International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world

  16 December, by Ana C. Carvalhaes

  Openly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump’s national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.

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• USA

  Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract

  15 December, by Dan La Botz

  Thousands of Starbucks workers continue their fight for a union contract with strikes and rallies across the country. The latest strike began on November 13 and continues off-and-on at stores across the country. In mid-December some 3,800 Starbucks baristas were on strike at more than 180 stores in over 130 cities. The union, Starbucks Workers United claims a total 14,000 members at about 650 stores.

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• France

  1995, the year of the social movement

  14 December, by Hélène Adam

  “Thirty years ago, the largest mass mobilization since May 68 thwarted the Juppé Plan, the public sector pension plan, and clearly stood in defence of a model of society based on solidarity and public service.”

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• Syria

  Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition

  13 December, by Joseph Daher

  Syria’s post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa.

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• Indonesia

  Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power

  12 December, by Pierre Rousset

  Cyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny.
  A week after the cyclone passed, it is still impossible to measure the full extent of the devastation in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. At least 961 people have lost their lives, with nearly 300 still missing, over 156,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, (…)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  Fighting for the Least Unjust Peace

• International Anti-Fascist Conference

  Launch of the International Committee for the Anti-Fascist and for the Sovereignty of Peoples Conference

• Morocco

  GenZ 212 movement in Morocco

• USA

  Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance

• Poland

  Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland

Recently posted Features

• Political theory

  Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution

  20 January 2014, by Helmut Dahmer

  The so-called “Leninist” orthodoxy is history, and the campaign that Stalin and his ideologists launched for decades against “Luxemburgism”, which they identified since 1931 with their most hated nightmare, “Trotskyism”, has fallen into oblivion. So we are free to examine the Marxist theories on the structure of the Russian society and the prospects of a revolutionary uprising against the rule of the Czar – written a century ago –, in order to explore the capacity of these theories to present an explanation of the state of affairs – one hundred years ago – and a prognosis of its future development (in and after 1917).

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• Queering Socialism:

  An Interview with Alan Sears

  29 December 2013, by Alan Sears

  We’re at an interesting (and terrible) moment where we’re witnessing attacks on most every gain working people have made for at least the last half century. The curious exception to that has been the advance of marriage and civil rights for gay and lesbian couples in many U.S. states and core imperialist countries. But while we can celebrate the dismantling of many of the legal barriers to equality, we need to be mindful of the cost assimilation has had on “gay” communities, the movement’s relationship to other progressive causes, and lastly how it measures up to radical ideas of gender and sexual freedom.

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• Sexual politics:

  Black feminism and intersectionality

  29 December 2013, by Sharon Smith

  “Although we are in essential agreement with Marx’s theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women.”
  —the Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977

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• Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era

  28 December 2013, by Tithi Bhattacharya

  Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the woman, thirty-three-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, a housekeeper at Strauss-Kahn’s hotel who was also at the time seeking asylum in the United States from her native Guinea, a former colony of France.

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