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

• Spanish state

  Radiance and sunset of Podemos - reasons for a farewell

  16 September 2020, 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 2020, 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 2020, 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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• Ecosocialism

  The role of planning in the ecosocialist transition – a contribution to the debate

  25 April 2020, by Michael Löwy

  The semiannual French review Les Possibles, a publication of Attac France, in its most recent issue (No 23) features a number of articles on planning for the ecological and social transition. Most are addressed to the issue of socialist planning vs. capitalist markets that was prominent in the debates of 20th century socialism. The contribution by Michael Löwy puts this debate in the ecosocialist framework that has emerged in this century. My translation of it is published below.

  – Richard Fidler

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