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?

  read article...
• 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.

  read article...
• Greece
  

  Deaths to order

  27 February, by Andreas Sartzekis

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

  read article...
• 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.

  read article...
• 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.

  read article...

...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

• In Memoriam

  Carlos Ferra, Historic Pillar of the Socialist, Anti-capitalist Struggle, Has Died

  23 May 2020, by Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria

  We are very sad to announce the death on May 19 of our comrade Carlos Rubén Ferra Martínez (Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, 1942 – Mexico City, 2020), a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Coordinating Group, member organization of the Fourth International.

  read article...
• On Socialism

  1985: The Actuality of Socialism

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  This paper first appeared in a collection of essays from the Cavtat Conference in Yugoslavia, Socialism on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century, Milos Nicolic, ed., London 1985.

  read article...
• Karl Marx

  1983: Emancipation, science and politics in Karl Marx

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  Originally published in: Ossip K. Flechtheim (ed.), ’Marx Heute. Pro und Contra’ (Hamburg, 1983). This translation is based on the version published in Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx–Die Aktualität seines Werks (Frankfurt am Main, 1984).

  read article...
• National and class

  1971: On the dialectic of nation and class struggle

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  Only by starting from the centrality of class struggle can we explain the development of nationalism. However, that the theory of historical materialism gives class struggle a primary place in history does not mean class struggle is the only factor in history. In fact, at different times in history other factors can become primary. But whenever we ask why other factors can become primary, we are lead back to the question of class struggle. The development of nationalism is a case in point.

  read article...

• 1
• …
• 76
• 77
• 78
• 79
• 80
• 81
• 82
• 83
• 84
• …
• 191