International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Austria

  Austria: Elections to the national parliament

  3 October, by EF, WH and PS

  The right-wing extremist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) under Herbert Kickl received 29% of the vote and was elected by 1.4 million, almost twice as many voters as five years ago. This is the best result for the FPÖ since its founding in 1955; in 2019, it was 770,000. Compared to the last election for the National Council (the parliament of the Federal Republic of Austria), where did the voters come from? 76% voted for the FPÖ again, 443,000 came from the conservative party ÖVP and 258,000 from non-voters.

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• Middle East

  Focus turns to Lebanon

  2 October, by Gilbert Achcar

  “We must not hesitate at all to mobilize against Israeli aggression, that of a colonial, oppressive and predatory state. Whatever the dominant political leaderships on the other side, resistance to the colonial aggressor is right.”

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• USA

  Harris and Trump Campaign Amidst Strikes and Protests

  1 October, by Dan La Botz

  Former president Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris continue to campaign in a neck-and-neck race, both holding large rallies in swing states in an attempt to pull ahead. Trump continues his racist rants against immigrants, whom he calls “stone-cold killers,” and his vicious insults against Harris, now calling her “mentally disabled.” He has blamed immigrants, released from other countries’ prisons and mental hospitals, for an invasion of the country that has “poisoned our blood” and destroyed the economy, taking jobs from American Blacks and Latinos. “And if you think about it,” says Trump, “only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.”

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• Sri Lanka

  Comrade President? Change and Continuity in Sri Lanka

  30 September, by B. Skanthakumar

  Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD) victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons. His predecessors have been from the social and political elite that has mis-ruled Sri Lanka since independence from Britain in 1948. Some were born into that elite, while a couple (Ranasinghe Premadasa, Maithripala Sirisena) made their way into it through the business of politics before they occupied the presidency. In contrast, Dissanayaka’s political life has been as an outsider and critic of that elite.

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• France

  Gender and sexualities: the reactionary offensive of the far right

  29 September, by Cassandre Begous , Fanny Gallot

  The French publishing house Editions Amsterdam has just published the first book from the La Boétie Institute , entitled Extrême droite: la résistible ascension. Coordinated by Ugo Palheta , with a preface by the historian Johann Chapoutot and an afterword by Clémence Guetté, this work aims to provide intellectual weapons, rooted in contemporary research ,on the far right, in order to understand and combat the rise of the FN/RN (National Front/National Rally).

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  Ukraine under Russian occupation

• South Africa

  The Populist Threat and the Response of the Left

• Middle East

  Strategic Reflections on the Escalation of Israeli Intimidation in Lebanon

• Germany

  Brandenburg elections - a black eye?

• USA

  Trump’s Racism Brings Chaos to a Small Town in Ohio

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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