International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• 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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• Panama

  Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

  3 June, by José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-Molina

  A small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.

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• USA

  Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”

  2 June, by Dan La Botz

  America had two previous political purges of the left, the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, and now we’re in the midst of the Trump purge—and it’s worse than the earlier ones.

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• Kurdistan

  Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives

  1 June, by Mireille Court

  On February 2025, from the Turkish island of Imrali where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, “Apo” (uncle) as he is affectionately known to the Kurds, called for the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and an end to the armed struggle in Turkey. The stunned reaction of some international opinion showed the extent to which the PKK’s political evolution had been ignored.

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• Mali

  A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

  31 May, by Paul Martial

  The ban on political parties in Mali is a further step in the consolidation of a dictatorship incapable of curbing jihadist attacks. From now on, all political parties in Mali will be dissolved. This was a recommendation of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the legislative body set up by the junta that seized power in 2021.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Britain

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

• Portugal

  Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

• South Africa

  South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

• Madagascar

  Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy

• USA

  Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt

Recently posted Features

• Debt as a Primeval Weapon of Dispossession (part 2)

  Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt

  8 September 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Throughout human history, private debt has been used by the dominant classes to subjugate, despoil, expropriate, and dispossess the toiling classes (among whom women have always been the hardest-hit victims): small farmers, artisans, fishers, and on up to the salaried workers of today and the members of their households (students, who go into debt to pursue their education). [1] The process is simple: the lender requires that borrowers pledge their possessions as collateral. This can be, for example, the land held and cultivated by the farmer, or in the case of an artisan, the tools of his or her trade. Repayment of the loan must be made in cash or in kind. Since the interest rates are high, to repay the loan the borrower must transfer a large share of the fruits of his or her labour to the lender, and so becomes impoverished. If the borrower defaults on repayment, the borrower is dispossessed of the pledged collateral. In some societies, that can mean a loss of freedom for the debtor and/or the members of his or her family. This is called debt slavery. Under the laws of the United States and certain European countries, failure to repay a debt was punishable by physical mutilation until the early 19th century. And still today, in Europe and elsewhere, non-repayment of debts may be punishable by imprisonment.

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• Debt as a Primeval Weapon of Dispossession (Part 1)

  Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt

  8 September 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Throughout human history, private debt has been used by the dominant classes to subjugate, despoil, expropriate, and dispossess the toiling classes (among whom women have always been the hardest-hit victims): small farmers, artisans, fishers, and on up to the salaried workers of today and the members of their households (students, who go into debt to pursue their education)

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• Populist Philosophy


  From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?

  17 August 2017, by Edgardo Logiudice

  The post-Marxist philosophy of Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) and Chantal Mouffe seems to inspire some leaders and activists of Podemos (Spanish state) and La France Insoumise. In order to better understand the ins and outs of this new philosophy, we reproduce here a critique written in 2014 by an Argentine Marxist, Edgardo Logiudice, a member of the editorial board of the journal Herramienta. This article originally appeared in Herramienta n° 56 (autumn 2015).

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• Marxism

  How is Leninism relevant today?

  16 July 2017, by Paul Le Blanc

  Paul Le Blanc is the author of numerous books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and, most recently, Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History. In this speech presented in London in February at a conference about the Russian Revolution sponsored by the UK organization Counterfire, he considers the relevance of Lenin and the experience of Russia’s Bolsheviks for revolutionary socialists today.

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