International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• France

  Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward

  1 October, by Léon Crémieux

  France finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron’s government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government whilst facing its most severe social unrest since the yellow vest movement.

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• Germany

  “A left-wing, grassroots orientation allows you to score points in times of polarization”

  30 September, by Antoine Larrache, Violetta Bock

  Our comrade Violetta Bock presents the situation in Germany and her work as a Member of Parliament for Die Linke, which consists of making a link between the working classes and the contesting of an increasingly unstable power. She spoke to Antoine Larrache.

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• USA

  Trump Increases Repression Against Political Enemies and the Left

  29 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump, breaking with U.S. norms, is using the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies, going after liberal and progressive foundations and NGOs, and sending more troops to another American city to intimidate protestors. He has fired Justice Department attorneys who are unwilling to put his orders above the law and replaced them with flunkeys who will carry out his demands. He has promised “retribution” to his high-level political opponents and is now meting it out. And he is also targeting the political left, saying he will designate Antifa, that is the anti-fascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization, though there is no antifa organization and no legal designation for domestic terrorism. To carry out his campaign against Antifa he is sending troops to Portland, Oregon.

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• Ecosocialism

  II Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting: Free Territories and Convergence for Action

  28 September, by Vanessa Dourado

  The current times, with the rise of the far right and genocidal wars, mark an era where the contradictions of the current system of production, distribution, and consumption demonstrate that we are in a higher stage of the already characterised civilisational crisis. However, this is not just another of Capitalism’s cyclical crises. The metabolic rupture, this irreparable breach in the natural cycle of exchange between human society and nature, challenges human beings’ ability to provide responses compatible with the acceleration of socio-environmental destruction.

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• Nepal

  The Nepalese paroxysmal crisis and its regional context

  27 September, by Pierre Rousset

  It only took a few days for the situation in Nepal to abruptly shift, leading to violent riots, before the resignation of the Oli government and the appointment of lawyer Sushila Karki as interim Prime Minister allowed a return to calm, with de facto power returning to the hands of the army. The explosion of the Nepalese powder keg was preceded and followed by popular movements of a scale rare in the region. Revolted by the arrogance of the oligarchies, they often have the fight against corruption as their banner.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Palestine

  Flotilla approaches Gaza

• Ukraine

  War of drones or war of nerves

• Italy - Palestine solidarity

  Finally, a general strike!

• Brazil

  Hundreds of thousands protest against amnesty for Bolsonaro

• Palestine

  Our eyes on the flotilla, not on the UN

Recently posted Features

• Ukraine

  “Ukraine’s Fate Raises the Issue of the Rights and Sovereignty of Small States”

  27 May, by Ilya Budraitskis

  Ilya Budraitskis, historian and author, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the most important voices of Russian left-wing intellectual thought, speaks to "Epochi" about the imperialist logic that governs the talks between the USA and Russia regarding the end of the war in Ukraine, the objectives of both sides, and the stance of the Russian Left towards a potential peace agreement.

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• USA

  Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave

  23 May, by Dianne Feeley

  Key to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.

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• Far right

  “The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right”

  19 May, by Ilya Budraitskis, Philipp Schmid

  Exiled Russian political scientist and activist Ilya Budraitskis explains the causes of the rise of the extreme right, the goals of the new fascists, and what lessons the radical left should draw from the 20th century for the fight against fascism. He makes a few suggestions for where anti-fascist politics could begin today in this interview by Philipp Schmid (BFS Zürich) first published in Sozialismus.ch.

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• Syria

  Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process

  18 May, by Joseph Daher

  For the country’s revival to be successful after years of war, inclusion of the population and democratization during the transitional period will be necessary, or national cohesion may be undermined.

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