International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Pakistan–Afghanistan War
  

  Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War

  1 March, by Farooq Sulehria

  As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under severe strain. Is this merely another episode in a volatile frontier relationship — or the blowback of decades of militarised strategy and proxy politics?

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• France
  

  France: Right-wing offensive follows killing

  28 February, by Léon Crémieux

  Since 12 February 2026, after a clash in Lyon between a group of antifa and a group of fascists that resulted in the death of one of the latter, France has taken a sordid turn in a campaign of demonization and criminalization of La France Insoumise (LFI), the left wing party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is directly accused of being politically responsible for the death of this person.

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• Greece
  

  Deaths to order

  27 February, by Andreas Sartzekis

  “This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”

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• Palestine
  

  Israel’s International Prison Policies

  26 February, by Édouard Soulier, Monira Moon

  As colonization and repression intensify in Palestine, Israeli prison policy is reaching an unprecedented level. Mass arrests, torture, arbitrary detentions and the international extension of repressive measures are part of a globalized colonial system.

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• Ukraine
  

  A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.

  25 February, by Sasha Talaver, Taras Bilous

  Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Japan

  Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election

• USA

  Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon

• USA

  Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE

• Algeria

  The Algerian Regime: Incompetence, Inconsistency, Arrogance and Repression!

• Britain

  Roots of the Labour Crisis

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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