International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Nigeria

  Nigeria: against oil industry impunity

  3 May, by Paul Martial

  The Niger Delta has been totally devastated by decades of oil exploitation in Nigeria by the major Western oil companies. Huge tracts of land and mangrove swamps have been totally contaminated by oil, destroying all living things. People’s livelihoods, such as fishing and farming, have been wiped out. There is no longer any drinking water, and the air is polluted by the dozens of flares that burn continuously.

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• Mexico

  Mexico: “The right-wing parties are practically in the worst phase of their history”

  2 May, by Fabrice Thomas, José Luis

  José Luis is an activist in the Fourth International and a member of the Mexican electricians’ union. He spoke to Fabrice Thomas while visiting Europe for the world congress of the Fourth International.

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• Zambia

  Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

  1 May, by Paul Martial

  Despite recurring environmental disasters and the dangers to the population, the government of Zambia continues its extractivist policy. The southern African country has once again been hit by major pollution. 50 million tonnes of acidic sludge were discharged into the watercourse running alongside the Chinese company Sino Metals in Chambishi, which processes copper ores.

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• USA

  Trump and America: One-hundred days in the waiting room of fascism

  30 April, by Dan La Botz

  Since taking office 100 days ago, President Donald Trump has been engaged in destroying America’s liberal, democratic state and its social welfare systems, taking away citizens’ and non-citizens’ rights, and attacking the institutions of civil society such as universities and the media. Trump’s attack on our government and our society has shocked, disoriented, and disconcerted the American people. The resistance has been growing, but is still too divided, small, and weak to stop Trump

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• Argentina

  Argentina: opposition to Milei revives

  29 April, by Elias Vola

  After many months without a significant opposition movement to the government of President Javier Milei on the streets of Argentina, the 36-hour cross-industry strike of 9-10 April and the social reality of the country have brought the movement back to life.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Greece

  Greece: anger in the streets

• USA

  Trump reinvents war capitalism

• Palestine

  We need to talk about Gaza more than ever

• Sudan

  The Other Catastrophe: Genocide and Famine in Sudan

• Ecology

  Agriculture: Our proposals for small-scale farming

Recently posted Features

• Debt as a Primeval Weapon of Dispossession (Part 3)

  Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt in the global South

  8 September 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  The "debt system" is gathering steam In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, just as in the highly industrialized countries, after going through several fundamental changes over the past 40 years. Mainly since the outbreak of the Third World debt crisis in the early 1980s.

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• 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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