International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Palestine solidarity

  Sailing for Palestine

  2 October, by Jennifer Debs, Nico Calabrese

  The Global Sumud Flotilla set out in the vital attempt to break the Gaza blockade, the Israel navy has now intercepted almost all the boats as they neared Gaza. This has provoked worldwide protests. Jennifer Debs interviewed Nico Calabrese who joined the flotilla.

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• 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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...and the rest of the current issue

• Nepal

  The Nepalese paroxysmal crisis and its regional context

• 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

Recently posted Features

• Stragic thinking

  Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

  8 May, by Simon Hannah

  The debate on the Left over the war in Ukraine has exposed serious disagreements on international questions, ones that have been brewing and deepening for over a decade. From 2001 to 2011, there was general unity on the socialist Left about the question of imperialism and the response to it. This was a period of explicit and obvious attacks on sovereign countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and other imperialist forces. This naked imperialist aggression triggered global mass movements against the so-called “War on Terror.”

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• Strategic thinking

  Dreaming as internationalist materialists

  8 May, by Alexis Cukier , Franck Gaudichaud, Théo Roumier, Vincent Gay, Yoletty Bracho

  “We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples).

  And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us today is not changing our dreams and desires. Certainly not going poaching on the side of those opposed to us, claiming that “only the far right dreams”.”

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• Vietnam

  Vietnam, 30 April 1975 - 50 years ago, a historic victory, but at what price?

  29 April, by Pierre Rousset

  Vietnam’s independence was first proclaimed in August 1945, and we could soon be celebrating its 80th anniversary. De Gaulle decided otherwise, sending an expeditionary force to reconquer his lost colony. Indochina had to endure two devastating successive imperial wars, first French, then American. Washington mobilised all the means at its disposal to crush the Vietnamese revolution, certain that it would prevail - and was defeated. The image has gone down in history: the staff of the US (…)

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• Obituary

  Hendrik “Pips” Patroons, comrade and friend

  29 April, by Alain Tondeur

  Our comrade Hendrik Patroons, alias “Pips”, passed away in Ghent on April 17, 2025. He was active from an early age in SAP-Antikapitalisten (our organization in Flanders, then called Revolutionaire Arbeiders Liga) and the Fourth International. A convinced revolutionary right up to his last days, he and his companion Marijke Colle left a lasting mark on the organization. He took part in our last national congress in December 2024, and had volunteered to be part of the technical support team for the 18th World Congress of the Fourth International in February 2025, but was unable to do so due to illness. We publish below the tribute paid to him by Alain Tondeur at the funeral ceremony in Wondelgem, near Ghent, on April 25.

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