International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• The Netherlands

  No return of the centre but consolidation of the far-right and weakening of the left

 in Dutch elections

  12 November, by SAP / Grenzeloos

  Much of the commentary on the results of the Dutch elections of October 29 can be summarised as “the centre is back”. However, the fact that the centrist party D66 won significantly while Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV lost 11 seats is by no means a decisive change in the political pattern of the Netherlands. With 26 out of 150 seats, the PVV now has the same number as seats as D66. And for the Dutch left, there is even less reason to celebrate.

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• USA

  Democratic Socialist Mamdani, Other Democrats Win November Elections

  11 November, by Dan La Botz

  “In his victory speech Mamdani told his supporters that as mayor, ‘We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks’. Directly addressing the president, he said, ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So, hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.’”

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• Philippines

  After Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi): Mourn and Rage for Accountability and demand for ecological transformation

  10 November, by Remo Camote

  Filipinos in the country (and worldwide) are enraged by the devastation brought by the recent typhoon Tino, with the international name Kalmaegi (November 4, 2025).

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• Serbia

  The uprising after the collapse at Novi Sad

  9 November, by Fourth International Serbia delegation

  A year after the collapse of the canopy of the Novi Sad train station, which killed 16 people, the Serbian political landscape has been radically shaken by a student social movement of an intensity not seen in decades. A delegation from the Fourth International, composed of comrades from the GA (Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgium) and the NPA-A (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, France), went to meet political, trade union, associative and student activists, to build bonds of solidarity with them and to bring their words back to our countries.

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• Venezuela

  Nobel Peace Prize: Beyond the Dismay…

  8 November, by Luís Bonilla-Molina

  The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado (MCM) sparked an unusual debate on social media. However, the arguments for and against are more driven by emotion than by reason. Is it possible to approach Venezuelan reality solely in a Manichean way, from the perspective of polarization?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Japan

  Takaichi Administration established by the LDP-JIP Coalition : How to interpret the current Japanese political situation

• Italy

  Three years of Meloni: A model for the international far right

• Tunisia

  The Gulf of Gabès between pollution and successive policies of marginalization

• Britain

  Radicalisation on right and left while centre crumbles in Britain

• USA

  Trump Takes Food from the Poor Poor during Budget Crisis

Recently posted Features

• Interview

  Imperialism, the Arab Spring, and the crisis

  31 December 2011, by David Barsamian , Tariq Ali

  David Barsamian interviewed the well-known anti-imperialist writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 26, 2011 for International Socialist Review.

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• USA

  Occupy Movement Goals: Socialist Revolution or Capitalist Reforms?

  21 November 2011, by Jeff Mackler

  At last count 900 U.S. cities have joined the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Five hundred other cities and towns on every continent have joined the mushrooming mobilizations in solidarity. With each repressive blow, the movement comes back stronger—more inclusive, more confident, and more clearly focused.

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• Syria

  Militarization, military intervention and the absence of strategy

  21 November 2011, by Gilbert Achcar

  I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC - who had come from Syria for the event) in the presence of the most prominent member of the Syrian National Council – its president, Burhan Ghalioun.

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• Marxism in China

  China studies Marxism: twelve pro-capitalist lines

  9 November 2011, by Ian Parker

  Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the market-place all that seemed fixed and fast frozen since the revolution in 1949 but, as with all other forms of capitalism, this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of authority necessary for capital accumulation, and the Chinese state is a key player in the enrichment of a new bourgeoisie. There are particular political-economic and ideological conditions for this transition, of course, and one of the most important is the legacy of Maoism, and how the claim to be a socialist country is squared with the rapid abandonment of each and every tenet of socialism.

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