International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• China vs America

  China versus America: war in the Pacific?

  16 January, by Phil Hearse

  Despite the growing integration of Chinese and American economies, the rise of reactionary nationalism and the role of ‘militarised accumulation’ is tilting these two giant powers towards military confrontation.

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• 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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...and the rest of the current issue

• Bolivia

  Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year

• 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?

Recently posted Debate

• USA - Debate

  We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy

  9 January 2021, by Spectre Journal

  “We can give no support to the bourgeois establishment, the new Biden administration, or their state repression at home and imperial reassertion abroad. Instead, we must rally our forces to build anti-fascist united fronts everywhere to confront the right in large numbers and drive them off the streets, out of workplaces and social organizations.”

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• USA - Debate

  Mob takeover of Capitol highlights instability of U.S. political system

  8 January 2021, by Socialist Resurgence

  “Building a powerful, self-motivated movement of working people and their allies is the best weapon against the fascists—who prey on people who are politically demoralized and lack a clear direction.”

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• USA

  Reactionary uprising against the Parliament

  8 January 2021, by K Mann

  “Trump found that government control does not give absolute control over the levers of the state.”

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• USA - Debate

  Was it a coup?

  8 January 2021, by Todd Chretien

  “But defeating Trump at the polls, and today’s fiasco, has given us some breathing space. We must use it well. The results today in Georgia, Black Lives Matter, teachers and nurses’ strikes, MeToo, and the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America all indicate the direction we must take.”

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