International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Palestine solidarity

  Sailing for Palestine

  2 October, by Jennifer Debs, Nico Calabrese

  The Global Sumud Flotilla set out in the vital attempt to break the Gaza blockade, the Israel navy has now intercepted almost all the boats as they neared Gaza. This has provoked worldwide protests. Jennifer Debs interviewed Nico Calabrese who joined the flotilla.

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• France

  Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward

  1 October, by Léon Crémieux

  France finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron’s government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government whilst facing its most severe social unrest since the yellow vest movement.

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• Germany

  “A left-wing, grassroots orientation allows you to score points in times of polarization”

  30 September, by Antoine Larrache, Violetta Bock

  Our comrade Violetta Bock presents the situation in Germany and her work as a Member of Parliament for Die Linke, which consists of making a link between the working classes and the contesting of an increasingly unstable power. She spoke to Antoine Larrache.

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• USA

  Trump Increases Repression Against Political Enemies and the Left

  29 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump, breaking with U.S. norms, is using the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies, going after liberal and progressive foundations and NGOs, and sending more troops to another American city to intimidate protestors. He has fired Justice Department attorneys who are unwilling to put his orders above the law and replaced them with flunkeys who will carry out his demands. He has promised “retribution” to his high-level political opponents and is now meting it out. And he is also targeting the political left, saying he will designate Antifa, that is the anti-fascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization, though there is no antifa organization and no legal designation for domestic terrorism. To carry out his campaign against Antifa he is sending troops to Portland, Oregon.

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• Ecosocialism

  II Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting: Free Territories and Convergence for Action

  28 September, by Vanessa Dourado

  The current times, with the rise of the far right and genocidal wars, mark an era where the contradictions of the current system of production, distribution, and consumption demonstrate that we are in a higher stage of the already characterised civilisational crisis. However, this is not just another of Capitalism’s cyclical crises. The metabolic rupture, this irreparable breach in the natural cycle of exchange between human society and nature, challenges human beings’ ability to provide responses compatible with the acceleration of socio-environmental destruction.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Nepal

  The Nepalese paroxysmal crisis and its regional context

• Palestine

  Flotilla approaches Gaza

• Ukraine

  War of drones or war of nerves

• Italy - Palestine solidarity

  Finally, a general strike!

• Brazil

  Hundreds of thousands protest against amnesty for Bolsonaro

Recently posted Features

• USA

  After the Fire: Reconstructing Los Angeles Towards Abolition

  29 January, by Promise Li

  When the Eaton Fire first began its retreat from Altadena, I was in one of many self-organized mutual aid teams scattered across the area, cleaning up debris. Around this time, I connected with some Black community members who had just lost their homes. They had returned from evacuation almost immediately to help coordinate mutual aid for their neighbors. But they were harassed by the police as they tried to return to their homes. Hundreds of armed California National Guard, summoned by Los Angeles police and sheriffs, had effectively begun occupying parts of Altadena. The fires already disproportionately affected Western Altadena, the historically Black area of the city where most of the deaths have been located so far and where residents were given notices to evacuate hours after those in majority-white areas of Altadena were informed. [1]

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• In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961

  27 January, by Éric Toussaint

  On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).

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• Ukraine

  Ukraine’s Debt: an instrument of pressure and spoliation in the hands of creditors

  26 January, by Éric Toussaint

  In the present article the author focuses on Ukraine’s debt since the 1990s and more particularly in the years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. It provides answers to several questions. Who are Ukraine’s creditors? How much are they owed? What do they demand in exchange for their loans? What part does the European Union play? Why does Ukraine’s integration into the EU go against the Ukrainian people’s interests? What is done with frozen Russian assets? Why should Ukraine’s debt be cancelled? Why does Zelensky oppose any cancellation? What are the alternatives to current indebtedness? Some questions are not addressed for want of space such as the stage the conflict has reached, the provision of weapons, the debates within the Left.

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• Environment

  Environmental and climate debt: Who is responsible?

  18 January, by Maxime Perriot, Éric Toussaint

  The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized. That recognition must take the form of cancellation of the debt of the countries of the Global South and paying of reparations by the States of the North. The latter must compel the wealthiest interests to contribute and assume responsibility for climate disruption and for taking the actions that are urgently needed to limit its consequences and its aggravation to the maximum extent possible.

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