International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Brazil

  Bolsonaro is breaking the country: 200,000 dead, unemployment and poverty

  18 January, by Esquerda Online

  “It is necessary to make 2021 a year of resistance and unitary action, on the streets - while respecting health standards - against this genocidal government. ”

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• Puerto RIco

  The 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left

  17 January, by José A. Laguarta Ramírez

  “If a solid leftist electoral front can be built while maintaining the pressure of street mobilization on a much weakened colonial capitalist regime, a true sea change is not just possible but within reach.”

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• Bolivia

  The Return of Democracy and an Uncertain Future

  16 January, by Bret Gustafson

  “Wherever one stands on Evo Morales, and despite the challenges ahead, it is clear that at least for the moment, Bolivians continue to challenge capitalism and its orthodoxies.”

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• Romania

  First as tragedy, then as farce? AUR and the long shadow of fascism in Romania

  15 January, by Raul Carstocea

  “Yet if the story of the defeat of fascism and of the central role played by socialism in its demise teaches us any lesson, it is that we surely have to keep trying.”

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• USA

  Post-Election 2020: A Crisis of Representation

  14 January, by Barry Eidlin

  Failed beer hall putsch re-enactments aside, Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 if not sooner—at least for the next four years. The focus now shifts to the post-Trump world: what can we expect from the incoming Biden administration?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Venezuela

  Parliamentary elections – Results and prospects

• Venezuela

  2021 begins with a new National Assembly. Will it lead to advances?

• Britain

  Five Things we have Learnt from the National Education Union’s Mobilisation to Keep Schools Safe.

• South Africa

  Nationalism and patriotism: the opium of the masses

• Hong Kong

  Hong Kong’s mass arrests are an assault on grassroots advocacy

Recently posted Debate

• Debate

  Fascism, populism and conservatism

  1 December 2018, by Pips Patroons

  In 1941, at Hitler’s military apex, Bertolt Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, wherein he reduces Hitler the politician and his lackeys to a vulgar band of bandits from 1930’s Chicago.

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• Portugal

  Parliamentary action and social struggles - The experience of the Portuguese Left Bloc

  7 September 2018, by Francisco Louçã

  The Left Bloc was formed about twenty years ago in Portugal, by the fusion of forces from the anti-capitalist left and the social movement. Today, together with the Communist Party, it is the main formation of the combative left in the country. Based on the Bloc’s experience, Francisco Louçã gives an overview of the still problematic relationship between parliamentary opposition work and investment in social movements and mobilizations.

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• Ecosocialism

  Ecosocialists debate James Hansen’s climate change exit strategy

  25 March 2018, by Ian Angus, John Bellamy Foster

  Should ecosocialists reject a program that includes carbon pricing? Ian Angus and John Bellamy Foster reply to Daniel Tanuro’s criticism of their approach “The right’s green awakening”.

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• The right’s green awakening

  22 March 2018, by Daniel Tanuro

  The COP21 negotiators at the Paris 2015 convention enjoyed a rare moment of success. Unlike in Copenhagen six years before, the climate summit produced an agreement — and an ambitious one at that. The attending governments committed to keeping the temperature rise “well below 2° C” and “continuing efforts” not to exceed 1.5° C of warming. No one had imagined such a breakthrough. [1]

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