International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Mexico

  A mixed success for the President in Mexico

  26 June, by Fabrice Thomas

  On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

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• USA

  State of the Resistance

  25 June, by Against the Current Editors

  A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That’s been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we’re barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

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• Argentina

  Cristina Kirchner condemned and banned from election

  24 June, by M. N.

  The Argentine political field is (again) in turmoil. A few months before the mid-term legislative elections, and only a few days after the announcement of her candidacy as a regional deputy, the Supreme Court has just confirmed former president Cristina Kirchner’s conviction for corruption: 6 years in prison and lifetime ineligibility.

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• USA

  The United States at War in the Middle East —Again

  23 June, by Dan La Botz

  The United States has joined Israel in its war on Iran, increasing the chances for a wider regional war, one that could become a forever-war quagmire as the Iraq War did. President Donald Trump sent B-2 bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz while a submarine launched Tomahawk missiles at another facility in Istfahan.

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• Russia

  Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide

  22 June, by Gin Vola, Elias Vola

  Already in bad shape after 22 years of Putin’s repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Spanish state

  Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."

• Libya

  Under the yoke of the militias in Libya

• Palestine

  Down with imperialist wars, no to the Paris Air Show!

• USA/Ukraine

  Ukrainian union leader comments on U.S. left

• Spanish state

  Because it won’t be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?

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  12 January 2022, by Alain Badiou

  “Daniel Bensaïd was a man who calmly persisted in the conviction that while circumstances might change, while counter-revolutionary forces might become far more vigorous, all this was in no way a reason not to continue.”

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• Russia

  How the Russian Left Survived in a Post‑Soviet World

  12 January 2022, by Ilya Budraitskis

  After the demise of the USSR on December 26, 1991, the Russian left had to find its place in a society transformed beyond recognition. In the face of huge challenges, its activists have led important struggles against the system established by Yeltsin and Putin.
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• Globalization

  Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today

  12 January 2022, by Éric Toussaint

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• Our history in Hong Kong

  50 years after Baodiao: How Hong Kong struggled against all nationalisms

  12 January 2022, by Au Loong-Yu, Law Wing-sang , Mok Chiu-yu, Promise Li

  “But the “Baodiao” movement (保釣運動)—short-hand for “Protect Diaoyutai” (釣魚臺) in Chinese—represents the first movement led by a generation of people in the city imbued with some inchoate sense of local consciousness (to which today’s “Hongkonger” identity can be traced back), born and raised in Hong Kong upon the wave of mass migration from mainland China in the 1950s.”

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