International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Lebanon

  Georges has returned, Ziad has left us!

  5 August, by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

  On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, son of the legendary couple Fairouz and Assi Rahbani, took his last breath in a hospital in the Hamra district of Beirut. The Lebanese – and Arab – left is moving from euphoria to tears.

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• Panama

  Protests follow arrest of union leaders in Panama

  4 August, by José Cambra

  Workers and indigenous peoples are mobilizing against the neoliberal agenda of the government of president José Raúl Mulino in Panama. Antônio Neto, from the Brazilian magazine Movimento, interviewed José Cambra on 27 June 2025 about the reasons for the movement, the relationship with US imperialism and the elements of the program of rupture that has become a symbol of popular resistance against austerity and authoritarianism.

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• Ukraine

  Corruption (Ukraine): a victory

  3 August, by Patrick Silberstein

  “For our part, we will know, with the Ukrainian left and the social movement, to walk on both legs as we have done since the beginning of the large-scale war.”

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• Netherlands

  Polski Strajk: first strike amongst temporary workers, mainly Polish migrant workers, in AH and Jumbo distribution centres

  2 August, by John Cozijn

  “Precarious and migrant workers constitute an important part of the working class, often difficult to organise. The success of this strike can give a boost to this work. It is therefore essential to organise solidarity to support and strengthen the strike.”

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• Syria

  Suweida Under Fire: The Consolidation of Power in Damascus, and Sectarianism

  1 August, by Joseph Daher

  “In this context, the recent events in Suweida demonstrate, once again, that Syria is not experiencing a democratic and inclusive political transition. Rather, it is a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime, structured and led by HTS, under the guise of institutional and international legitimacy.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Palestine

  The Mirage of a Palestinian State

• Britain

  New Left party – an historic opportunity?

• Africa

  Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath

• Iran

  The Islamic Republic at the end of its tether

• Namibia

  Colonial violence in Namibia

Recently posted Features

• Gender and Capitalism

  Closing the Conceptual Gap

  10 June 2015, by FTC Manning

  This text raises the question of a unified theory of social relations. Cinzia Arruzza’s essay “Remarks on Gender” reminds us of the debates, left dormant for decades, around creating a unified theory of capital. However, Arruzza’s path toward that unification is one that abdicates the possibility of locating gender and race as part of the abstract, logical, or “essential mechanisms” of capitalism, opting instead to incorporate these pervasive relations as aspects of capitalism’s historical and concrete unfolding.

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• Patriarchy, family, feminism

  Hunter-gatherers: gender equality, a key factor in human evolution?

  5 June 2015, by Jean Batou

  The social organization of humanity before the advent of agriculture tells us a lot about the context in which our species evolved over tens of thousands of years. It is in fact distinguished from that of primates by a more intense collaboration between individuals, which allows the development of a "cumulative culture." Researchers have just shown why gender equality may explain this propensity to associate a higher number of individuals coming from different groups (M. Dyble et al., "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands ", Science, 15 May 2015).

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• European History

  Inside the European Cataclysm

  4 June 2015, by Enzo Traverso

  Writing on a century of violence since the Great War, as World War I was once called, could easily turn into a gallery of horrors or an awful, monotonous succession of wars and genocide, from the battle of Verdun to Baghdad, from the Armenian to the Rwanda genocide, passing through Auschwitz and the Gulag.

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• Feminism and Intersectionality

  Is Feminism about ’Women’? A Critical View on Intersectionality from India

  18 May 2015, by Nivedita Menon

  Feminism requires us to recognise that "women" is neither a stable nor a homogeneous category. Does intersectionality as a universal framework help us to capture this complexity? This paper argues that it does not. It addresses this question through the intricacies of the terrain that feminist politics must negotiate, using the Indian experience to set up conversations with feminist debates and experiences globally. Feminism is heterogeneous and internally differentiated. We need to pay attention to challenges to the stability of given identities— including those of "individual" and "woman." These challenges constitute the radically subversive moments that are likely to be most productive for feminism in the 21st century.

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