International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Brazil

  A Major Change - The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Gains Strength Against Attacks from Trump and His Far-Right Allies on Brazil

  22 July, by Israel Dutra

  In recent hours, Bolsonaro’s legal situation has worsened, with a warrant authorizing searches of his properties, the imposition of an electronic ankle monitor, a ban on social media access, and other precautionary measures in response to his alleged conspiracy with Trump. (Revista Movimento)

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• USA

  Two Dead Americans—Two Americas

  20 July, by Dan La Botz

  Last week, the nation’s attention focused on two dead Americans, two men who couldn’t be more different, two men who seem to embody the nation’s divided politics, culture, and morality. One was John Lewis, the African American civil rights leader and legislator who died five years ago. The other was Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy socialite and convicted pedophile who provided elite businessmen and politicians access to underage girls.

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• Britain

  Starmer’s first year – things can only get worse

  19 July, by Dave Kellaway

  Sitting in number 10 Downing Street after the government’s debacle and U turn over the welfare, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney must have thought: these people are so ungrateful.
  “Here they are taking a wrecking ball to Reeves and Kendall’s project to save £5 billion with welfare cuts. But I made these MPs. I ensured nearly every left wing candidate had been eliminated early from any selection process. My team assiduously sifted through thousands of social (…)

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• Latvia

  Let Vlad stay

  18 July, by Maiznica

  A Riga-based social-centre project called “Maiznica” is facing repression from state security services and the expulsion of one of their members from the country. In this press release from the Collective they aim to spread the news to a wider audience.

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• Syria

  Syria and the Dangers of Playing with Fire

  17 July, by Gilbert Achcar

  Whatever is the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Suwayda Governorate—whether they were merely the result of the chaos prevailing in post-Assad Syria, or a manoeuvre by Israel in order to escalate its hypocritical intervention in the region, or a manoeuvre by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to extend its control over southern Syria—what is unmistakable is that the first factor, the prevailing chaos, provided the conditions for the explosion.

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• Kosova

  Remembering Srebrenica 30 Years On

• Chile

  Communist Party triumph and opportunity in an adverse electoral scenario in Chile

• Iran

  Islamic Republic and state racism: we must put an end to this regime!

• USA

  Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement

• Togo

  A wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations in Togo

Recently posted Features

• Islamophobia

  Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism

  17 September 2021, by Joseph Daher

  “Leftists must therefore oppose Islamophobic discourse developed and maintained by Western elites, governments and media against Islamic fundamentalist movements and denounce their repression by authoritarian regimes when it is the case in certain countries. But this principled position should not prevent us from supporting and fighting for radical change in MENA societies.”

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• Obituary

  Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist

  17 September 2021, by Hoda Ahmed, Chedid Khairy

  Reda Ibrahim Farag, a former leader of the Egyptian revolutionary Marxist current, died in Cairo on 4 August 2021. He played an important role in the constitution and leadership of a revolutionary organization from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

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• Stalinism and Nazism

  Stalin Handed Hundreds of Communists Over to Hitler

  2 September 2021, by Alex de Jong

  During the 1930s, many communists and socialists from Germany and Austria sought refuge from the Nazis in the USSR. But in a shocking betrayal, the Soviet secret police handed over hundreds of them to Hitler’s Gestapo.

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• India

  2021 West Bengal Elections: Populist Right wins, Fascists Gain and the Left Disappears

  2 September 2021, by Kunal Chattopadhyay

  With quite some time having elapsed since the election results to the West Bengal Assembly were announced on 2 May, we need to start by providing a bird’s eye view of the results before probing into details. And this can be summed up by saying that this is the most right-wing Bengal Assembly elected not only in independent India, but even going back to the Government of India Act 1935 and the elections of 1937.

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