International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Syria

  A nightmare ends, towards what hope in Syria?

  27 December, by Thomas Rid

  Bashar al-Assad has fallen. No one will regret it. In twenty years of dictatorship and ten years of civil war, he and his clique succeeded in transforming Syria into a hellish dystopia, doubtless worse than Iraq under Saddam Hussein, although the latter had set the bar very high. Syria, or at least what was left of it, had become nothing more than a huge Captagon laboratory, run by dealers as corrupt as they were vicious. They left the Syrian people who had not left this undead country with only one prospect, misery and suffering, and only one choice: become a victim or an executioner.

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• Africa

  The looters’ ball in Africa

  26 December, by Paul Martial

  This was US President Joe Biden’s first and last trip to Africa, just a few weeks before the end of his mandate. His visit to Angola at the beginning of December was not insignificant, as the country is the centrepiece of a major investment for the USA and the European Union (EU): the Lobito Corridor. The Lobito Corridor project, from Zambia to Angola, is part of a heightened inter-imperialist competition for control of Africa’s critical resources.

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• USA

  The Chaos Known and Unknown

  25 December, by Against the Current Editors

  The advent of “Trump 2.0” poses dangers and challenges in U.S. society as well as globally — including the non-trivial problem of surviving environmental catastrophe — and most certainly to the social movement and socialist left. We will attempt here to sort through those elements of the swirling chaos that are pretty well known, and suggest where the uncertainties may lie. We know for sure that all our movements will be under attack — and it’s absolutely essential to stand together and refuse to be intimidated or divided. How extreme the assaults may become isn’t certain, and the strength of immediate resistance can make a big difference.

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• Ireland

  Closure of the Israeli embassy in Dublin: good riddance!

  24 December, by Awena Connolly

  “Ireland’s anti-Semitic actions and rhetoric against Israel are rooted in the delegitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, and in double standards.” This is how Gideon Sa’ar, the Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced the closure of the Israeli embassy in Dublin on 15 December, 2024.

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• USA

  Elon Musk Goes Full Fascist

  23 December, by Dan La Botz

  Elon Musk, the world’s richest man with $430 billion in personal wealth, became an advisor to president-elect Donald Trump a few months ago. Now he is something more. Politicians and the media now refer to him as the “shadow president,” “co-president” or even call him “president Musk.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Hong Kong

  The National Security Law (NSL) in force: The NSL 47 trial an important landmark in Beijing’s annihilation of Hong Kong’s autonomy

• Switzerland

  New left-wing wind on the shores of Lake Geneva?

• Italy

  "The strike of 29 November is a sign of the resumption of social conflict, after a long period of passivity”

• Chad

  France-Chad, the end of the affair…

• Environment

  New Delhi is suffocating

Recently posted Features

• Britain

  Debate on the Left in Britain – towards a new broad party?

  17 November, by Dave Kellaway

  “British politics has become much more volatile and the hold of the two mainstream parties, Labour and the Conservatives, over the electorate has become weaker. ”

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• Latin America

  Thinking about the (new) paths of the Latin American left and right in a world in crisis

  17 October, by Éric Toussaint, Franck Gaudichaud

  We are publishing the foreword written by Franck Gaudichaud and Éric Toussaint at the request of the Cuban magazine Temas for a book coordinated by Julio César Guanche, to be published in Argentina under the title Izquierdas y derechas en America latina.

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• Ukraine

  The Ukrainian left is building on several fronts

  27 September, by Catherine Samary

  “The aim here is to shed light on the specific profile of this young left, based on its activist practice at the heart of Ukrainian society and breaking with the dominant contradictory interpretations of the ‘Euro-Maidan’ (2013-2014) that divide the left and are exploited by Putin.”

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• Imperialism

  Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world

  11 September, by Federico Fuentes, Kevin B Anderson

  Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin’s writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.

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