International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• South Africa

  Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists

  7 May, by Patrick Bond

  The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist’, withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations negotiations, and should now be sanctioned. But annual UN COPs (Conferences of the Parties) won’t, because the ‘climate action’ approach is dominated by the West and BRICS. They continue to deny the world long-overdue ‘climate justice’ and they won’t punish Trump’s climate crimes.

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• Britain

  Reform – Labour is feeding the monster

  6 May, by Dave Kellaway

  The centre cannot hold! In the wake of Reform’s massive gains in local elections, Dave Kellaway investigates the new political landscape.

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• East Asia

  East Asia: War and revolution

  5 May, by Pierre Rousset

  Once France had been defeated after the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu (1954), the great powers imposed the Geneva Accords, which were highly unfavourable to the Vietminh, temporarily dividing the country into two military regrouping zones.

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• USA

  May Day in America, is it now here to stay?

  4 May, by Dan La Botz

  May Day is not a holiday in the United States. In most states and cities, it is not celebrated. In some places, in schools or public parks, people put up a May pole and dance around it to celebrate the arrival of spring. We did that in my elementary school in Chicago when I was a child. The official Labor Day in the United States, which is a national holiday, is celebrated on the first Monday in September and marks the end of summer and students’ return to school. But maybe this year things finally changed.

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• 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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...and the rest of the current issue

• Mexico

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

• Zambia

  Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

• USA

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

• Argentina

  Argentina: opposition to Milei revives

• Greece

  Greece: anger in the streets

Recently posted Features

• Marxism and Althusser

  1970: Althusser corrects Marx

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  Writing in the aftermath of May 68, this was a discussion that for Mandel had direct political implications.

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• Obituary

  An Appreciation of Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

  11 May 2020, by George Kerevan

  Socialist Resistance and supporters of the Fourth International were deeply saddened by the recent death of Scottish Marxist writer and activist Neil Davidson from a brain tumour.

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• Marxism

  Why doesn’t official Russian historical politics need the real Lenin and how is his method relevant at a time of crisis

  10 May 2020, by Ilya Budraitskis

  “The (Russian) state needs a Lenin shorn of his political ideas and real biographies, a Lenin-monument. Whenever he becomes a true Lenin, a rebel and destroyer of the old order, the authorities automatically begin to regard him as a monster.”—says the historian and political theorist Ilya Budraitskis. In this comprehensive interview, conducted in Russian by Marine Voskanian for Business-Online and most generously translated for LeftEast by Sean Guillory, Budraitskis explains how Lenin was a heretic for the socialists of his time, and why demanding greater redistribution doesn’t necessarily mean being a leftist.

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• Obituary

  Remembering George Shriver

  10 May 2020, by Paul Le Blanc

  George Shriver was born in India in 1936 of missionary parents. He died April 24, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona.​ Having joined the Socialist Workers’ Party in his 20s, he was a lifelong Fourth Internationalist.

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