International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Canada

  Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism

  25 May, by André Frappier, Bernard Rioux

  While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump’s threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.

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• Palestine

  The Nakba intensifies. May our solidarity grow too!

  24 May, by Olivier Lek Laferrière

  The casualty figures for Gaza have disappeared from the news, while the death toll continues to mount. Some people are used to it, or have been indifferent from the start. Others know that this information alone can no longer transform public opinion, let alone the actions of complicit leaders.

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• Germany

  Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite

  23 May, by Heinrich Neuhaus

  Germany’s latest variant of the GroKo (Grosse Koalition, Grand Coalition), with Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU) as Chancellor and Lars Klingbeil (SPD) as Vice-Chair, aims, according to the coalition agreement, to represent “responsibility for Germany”. Translated from political newspeak, this means that the amount of profits is untouchable.

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• Ecuador

  What happened to the left in Ecuador?

  22 May, by Andrés Madrid

  “The anti-capitalist left has not renewed its strategies after the October and June uprisings either. Its atomization and lack of material and intellectual resources prevent it from building a power project with its own identity. This vacuum paved the way for the Noboa clan to capitalize on the discontent.”

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• Ukraine

  No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!

  21 May, by Elias Vola, Gin Vola

  “If we want to avoid the worst-case scenario, namely Ukraine’s defeat and the strengthening of Russian neo-fascism, international solidarity must be stronger than ever.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Greenland

  For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland’s independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature

• Trump’s foreign policy

  Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy

• Ecuador

  Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right’s plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights

• Ukraine:

  3 years into war, Ukrainian leftists fight for labor rights under martial law

• Portugal

  “We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”

Recently posted Features

• Holocaust

  1990: “Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide”

  27 January 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  This is the text of Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., Révision de l’Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et génocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74.
  The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232.

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• An Unrepentant ’68er’s Life

  19 January 2020, by Kay Mann

  An Impatient Life by Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach
  Foreword by Tariq Ali.Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages.

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• Our history

  An open history: Blanqui and Bensaïd

  12 January 2020, by Émile Carmes

  All thinkers have their father-thinkers; none more so than Daniel Bensaïd. The figures of Charles Péguy, Walter Benjamin and Louis Auguste Blanqui recur throughout his work. In this article, Émile Carmes studies Bensaïd’s deep engagement over the years with the work of Blanqui.

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• Feminism and Marxism

  Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament

  30 November 2019, by Julia Camara, Laia Facet

  The characteristics of the current crisis, as well as the practical and theoretical course of recent years, have allowed a fruitful dialogue between two of the central theoretical currents of the last two centuries, feminism and Marxism. With a past history of marriages and divorces it seems that in recent years we are witnessing their reconciliation. In the past decade, the literature that is indebted to both currents has been rediscovering, as well as overcoming, some of the historical debates that have marked their relationship. Undoubtedly, the mass growth of the feminist movement has contributed to this. And, on the other hand, it not surprising that during recent years there has been a renewal of academic and activist interest in Marxism: university seminars proliferate, the works of classical thinkers have been reissued and so on.

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