International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Yemen

  The women’s uprising in Yemen

  8 June, by Luiza Toscane

  Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.

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• Italy

  Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

  7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista

  Italy votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.

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• Palestine

  Pity the people of Gaza!

  6 June, by Gilbert Achcar

  What we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement’s rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.

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• Belgium

  Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police

  5 June, by Elena Fernandez Fernandez

  On Monday afternoon, 2 June, in Elisabeth Park in Ganshoren, an 11-year-old child was struck and killed by a police vehicle. Another one. Once again, a young person has lost their life in a police operation. Once again, run over by a police officer. And once again, the institutions react coldly, relaying a version of events that incriminates the victim, while those responsible hide behind complicit investigations that generally lead nowhere.

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• USA

  Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder

  4 June, by Malik Miah

  “His murder led to nationwide and international protests and a reexamination of societal and institutional racism, including policing. Five years later what is the legacy of Floyd’s death and movement for justice and police accountability?”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Panama

  Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

• USA

  Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”

• Kurdistan

  Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives

• Mali

  A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

• Britain

  Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game

Recently posted Features

• 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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• France

  The event itself and its effects... Looking back on May ‘68

  2 May 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  In 2008, in an interview with Francis Sitel for the journal Critique communiste (No. 188) Daniel Bensaïd looked back over the strategic debates which took place in May 1968, and especially in its immediate aftermath, among the militants of what became in 1969 the Communist League. Between enthusiasm for the rise of struggles and fear of being swept away by the ebb tide of the mobilizations, between predictions about the coming revolution and reformist dead ends, it was the question of organization, of the political party, that was posed at that time in new terms for a far left that was overwhelmingly composed of students. Contretemps

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• Russia

  The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

  2 May 2018, by Ilya Budraitskis

  The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real socialism” become blurred and vanish, those necessary for the production of ideology become ever more sharply defined. It’s often argued that communism, buried a quarter of a century ago as living practice, has since acquired an afterlife in the form of a restless corpse, a remnant, a regurgitated survivor from the past, blighting the lives of new generations.

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