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

• Debt as a Primeval Weapon of Dispossession (Part 1)

  Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt

  8 September 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Throughout human history, private debt has been used by the dominant classes to subjugate, despoil, expropriate, and dispossess the toiling classes (among whom women have always been the hardest-hit victims): small farmers, artisans, fishers, and on up to the salaried workers of today and the members of their households (students, who go into debt to pursue their education)

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• Populist Philosophy


  From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?

  17 August 2017, by Edgardo Logiudice

  The post-Marxist philosophy of Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) and Chantal Mouffe seems to inspire some leaders and activists of Podemos (Spanish state) and La France Insoumise. In order to better understand the ins and outs of this new philosophy, we reproduce here a critique written in 2014 by an Argentine Marxist, Edgardo Logiudice, a member of the editorial board of the journal Herramienta. This article originally appeared in Herramienta n° 56 (autumn 2015).

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• Marxism

  How is Leninism relevant today?

  16 July 2017, by Paul Le Blanc

  Paul Le Blanc is the author of numerous books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and, most recently, Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History. In this speech presented in London in February at a conference about the Russian Revolution sponsored by the UK organization Counterfire, he considers the relevance of Lenin and the experience of Russia’s Bolsheviks for revolutionary socialists today.

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• Our history

  The Women of 1917

  13 July 2017, by Megan Trudell

  Women weren’t just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.

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