International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• China vs America

  China versus America: war in the Pacific?

  16 January, by Phil Hearse

  Despite the growing integration of Chinese and American economies, the rise of reactionary nationalism and the role of ‘militarised accumulation’ is tilting these two giant powers towards military confrontation.

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• Chile

  Constituent Social Movements bloc advances environmentalist and feminist demands in Chilean Convention

  15 January, by Camila Higuera

  Movimientos Sociales Constituyentes (Constituent Social Movements- MSC) has positioned itself as one of the most important forces within Chile’s Constituent Convention.

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• France

  Fighting French Fascism Means More Than “Anyone but Éric Zemmour”

  14 January, by Ugo Palheta

  “This … means fighting the banalization (and radicalization) of Islamophobia at the highest levels of the state, as in mass media, and in resisting the state authoritarianism daily expressed in the fate imposed on migrants and the securitarian surveillance of working-class and immigrant neighborhoods.”

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• Chile

  Chile’s victorious “new left” brings hope, but it’s all to play for

  13 January, by Franck Gaudichaud

  “For the first time in our history we are writing a constitution in a democratic manner. Let us take care of this process so that we have a Magna Carta that is a meeting point and not a source of division.”
  Gabriel Boric

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• China-USA

  What is missing from the debate about the China-US contest

  12 January, by Au Loong-Yu

  “The people have their own war to fight, a war to restore their self-esteem and their political and economic rights to be free. Let us turn our ears in their direction and support their struggle. ”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Bolivia

  Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year

• Covid-19 pandemic

  Novak Djokovic is no Spartacus

• Ukraine

  The United States and Russia Struggle over Ukraine. War on the Horizon?

• Antilles

  Martinique and Guadeloupe still in turmoil

• Kazakhstan

  Protests in Kazakhstan: A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising?

Recently posted Debate

• USA - Debate

  Riot on the Hill

  8 January 2021, by Mike Davis

  “Freed from Trump’s electronic fatwas, moreover, some of the younger Republican senators may prove to be much more formidable competitors for the white college-educated suburban vote than centrist Democrats realize. In any event, the only future that we can reliably foresee – a continuation of extreme socio-economic turbulence – renders political crystal balls useless.”

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• USA - Debate

  Quick notes on Trump’s putsch

  8 January 2021, by Ashley Smith

  “We are in the midst of the deepest crises (yes plural) of the capitalist system since the 1930s. These will continue to stoke profound polarization within countries, waves of class and social struggles, and greater conflict between capitalist states in the hierarchy of global imperialism. Out of this a new socialist left will be born and take organizational form. We must do everything in our power to arm it with revolutionary socialist ideas, strategies and tactics.”

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• USA - Debate

  After the fascist coup in the United States No time to lose - counter-offensive now!

  8 January 2021, by Socialistisk Politik

  “Our hope is for the forces that in recent years have shown that the United States is so much more than the banner of big business and imperialism, from politicians of Bernie Sanders’ cut to activists in Black Lives Matter, it abounds in campaigns for health care reforms and other social reforms to the socialist currents that have smelled morning air in the tracks of these movements.”

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• USA presidential elections

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

  19 November 2020, 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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