International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Spanish state

  Because it won’t be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?

  17 June, by Daniel Albarracín

  The blackout of April 28 shook the Iberian Peninsula and southern France for several hours. Everyone who lives there was affected in some way. It has been a topic of conversation that, to avoid remaining an anecdote, requires some in-depth analysis, given the systemic risks of a repeat. We must draw lessons for the future.

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• USA

  No Kings! Freedom! Millions Protest Trump across the United States

  16 June, by Dan La Botz

  At least five million people participated in 2,000 “No Kings Day” protests in big cities and small towns in all 50 states, the largest yet in a series of national demonstrations. In a festive but defiant spirit, with bands and drummers, the marchers chanted, sang songs, and waved their signs with slogans like “No Kings since 1776” or signs opposing President Donald Trump’s attacks on health care, food programs for children and the elderly, or his attacks on education and science. Some banners read “Fight Oligarchy.”

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• Portugal

  Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections

  15 June, by Daniel Borges

  The results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections on 18 May 2025 mark a turning point in the country’s politics. The traditional right was comfortably in the lead and the Socialist Party has fewer deputies than the far right (after counting the votes of the emigrant constituencies). The right-wing parties as a whole won two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, while the left obtained the lowest result in its history.
  All the parties to the left of the PS recorded their lowest results. (…)

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• USA

  The battle of Los Angeles

  14 June, by Tempest Collective

  As "No Kings" protests take place across the US - and in other cities worldwide such as Mexico DF, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - challenging Trump’s authoritarian rule, we publish this on the spot account of last weekend in Los Angeles.

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• Ukraine

  Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...

  13 June, by Gin Vola, Elias Vola

  Resistance to the Russian invasion has not erased class divisions within Ukrainian society. The inequalities of our capitalist societies and the brutal neoliberalism applied by the Zelensky government are significantly affecting the population of Ukraine. The popular classes thus fight on a "double front", against anti-social policies and imperialist aggression.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Serbia

  Student protest in Serbia: “either we stop or there will be a civil war”

• Italy

  Left fails to win its referendums in Italy

• South Sudan

  Peace under threat in South Sudan

• USA

  As Immigration Protests Grow, Trump Calls Out National Guard

• Yemen

  The women’s uprising in Yemen

Recently posted Features

• Covid-19 statement

  Theses on the Left and the corona crisis

  25 March 2020, by Jan Willem Stutje, Paul Mepschen, Willem Bos

  1. The corona crisis is a crisis of unprecedented magnitude and will have dramatic consequences. It involves a global health crisis, a health care crisis and a financial and economic crisis. In a world that has long been characterized by a high degree of instability, by lack of international leadership and the rise of nationalism, racism and right-wing populism, as well as the weak level of organization of the working class, of social and left-wing movements.

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• Covid-19 statement

  Statement by Socialist Resurgence on Covid-19

  25 March 2020, by Socialist Resurgence National Committee

  The rise of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, brought the global economy to a crashing halt. Virtually all of the contradictions of capitalism, some previously hidden behind an economic boom, are brought into stark relief amidst lockdowns, panic, and emergency measures.

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• Obituary

  The trade unionist Manuel Graça has died (1953-2020)

  18 March 2020

  On Saturday, 14 March, the trade unionist Manuel Graça died. A member of the LCI and the PSR, and a founder of Bloco de Esquerda, Graça was for two decades the Coordinator of the Union of Shoemakers, Bag makers and Associated Trades in the Aveiro district.

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• Feminism in Britain

  Fifty years of feminist organising in Britain – challenges for the future

  9 March 2020, by Terry Conway

  Terry Conway is a social feminist and LGBTIQ activist. She is LGBT officer in Islington North Labour Party, Chair of Hackney and Islington Unite Community and officer of Labour Women Leading and a supporter of Socialist Resistance. This is an edited and expanded version of a contribution she made at a meeting at Houseman’s bookshop on March 4.

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