba Jan and his comrades finally free!

  29 November, by Pierre Rousset

  Nine years after being imprisoned, Baba Jan and his last three imprisoned comrades have been released. Nine years during which we have more than once feared for his life, nine years punctuated by legal battles and vast mobilizations in Pakistan, as well as multiple campaigns of international solidarity. Eleven of his fellow prisoners having previously been released from prison, all the convicts from the Hunza Valley in Gilgit Baltistan, a semi-autonomous Himalayan territory under Pakistani control, are now free.

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• Economy

  A country is entitled to refuse to repay a debt

  29 November, by Éric Toussaint

  The following interview, given by Éric Toussaint to the Argentine review Mugica, has been adapted to make it accessible to readers who are not necessarily aware of the details of what is going on in Argentina.
  The arguments used in the article are supported by the realities of the situation in Argentina. They can be applied to many countries around the world as they are based on a series of concrete experiences, jurisprudence and concepts linked to international law.
  Mugica Review: In (...)

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• Greece

  A blow against Mitsotakis and his liberticidal measures!

  28 November, by Andreas Sartzekis

  Every 17 November the labour and student movements commemorate the 1973 revolt of the students of the Polytechnic School against the military junta. This revolt was repressed by tanks leaving between 40 and 80 dead but heralded the beginning of the end for the junta. This obviously displeases the right, which tries to neutralize or prevent these commemorations.

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• Climate justice movement

  From the Ground Up – the Climate Movement Gets in Shape for COP26

  27 November, by Iain Bruce

  The surprising success of the online mobilisation, “From the Ground Up”, from 12-16 November, poses new challenges and new responsibilities for the climate movement. This “Global Gathering for Climate Justice” was organised by the COP26 Coalition to mark the time when the United Nations climate talks were meant to have taken place in Glasgow. Lasting five days with 53 events and some 8,000 people registered, it brought together an impressive range of movements, speakers and topics. Together they sketched out key components of the response that is needed to the climate and Covid crisis – not only in the next year leading up to the postponed COP26 in Glasgow, but beyond that across the coming decade, when drastic action is needed to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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• Brazil

  Local elections indicate a new moment in Brazil

  26 November, by Bruno Magalhâes

  What’s at stake in upcoming 29 November municipal elections across Brazil?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ecosocialism

  Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?

• Thailand

  Towards a test of strength

• Peru

  Hugo Blanco: “I was neither a ‘Castroite guerrilla’ nor a ‘terrorist’”

• Spanish state:

  Down with the king!

• Hong Kong

  The Scorched Earth Tactic and the Hong Kong Resistance

Recently posted Debate

• USA presidential elections

  Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can’t win the war

  19 November, by Susan Pashkoff

  “While Biden looks like he will pull out a squeaker of a win, the main goals of his campaign failed miserably.” This assessment of the US election was published on 6 November.

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• Spanish state

  Radiance and sunset of Podemos - reasons for a farewell

  16 September, by Manuel Garí

  The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have been “Radiance and decline of Podemos ... as an emancipatory political project.”

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• Party building

  Anticapitalist strategy and the question of organization

  12 June, by Julia Camara

  No matter how much time passes, or how often history is declared to have ended, the debate over socialist strategy and organization always returns. This foundational question appeared in embryo at the very start of the workers movement in the nineteenth century and was raised explicitly by Lenin when he described his perspective as “tactics as plan” and when revolutionaries split with social-democracy during World War I.

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• Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards?

  Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It.

  4 May, by Gilbert Achcar

  For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds and in conjunction with central banks to bail out entire sectors of the economy and prevent a general economic collapse. The ongoing rescue operations necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has already reached a much higher scale than the one deployed against the 2007–08 financial crisis. These operations clash with the basic tenets of neoliberalism in that they constitute a massive regulatory intervention by the state in reining back the market, whereas deregulation and market “survival of the fittest” are central to neoliberal ideology.

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