International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Gilgit Baltistan (Pakistan)

  Baba Jan and his comrades finally free!

  29 November, by Pierre Rousset

  Nine years after being imprisoned, Baba Jan and his last three imprisoned comrades have been released. Nine years during which we have more than once feared for his life, nine years punctuated by legal battles and vast mobilizations in Pakistan, as well as multiple campaigns of international solidarity. Eleven of his fellow prisoners having previously been released from prison, all the convicts from the Hunza Valley in Gilgit Baltistan, a semi-autonomous Himalayan territory under Pakistani control, are now free.

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• Economy

  A country is entitled to refuse to repay a debt

  29 November, by Éric Toussaint

  The following interview, given by Éric Toussaint to the Argentine review Mugica, has been adapted to make it accessible to readers who are not necessarily aware of the details of what is going on in Argentina.
  The arguments used in the article are supported by the realities of the situation in Argentina. They can be applied to many countries around the world as they are based on a series of concrete experiences, jurisprudence and concepts linked to international law.
  Mugica Review: In (...)

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• Greece

  A blow against Mitsotakis and his liberticidal measures!

  28 November, by Andreas Sartzekis

  Every 17 November the labour and student movements commemorate the 1973 revolt of the students of the Polytechnic School against the military junta. This revolt was repressed by tanks leaving between 40 and 80 dead but heralded the beginning of the end for the junta. This obviously displeases the right, which tries to neutralize or prevent these commemorations.

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• Climate justice movement

  From the Ground Up – the Climate Movement Gets in Shape for COP26

  27 November, by Iain Bruce

  The surprising success of the online mobilisation, “From the Ground Up”, from 12-16 November, poses new challenges and new responsibilities for the climate movement. This “Global Gathering for Climate Justice” was organised by the COP26 Coalition to mark the time when the United Nations climate talks were meant to have taken place in Glasgow. Lasting five days with 53 events and some 8,000 people registered, it brought together an impressive range of movements, speakers and topics. Together they sketched out key components of the response that is needed to the climate and Covid crisis – not only in the next year leading up to the postponed COP26 in Glasgow, but beyond that across the coming decade, when drastic action is needed to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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• Brazil

  Local elections indicate a new moment in Brazil

  26 November, by Bruno Magalhâes

  What’s at stake in upcoming 29 November municipal elections across Brazil?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ecosocialism

  Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?

• Thailand

  Towards a test of strength

• Peru

  Hugo Blanco: “I was neither a ‘Castroite guerrilla’ nor a ‘terrorist’”

• Spanish state:

  Down with the king!

• Hong Kong

  The Scorched Earth Tactic and the Hong Kong Resistance

Recently posted Debate

• Debate : Libya, the resistance, the no-fly zone

  Libya: a legitimate and necessary debate from an anti-imperialist perspective

  24 March 2011, by Gilbert Achcar

  The call of the Libyan insurrectonists in Benghazi for a "no-fly zone" and the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution 1973 that claimed to implement such a zone in order to "protect the civilian population" provoked a sharp discussion among anti-imperialists on what attitude to adopt. Here Gilbert Achcar responds to the debate following his remarks in an interview published in International Viewpoint and elsewhere arguing that it was not possible to oppose the UN motion.

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• Class consciousness

  Has working-class consciousness collapsed?

  3 September 2008, by Phil Hearse

  The crisis of working-class representation is a familiar theme in the left internationally, the idea that because of the shift to the right of mass social democratic and Stalinist parties, or because of their collapse, the working class lacks a political force that can defend its interests in the national political domain.

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• Italy
  

  An anti-capitalist left, incompatible with war and neoliberalism

  3 May 2008, by Salvatore Cannavò

  In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica.

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• After the split in Respect

  Revolutionary organisation and its relationship to building a broad left party

  16 January 2008, by David Packer

  When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today.

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