International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• 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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• Bolivia

  Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year

  11 January, by Bret Gustafson

  “Even with all of these challenges, the scenario in Bolivia is much better than it might have been, and the wider trajectory of Latin America seems promising as well.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• 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?

• Ukraine

  Ukrainians Are Far From Unified on NATO. Let Them Decide for Themselves

Recently posted Debate

• Europe

  The Far Right’s Leftist Mask

  10 December 2017, by Alexandre Afonso, Line Rennwald

  The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes.

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• France

  The Dangers of Detoxification

  10 December 2017, by Jim Wolfreys

  The FN’s new image doesn’t mean the far-right party had a change of heart — it means the mainstream has accepted its program.

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• Sexual Politics

  Identity Politics Can Only Get Us So Far

  3 November 2017, by Roger Lancaster

  Let’s give identity politics its due, but let’s also be clear about why we need universalist politics.

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• Perspectives in Greece

  Greece’s radical left after Syriza

  2 November 2017, by Antonis Davanellos

  On 15 January 2015, Syriza, the Coalition of the Radical Left, was elected in Greece. There was immense hope that this new government would finally stand up to the European Union and defend working class living standards so ravaged by the economic crisis and the punishing memorandums.

  But by July of that year, prime minister Alexis Tsipras had capitulated, signing up to a new (third) memorandum. The attacks on workers, the poor and immigrants have continued unabated.

  Red Flag’s Liz Walsh spoke to Antonis Davanellos, a member of the editorial committee of the Greek socialist newspaper Workers’ Left and a member of Internationalist Workers’ Left (DEA), to draw a balance sheet of their intervention in Syriza as well as the challenges ahead for rebuilding the struggles against austerity and racism and reconstituting a radical left on a firmer foundation.

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