International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Municipal socialism
  

  How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

  13 January, by Iain Bruce

  Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

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• iran
  

  A new popular uprising in Iran

  12 January, by Sarah Selami

  “Faced with these mobilizations, the authorities have responded with repression, mass arrests and violence. However, the experience of the movements of 2017, 2019 and 2022 shows that this strategy has never made it possible to impose submission in the long term. The current protests are thus part of a continuity of recurrent protests. ”

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• USA
  

  ICE Murder of Minneapolis Woman Leads to Grief, Anger, Sparks National Protests

  11 January, by Dan La Botz

  Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of Renèe Nicole Good, a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tens of thousands joined “ICE Out For Good” protests in a thousand towns and cities on January 10 and 11. In New York protestors signs read, “Abolish ICE Now!”, “Masks Off! No Secret Police.”, “Trump Must Go Now”. Passing in front of Trump Tower protestors shouted, “Fuck Trump!”

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• Poland
  

  Valeo Poland - a first success

  10 January, by NPA Auto Critique

  Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

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• Venezuela

  Trumpist recolonization and the coming resistance in Venezuela

  9 January, by Luís Bonilla-Molina

  “Up to 2 January, the main task of revolutionaries was to recover the minimum democratic freedoms that would allow the working class to express its opinion and organize itself to confront the imperialist offensive and the authoritarian drift of the Maduro government. Since 3 January, and after the White House’s announcements of turning Venezuela into a gringo colony, the priority has become the defence of national independence with the broadest regime of political freedoms for patriotic forces. The facts will tell if the situation evolves towards a stage of national liberation.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Philippines

  From Flood Fund Plunder to Environmental Plunder – On the Moral, Political, and Ecological Crises Shaping the Philippines

• Palestine

  The ethnic cleansing of Gaza by NGOs and Somaliland

• France

  Feminist struggles against the far right and repression

• Ukraine

  The reality of the front belies the Kremlin’s little music

• USA-Venezuela

  Trump Abducts Maduro in Violent Attack, Says U.S. Will Run Venezuela and its Oil

Recently posted Features

• US Imperialism’s pivot to Asia

  16 April 2013, by Ashley Smith

  In his second inaugural address, President Obama announced that after he withdraws combat troops from Afghanistan, the United States will be “ending a decade of wars.” On the very same day, the United States conducted three drone strikes in Yemen. In reality, Washington is now in a permanent state of “low-intensity” drone wars all around the world and is preparing, through what has been called the Pivot to Asia, to contain China. Obama is no pacifist. In his second term, he intends not to retreat from American imperial assertion but to strengthen it.

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• Ecology

  A critique of the ecosocialist manifesto of the Parti de Gauche

  24 March 2013, by Daniel Tanuro

  Daniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) [1]. In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to the crucial debate on the necessary ecosocialist strategy.

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• Britain

  Socialist Feminism: Hidden from history

  7 March 2013, by Terry Conway

  It is usual that for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution — in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event. On other occasions we have looked at the role that women are playing in struggles today abroad as well as at home.
  In this article I am doing something a bit different — to start to celebrate the role that socialist feminists played in second wave feminism in Britain.

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• The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)

  7 March 2013, by John Riddell

  The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders.

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