International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• 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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• Japan
  

  Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election

  24 February, by Toshizo Omori

  What Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?

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• 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

• USA

  Lessons from Minneapolis

Recently posted Features

• The Feminist Horizon

  6 March 2018, by Jodie Dean

  As the organizers of the International Women’s Strike (IWS) have declared, March 8, 2018 will be “a day of feminism for the 99 percent.” One year ago to the day, International Women’s Day, women and their allies around the globe participated in the first International Women’s Strike, which was billed as “A Day Without a Woman.” Building on the international momentum from the Women’s March earlier in 2017, strikers took to the streets and demonstrated from Tokyo to Rome, Istanbul to Mexico City, Manila to Los Angeles. In the United States, school districts in multiple states were shut down, demonstrators filled city centers and university grounds—even some elected officials in Washington, D.C., showed solidarity.

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• Our history

  MLK: To the Promised Land

  28 February 2018, by Charles Williams

  Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice, to be published on the 50th anniversary of King’s April 4, 1968 assassination. He was interviewed by Charles Williams of the Against the Current editorial board. Their discussion of Michael Honey’s earlier book Going Down Jericho Road is here.

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• Obituary

  On the death of Carl T Brecker, AIDC Chairperson 1996 – 2006

  2 February 2018, by Brian Ashley, MP Giyose

  It is with a profound sense of sadness that we at AIDC have heard the news of the passing of Carl Brecker, the first Chairperson of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). We send our condolences to his family, especially his devoted daughters Tania and Dee, their children as well as his sister Valerie and her husband Ivan.

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• Marxism

  The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle

  22 January 2018, by Peter Saxtrup Nielsen

  Regardless of one’s opinion on The Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of Russian society, the self-organized workers’ councils – the soviets – remain an important breakthrough. For the most part, the discussion of the centenary of the revolution has conveniently steered clear of this subject. Nonetheless, understanding the soviets and its council structure remains central to understanding both how the revolution came about, and what its goals were. “All power to the soviets”, the slogan went, but what power, and what are soviets actually? These are central questions for any future attempts to change the world.

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