International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA
  

  Progressives Strategic Failure: A Warning

  12 July, by Dan La Botz

  Democratic Party candidates are perceived by many voters as part of the system, part of the establishment, which indeed most are. The most common profession of Democratic congressional representatives and senators is law. Most don’t seem to share the common experiences of working class and lower middle-class people, because in fact they don’t. Lawyers’ average incomes range between $150,000 and $250,000, while the median income for American workers is $45,000 to $64,000,

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• Germany
  

  Forcing Refugees To Return to Syria is a Bad Idea

  11 July, by Joseph Daher

  “Not only are the conditions for a safe and dignified return to Syria not given. Without economic recovery and the reconstruction of critical state infrastructure a mass return of refugees to Syria would only worsen socio-economic conditions within the country and threaten large sectors of society dependent on remittances to survive.”

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• Palestine
  

  Israel targets and kills children

  10 July, by Édouard Soulier

  Two damning reports show that, in both Gaza and the West Bank, Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.

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• G7 summit
  

  The G7: the imperialist order under Trump’s leadership

  9 July, by William Donaura

  Held in the shadow of Donald Trump, the G7 summit served above all to confirm the alignment of Western powers with US strategic and energy interests. Behind the declarations of principle, this summit points to strengthened imperialist cooperation, still built on the backs of the people.

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• Kenya
  

  Resisting “green capitalism” in Kenya

  8 July, by Paul Martial

  “Carbon credits enable multinationals to offset their carbon dioxide emissions by funding environmental projects. In Kenya, the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) specialises in this type of activity. It manages ‘conservancies’, i.e. areas set aside for this purpose.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ecosocialism

  Many Fronts, One Struggle: A Report on the 7th International Ecosocialist Encounters

• USA

  Trump Campaigns on Anti-Communism as Left Opponents Are Indicted

• Venezuela

  215 years after Venezuela’s Declaration of Independence: Long live the republic

• Middle East

  The framework agreement Lebanon-Israel, a capitulation to multiple threats

• Colombia

  Colombia: in the eye of the storm

Recently posted Features

• Russia

  The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

  2 May 2018, by Ilya Budraitskis

  The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real socialism” become blurred and vanish, those necessary for the production of ideology become ever more sharply defined. It’s often argued that communism, buried a quarter of a century ago as living practice, has since acquired an afterlife in the form of a restless corpse, a remnant, a regurgitated survivor from the past, blighting the lives of new generations.

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• Global Migration

  27 April 2018, by SAP (Denmark)

  From the middle of the 20th century, migration has been a decisive political issue. International organizations estimate that the number of people moving within and across national borders has grown to greater extent than ever since World War II. These type of estimates are never neutral – how far, and under which circumstances, do you have to move to be counted as a migrant, for instance? It is the same with statistics; you always have to make some qualification.

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• Women

  The year of #MeToo

  26 April 2018, by Elizabeth Schulte

  Many things can spark a wildfire, but it’s what happens afterward that determines whether that fire will rage. In the case of the #MeToo campaign, the dozens of women who stepped forward to talk about their experiences of having been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was the catalyst for tens of thousands more women to break the silence about their own stories of sexual assault and harassment—providing fuel to a fire that has been long in the making.

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• Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 1

  25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  Proposals Doomed to Fail

  In his latest book, Adults in the Room [1] Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods. [2]

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