International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Iran
  

  Resumption of Bombing and Internal Crisis in Iran

  17 August, by Babak Kia

  The ceasefire between the US and Iran was shattered around the question of control of the Strait of Hormuz. As the US bombing resumes, divisions are deepening at the top of the Islamic Republic, with no way out for the people of Iran.

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• USA
  

  Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

  16 August, by Malik Miah

  TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.

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• Latin America
  

  The spectre of the far right is haunting Latin America

  15 August, by Eduardo Lucita

  Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.

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• Spanish State
  

  Ceuta: the boundary of the right to have rights

  14 August, by Miguel Urbán Crespo

  Last Friday [31 July], thousands of people swam across the border to reach the autonomous city of Ceuta. This enclave of some 83,000 people received, in a matter of 24 hours, just over 50,000 more people, exhausted from a migratory journey that has caused the deaths of at least 100 in the last two days. In summer, arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla by sea increase significantly, as sea fog hinders early detection on the coast by the Civil Guard. But no one in the government seemed to foresee a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, with significant political repercussions that extend far beyond the usual media headlines.

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• Ukraine
  

  The Wrong Lever: Europe, Ukraine, and the Refugee Question

  13 August, by Adam Novak

  EU leaders are moving towards removal of asylum rights for Ukrainian men aged 23-60, to improve conscription and functioning of essential services in the fifth year of Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialist aggression. The Zelenskiy government asked for this change. But that does not make the policy right.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  In Kyiv, the street makes its voice heard

• Italy

  The battle for the beaches in Italy

• Morocco:

  New escalation of repression in the face of rising resistance

• Tunisia

  Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

• Balkans

  The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans

Recently posted Features

• May 1968

  1968 – It was just the beginning

  7 June 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  Although the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968 provides the opportunity for new celebrations, new tributes and testimonies, for extensions of previous historiographical research, few writings take seriously the political questions raised by this event. However, ten years after the beautiful month of May, in 1978, the event was still live, and even though social setbacks were being announced and the crisis was beginning to install itself, it was still politics and not history that people were discussing with regard to May 1968. Hence the interest in plunging back into the debates of that time, with this article by Daniel Bensaïd, published in 1978 in a review of the Revolutionary Communist League, Les Cahiers de la taupe (No. 23, dated May-June 1978).[Contretemps]

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• Our history

  Just Short of the "Conscious Leap": Ernest Mandel in 1968

  26 May 2018, by Jan Willem Stutje

  Jan Willem Stutje’s Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred, published by Verso in a translation by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker in 2009, is the first biography of the great Belgian intellectual and militant of the Fourth International.

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• Indonesia

  1968: A Crushing Defeat for the Indonesian Left

  25 May 2018, by Vannessa Hearman

  In 1968, Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime obliterated the Indonesian Communist Party’s efforts to rebuild after the 1965 massacre.

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• May 1968

  1968: a “global moment”, the political commitment of a militant generation

  23 May 2018, by Pierre Rousset

  How can we make the decade 1965-1975 come alive again, how can we highlight what was at stake in the world and in France, its scope, our commitment, our activist universe? Through analysis certainly, but reinforced by lived experience, which is necessarily more personal. This is a delicate exercise, with a constant coming and going between general considerations, the transmission of a political history that is sometimes specific (that of my political current) and its individual, daily implications. To this end, I am mobilizing my own memories - and I am wary of memory and especially of mine, which I know is incomplete. I am therefore appealling for a confrontation of recollections (or archives) that could lead me to correct or qualify some of my remarks.

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