International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Taiwan

  Taiwan Strait Crisis: for the right to peace and security in East Asia

  18 August, by Karen Yamanaka

  “We must break the vicious cycle of provocations and stop the nuclear arms race in the East Asian region by tenacious anti-war resistance to the remilitarization. ”

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• Italy

  The 25 September general election, the reactionary, racist and fascist right-wing and how to fight them

  16 August, by Gippó Mukendi Ngandu , Franco Turigliatto

  “For our part, we think it is necessary to support it and search as much as possible for collective work in the construction of a political alternative, and that this must always have a clear class orientation.”

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• Afghanistan

  One Year Since Taliban’s Takeover

  15 August, by Hassan Jan

  It has been a year since Taliban’s takeover of Kabul after the ignominious fall of Western-backed regime of Ashraf Ghani. The so-called democratic experiment of American imperialism and allied Western countries, built by militarily overthrowing Taliban back in 2001, came to an end after twenty years of colossal military expenditures.

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• France

  Radical Left Against the Rise of Neo-Fascism

  14 August, by Franck Gaudichaud, Martí­n Mosquera

  “As anti-capitalists we need to advance our own proposals in a unitary but at the same time radically autonomous way from social-liberalism.”

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• Philippines

  For a definitive end to the prosecution of Walden Bello on charges of “libel” and "cyberlibel”

  13 August, by ESSF

  Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello was arrested on August 8, 2022 on charges of "libel" and "cyberlibel," a charge that carries very heavy penalties in the Philippines.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  “We Must Rebuild a Left-wing Student Union in Ukraine”

• South Africa

  Corruption and neoliberalism in South Africa

• Effects of war in Ukraine

  The Weaponization of Food

• Racism in Europe

  The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation

• Sri Lanka

  “The Canary in the Coal Mine”: Sri Lanka’s Crisis is a Chronicle Foretold

Recently posted Debate

• War in Ukraine

  The Italian Left and the War in Ukraine

  14 August, by Piero Maestri

  
  To strive for a world without war and military repression is to stand with the oppressed in their fight for liberation and to strongly and passionately support the dynamics that arise around the world for this liberation”

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• Eastern Europe

  How the Spheres of Influence Policy Amplifies Reaction

  11 August, by Taras Bilous

  Should the Left support the division of the world into imperialist spheres of influence? A year ago, the very posing of such a question would have surprised me, since the answer seems obvious: of course not. Unfortunately, the apparent sympathy with Russian aggression against Ukraine by many on the Western left has shown that this is not so obvious.
  After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Susan Watkins actually endorsed Putin’s desire to divide Europe into spheres of influence between (...)

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• War in Ukraine

  Swedish Left’s Perspectives on the War in Ukraine

  11 August, by Volodya Vagner

  On solidarity, campism and the reaction of Swedish Left on the wars in Ukraine and Kurdistan.

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• War in Ukraine

  Socialist Internationalism and the Ukraine War

  4 July, by Rohini Hensman

  How do the working people of the world transform themselves from a plethora of groups waging a multitude of scattered struggles for survival and dignity to a revolutionary force capable of ending capitalism, governing the earth, and taking over production? They have innumerable tasks before them, but one of the most important is to overcome divisions among themselves resulting from ethnic supremacism and nationalism. Marxists have been debating this issue from the beginning, but it still (...)

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