International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Anti-fascism
  

  Three general characteristics of the new era of fascism

  4 April, by Ivan Drury Zarin

  Fascism has been, over the last decade, and especially more recently, an object of vigorous debate on the left. But, as a long editorial from the Salvage collective bemoaned about debates over what to make of Russia’s war on Ukraine, much of this debate has been stuck in the ditch of historical analogy. Is Trumpism more like Mussolini’s or Hitler’s fascism? When we stack up all the measures of rights violated and attacked, does the far right today pass the test of comparison with major fascist events of the 20th century?

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• Britain
  

  Together against the far right march breaks records

  3 April, by Echo Fortune, Terry Conway

  The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.

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• France
  

  France: Local elections create springboard for left division

  2 April, by Léon Crémieux

  Local elections were held in France on 15 March (first round) and 22 (second round). The confusion that has emerged, one year before the presidential election, is a sign of a fragmentation of the central bloc and the right, which is likely to produce a shift towards the far right and, in the face of this, a splintering of the forces of the Nouveau Front populaire (New Popular Front - NFP) which compromises the construction of a unitary alternative.

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• Lebanon
  

  Zionist expansionism in Lebanon seizes upon Hezbollah as a pretext

  1 April, by Gilbert Achcar

  Never had a military initiative of the Lebanese Hezbollah (literally, Party of God) been so much repudiated in Lebanon as its decision on March 2 to launch rockets across the country’s southern border with the Israeli state, in retaliation against the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This opening salvo was immediately seized upon by the Zionist state as a pretext to launch a long-premeditated invasion of southern Lebanon.

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• Palestine/France
  

  Land Day, day of struggle for Palestine

  31 March, by Édouard Soulier

  Land Day, on 30 March, marks a central moment in Palestinian history: in 1976, a general strike broke out in historic Palestine against the confiscation of land belonging to Arabs by the state of Israel. It was the first mass mobilization of Palestinians in the 1948 territories, where they are supposed to be “equal”. The targeted lands are located in particular in Sakhnin, Arraba and Deir Hanna, as part of the policy of “Judaizing Galilee”. On that day, six unarmed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during demonstrations. 50 years later, the Palestinians are still there and continue to fight against the confiscation of land and the bloody repression of the Israeli state.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  Millions march Against Trump’s war and immigration policies

• Italy

  The people’s vote has rejected the right‑wing’s government’s subversive plan

• Britain

  No to antisemitism – no to all racism

• France

  After the municipal elections, build an anti-fascist front

• Kanaky

  Mobilization on 21 March against colonialism

Recently posted Features

• USA

  The Politics of Mass Incarceration

  22 January 2015

  James Kilgore is a longtime activist, writer and researcher. He currently lives in Urbana, Illinois, where has been involved in local movements to pass a Ban the Box initiative (taking questions about criminal background off employment applications) and opposing the building of a new county jail. He spent six and a half years in prison (2002-09) for his participation in political violence in the 1970s. He has published three novels, all of which were drafted while he was incarcerated. His next book is A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration, to be published by The New Press in 2015.

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• Scotland

  The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state

  5 December 2014, by Neil Davidson

  The British state and its party structures are in crisis. What new forms of political expressions has the Scottish referendum brought into play? This article examines the social and political forces behind 2014.

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• Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (part 7)

  The European Central Bank’s true priorities

  4 December 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  We have seen that since the beginning of the 2007-2008 crisis, the ECB has played a vital role in saving the big private banks, their owners and directors, while at the same time guaranteeing the continuity of their privileges. We can clearly see that without the ECB, the big banks would have sunk and that would have forced the authorities to take very severe action against them. Beyond bank bail-outs, the ECB is charged with maintaining an inflation rate of around 2%.

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• Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (part 6)

  The big private banks run on LTRO

  4 December 2014, by Éric Toussaint

  From 2012, the banks were overflowing with cash and made massive purchases of the bonds issued by their own countries. Sovereign debt securities do not require equity, as they are considered to be non-risk. [1]

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