International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Municipal socialism
  

  How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

  13 January, by Iain Bruce

  Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

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• iran
  

  A new popular uprising in Iran

  12 January, by Sarah Selami

  “Faced with these mobilizations, the authorities have responded with repression, mass arrests and violence. However, the experience of the movements of 2017, 2019 and 2022 shows that this strategy has never made it possible to impose submission in the long term. The current protests are thus part of a continuity of recurrent protests. ”

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• USA
  

  ICE Murder of Minneapolis Woman Leads to Grief, Anger, Sparks National Protests

  11 January, by Dan La Botz

  Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of Renèe Nicole Good, a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tens of thousands joined “ICE Out For Good” protests in a thousand towns and cities on January 10 and 11. In New York protestors signs read, “Abolish ICE Now!”, “Masks Off! No Secret Police.”, “Trump Must Go Now”. Passing in front of Trump Tower protestors shouted, “Fuck Trump!”

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• Poland
  

  Valeo Poland - a first success

  10 January, by NPA Auto Critique

  Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

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• Venezuela

  Trumpist recolonization and the coming resistance in Venezuela

  9 January, by Luís Bonilla-Molina

  “Up to 2 January, the main task of revolutionaries was to recover the minimum democratic freedoms that would allow the working class to express its opinion and organize itself to confront the imperialist offensive and the authoritarian drift of the Maduro government. Since 3 January, and after the White House’s announcements of turning Venezuela into a gringo colony, the priority has become the defence of national independence with the broadest regime of political freedoms for patriotic forces. The facts will tell if the situation evolves towards a stage of national liberation.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Philippines

  From Flood Fund Plunder to Environmental Plunder – On the Moral, Political, and Ecological Crises Shaping the Philippines

• Palestine

  The ethnic cleansing of Gaza by NGOs and Somaliland

• France

  Feminist struggles against the far right and repression

• Ukraine

  The reality of the front belies the Kremlin’s little music

• USA-Venezuela

  Trump Abducts Maduro in Violent Attack, Says U.S. Will Run Venezuela and its Oil

Recently posted Features

• Our History

  Malaysia’s “Second Emergency” (1968–89)

  13 June 2018, by Gregor Benton

  The impact of revolutionary developments in Vietnam and China on the May events of 1968 in France and other Western countries has long been acknowledged. Less notice has been paid outside Asia to their repercussions on other Southeast Asian countries, which also experienced a revolutionary high tide in 1968. The upsurge of armed struggle in Malaysia in 1968 is rarely mentioned in general studies on the period, and is not often talked about even in Malaysia.

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• Our History

  Storm in the Philippines

  9 June 2018, by Alex de Jong

  “1968” came to the Philippines two years late. When it did arrive, it exploded with fury. In 1970, the Philippines was a democratic republic but president Ferdinand Marcos’ authoritarian tendencies and desire to remain in office beyond his term limit were already visible. There were many other grievances that added fuel to the fire, such as the corruption, poverty, and deep inequality in what was then one of the most prosperous countries of South-Asia, and, as in many other places across the world, the war in Vietnam was a cause of anger.

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• May 1968

  1968 – It was just the beginning

  7 June 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  Although the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968 provides the opportunity for new celebrations, new tributes and testimonies, for extensions of previous historiographical research, few writings take seriously the political questions raised by this event. However, ten years after the beautiful month of May, in 1978, the event was still live, and even though social setbacks were being announced and the crisis was beginning to install itself, it was still politics and not history that people were discussing with regard to May 1968. Hence the interest in plunging back into the debates of that time, with this article by Daniel Bensaïd, published in 1978 in a review of the Revolutionary Communist League, Les Cahiers de la taupe (No. 23, dated May-June 1978).[Contretemps]

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• Our history

  Just Short of the "Conscious Leap": Ernest Mandel in 1968

  26 May 2018, by Jan Willem Stutje

  Jan Willem Stutje’s Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred, published by Verso in a translation by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker in 2009, is the first biography of the great Belgian intellectual and militant of the Fourth International.

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