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

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

  From the Left: Is U.S. intervention justified in Libya?

  30 March 2011, by Lance Selfa

  SocialistWorker.org columnist Lance Selfa, editor of The Struggle for Palestine, critiques calls to support Western military intervention in Libya from several left-wing writers.

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• 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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