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

• Libya

  Imperialist Victory Is No Gain For Libyan People

  4 September 2011, by Jeff Mackler

  This article by Jeff Mackler for the Political Committee of Socialist Action appears in the September 2011 edition of Socialist Action newspaper.

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• Libya

  Popular rebellion & imperialist designs

  26 August 2011, by Gilbert Achcar , Tom Mills

  Gilbert Achcar spoke to Tom Mills of New Left Project, a British-based website, about the rebellion in Libya and the motives behind NATO’s intervention on 25 August 2011.

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• Libya

  NATO’s "Conspiracy" against the Libyan revolution

  19 August 2011, by Gilbert Achcar

  In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” at the point of a gun, and an ardent supporter of full-scale US military engagement in Libya—referred to a Financial Times article (15 June) that compared the current aerial bombing campaign over Libya and the Kosovo air war in 1999 in order to emphasize “the lack of firepower in the Libya operation.” Boot commented, dwelling on the same comparison with additional details:

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• Libya/NFZ

  Imperialist intervention in Libya and the Left

  24 July 2011, by Andreas Kloke

  The Arab revolution continued with the fall of the third hated dictator, Saleh in Yemen, after months of bloody repression. In Bahrain and Syria, the regimes continue their efforts to stifle the popular resistance in blood. In Tunisia and Egypt, the ruling elites attempt to impose a “normalization” of their state and the exploitative system. The rebellion against the Gaddafi regime, which was until recently completely pro-Western, took a particularly tragic turn. The revolt itself was justified from the beginning and backed by the same layers — the laboring classes and youth — as in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries. Therefore the international labor movement and especially the internationalist left had to side with the insurgents despite the heterogeneity of the political forces involved and the relative weakness of the independent labor movement in Libya. The rebels managed to control Benghazi and the eastern part of the country, while Gaddafi prevailed in Tripoli and in western Libya. His troops proved clearly superior to the rebels in March, even threatening to invade Benghazi itself. Only the military intervention of the U.S., France, and Great Britain stopped the advance of the regime’s forces and prevented the military defeat of the insurgents.

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