International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  If Joe Biden Moves Left, You Can Thank the Left

  23 January, by Liza Featherstone

  “Above all, we need to build socialist, left, and worker power from the ground up, focusing on local and state government and on our workplaces. That’s the only way we can ensure that future generations will be able to expect better than Joe Biden, liberal edition. We cannot allow this complicated and chaotic moment to go to waste.”

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• Russia

  Navalny’s Return and Left Strategy

  22 January, by Ilya Budraitskis, Ilya Matveev, Kirill Medvedev, LeftEast

  Russia has had an eventful week and it’s not even finished. First, Alexey Navalny flew back to Moscow, then he was immediately arrested upon crossing the border, and the next day his team published a video illustrating Vladimir Putin’s own corruption and calling upon all citizens to come out to the streets against the government on January 23. What is the Russian left to think of all this? Navalny is certainly not its own, but should it stay away from the protests and the brewing political crisis?

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• USA

  Towards a Year of Crisis and Uncertainty

  21 January, by Dan La Botz

  The inauguration of Joe Biden as the USA’s 46th president on 20 January 2021 was characterized as a “return to normality” and that “democracy had prevailed”. What lies ahead?

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• Arab Springs

  After the Pandemic Subsides, We May See a Third Wave of the Arab Spring

  20 January, by Ashley Smith, Gilbert Achcar

  “There’s still a very long way to go in this long-term revolutionary process. The good news is that people are learning what they’re up against and drawing lessons from both defeats and victories.”

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• Netherlands

  Why the Dutch Socialist Party Is in Crisis

  19 January, by Alex de Jong

  “It is clear that if the SP persists in its current course, further isolation and decline are unavoidable. Forcing changes in orientation will be a difficult struggle. Considering the structural weakness of the Left, there is no guarantee of success.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Brazil

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

• Puerto RIco

  The 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left

• Bolivia

  The Return of Democracy and an Uncertain Future

• Romania

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

• USA

  Post-Election 2020: A Crisis of Representation

Recently posted Debate

• 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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• European Union

  Only the Beginning

  2 November 2017, by Miguel Urban Crespo

  Podemos MEP Miguel Urbán talks about Europe’s political crisis — and why the left must meet it with radicalism, not moderation.

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• Venezuela

  Letter to the Venezuelan people, to the peoples of Latin America and the world, to the international left

  18 August 2017, by Marea Socialista

  US President Donald Trump has just announced that he is considering the “military option” to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power. The threat of a possible military operation against Venezuela has been preceded by the adoption of unilateral economic sanctions. It would not seem likely that a direct military invasion will take place, even if the government is blackmailed to give more; but it is clear that there is an escalation. What Trump really wants to crush is the irreverence of the Bolivarian revolution.

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