International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Canada

  Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism

  25 May, by André Frappier, Bernard Rioux

  While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump’s threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.

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• Palestine

  The Nakba intensifies. May our solidarity grow too!

  24 May, by Olivier Lek Laferrière

  The casualty figures for Gaza have disappeared from the news, while the death toll continues to mount. Some people are used to it, or have been indifferent from the start. Others know that this information alone can no longer transform public opinion, let alone the actions of complicit leaders.

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• Germany

  Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite

  23 May, by Heinrich Neuhaus

  Germany’s latest variant of the GroKo (Grosse Koalition, Grand Coalition), with Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU) as Chancellor and Lars Klingbeil (SPD) as Vice-Chair, aims, according to the coalition agreement, to represent “responsibility for Germany”. Translated from political newspeak, this means that the amount of profits is untouchable.

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• Ecuador

  What happened to the left in Ecuador?

  22 May, by Andrés Madrid

  “The anti-capitalist left has not renewed its strategies after the October and June uprisings either. Its atomization and lack of material and intellectual resources prevent it from building a power project with its own identity. This vacuum paved the way for the Noboa clan to capitalize on the discontent.”

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• Ukraine

  No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!

  21 May, by Elias Vola, Gin Vola

  “If we want to avoid the worst-case scenario, namely Ukraine’s defeat and the strengthening of Russian neo-fascism, international solidarity must be stronger than ever.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Greenland

  For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland’s independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature

• Trump’s foreign policy

  Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy

• Ecuador

  Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right’s plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights

• Ukraine:

  3 years into war, Ukrainian leftists fight for labor rights under martial law

• Portugal

  “We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”

Recently posted Features

• Europe

  One Question:The European Left

  4 December 2018, by Benjamin Opratko , Philippe Marlière, Alen Toplišek, Andrew Schapp, Andrzej ?ebrowski, Antonis Vradis, Bice Maiguashca , Catarina Principe, Catherine Samary, Donatella della Porta, Francoise Vergès, G M Tamás, Josep María Antentas, Marco Vanzulli, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Thomas Fazi

  One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

  This month we ask:

  What are the challenges and opportunities for the Left in Europe?

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• Marxism

  One question: Class struggle today

  3 December 2018, by Shahrzad Mojab, Adam Hanieh, Cenk Saraço?lu, Charles Umney, Cinzia Arruzza, Dario Azzellini, Demet ?ahende Dinler, Guilherme Leite Gonalves, Immanuel Ness, Jeffery R Webber, Justin Akers Chacón, María Pí­a Lara, Raju J Das, Terrell Carver

  One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

  This month we ask:

  What does class struggle mean today?

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• Spanish state

  The long May 68 in the Spanish state

  21 November 2018, by Manuel Garí

  In the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.

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• Internationalism

  Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism

  21 November 2018, by Catherine Samary

  As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

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