International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Brazil

  Bolsonaro is breaking the country: 200,000 dead, unemployment and poverty

  18 January, by Esquerda Online

  “It is necessary to make 2021 a year of resistance and unitary action, on the streets - while respecting health standards - against this genocidal government. ”

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• Puerto RIco

  The 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left

  17 January, by José A. Laguarta Ramírez

  “If a solid leftist electoral front can be built while maintaining the pressure of street mobilization on a much weakened colonial capitalist regime, a true sea change is not just possible but within reach.”

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• Bolivia

  The Return of Democracy and an Uncertain Future

  16 January, by Bret Gustafson

  “Wherever one stands on Evo Morales, and despite the challenges ahead, it is clear that at least for the moment, Bolivians continue to challenge capitalism and its orthodoxies.”

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• Romania

  First as tragedy, then as farce? AUR and the long shadow of fascism in Romania

  15 January, by Raul Carstocea

  “Yet if the story of the defeat of fascism and of the central role played by socialism in its demise teaches us any lesson, it is that we surely have to keep trying.”

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• USA

  Post-Election 2020: A Crisis of Representation

  14 January, by Barry Eidlin

  Failed beer hall putsch re-enactments aside, Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 if not sooner—at least for the next four years. The focus now shifts to the post-Trump world: what can we expect from the incoming Biden administration?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Venezuela

  Parliamentary elections – Results and prospects

• Venezuela

  2021 begins with a new National Assembly. Will it lead to advances?

• Britain

  Five Things we have Learnt from the National Education Union’s Mobilisation to Keep Schools Safe.

• South Africa

  Nationalism and patriotism: the opium of the masses

• Hong Kong

  Hong Kong’s mass arrests are an assault on grassroots advocacy

Recently posted Debate

• Greek elections

  For a program of confrontation with capitalism, for an independent anticapitalist and revolutionary party

  16 June 2012, by Manos Skoufoglou, Gaël Quirante

  Greece is today the epicenter of the crisis of capitalism. It is the target of the most vicious attack by capital. The youth and the workers of Greece have answered this offensive with massive mobilization that has discredited the traditional political Greek regime of PASOK and ND. The ruling class no longer controls the situation, but the working class is not yet able to seize power and overthrow capitalism.

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• Greek elections

  The pendulum

  16 June 2012, by Manos Skoufoglou

  1. It is generally true that there is some delay between the real, active class struggle and elections. However, the recent elections in Greece show a picture from the future: a forthcoming frontal collision of two socio-political camps. The left and the far right. This is not only about the rise of the Golden Dawn neonazi party, but also about the “non-economical” part of the Independent Greeks’ program (a split from New Democracy that states it is against the memorandum and accepts the economic program of SYRIZA) as well as the rightward turn of New Democracy (ND, the Christian-Democrats). For working people, the period to come can be summarized by the formula: great opportunities, great dangers.

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• Brazil

  The experience of building DS and the PT, from 1979 to the first Lula government

  28 May 2012, by João Machado

  João Machado was a leader of DS throughout the period in question. This text draws on parts of a written contribution to the Seminar dedicated to Daniel Bensaid, held at the IIRE in January 2012. However, Bensaid’s role in DS’s discussions was not singled out just for that reason – he really played a crucial part, especially in the later period.

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• Greece

  The future of the workers of Europe is being decided in Greece

  25 May 2012, by Fourth International

  For two years the Greek people have fought against the austerity imposed by the Troika (the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank). After seventeen one-day general strikes, after mass demonstrations and the occupations of squares by the aganaktismeni (the indignant), after occupations of workplaces, in the elections held on May 6 it rejected the parties which had accepted the memoranda imposed on Greece by more than 60 per cent of the votes cast, and gave 37 per cent to parties to the left of the antisocial liberalism of PASOK.

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