International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Ethiopia

  High tensions and fragile peace in Ethiopia

  15 May, by Paul Martial

  “The Ethiopian government is proposing national conciliation after more than 18 months of a war that has torn the country apart. While the country is experiencing a precarious calm, important issues remain unresolved.”

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• Ukraine solidarity

  Report: International conference of European Solidarity with Ukraine

  14 May, by Tom Harris

  “We talk a lot in the labour movement about international solidarity and mutual aid. If any of that is real and sincere, we need to act on it now. The Ukrainian left is in a life or death struggle.”

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• Women in Russia

  Learning Solidarity Together

  13 May, by Anastasia Vosstavshaya, Marie

  Right now, our international solidarity must be based on the payment of reparations to benefit Ukraine. […] It is also important to clarify that, first and foremost, reparations should be paid by the rich: officials, the nomenklatura, oligarchs, businessmen, etc.

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• Ukraine

  Why should Ukraine’s debt be cancelled?

  12 May, by Éric Toussaint

  “But, while the international press focuses precisely on the Russian oligarchs, there is no reason for the CADTM to consider that the Ukrainian oligarchs are allies of the Ukrainian people. The class struggle during the war continues.”

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• France

  A new electoral union on the French left

  11 May, by Léon Crémieux

  “So, the limited but real risk that the left will become the main opposition to Macron and could even deprive him of a majority really frightens the presidential majority.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Russia

  From Managed Democracy to Fascism: Putin’s Imposition of Obedience and Order on Russian Society

• India

  Pogromists in power in India

• Abortion rights in USA

  New Frontal Attack on Abortion

• France

  Faced with popular hostility Macron imposed his re-election

• France

  Statement of NPA National Political Council on the parliamentary elections

Recently posted Debate

• Ukraine debate

  Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine

  5 May, by Taras Bilous

  Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of the war, Ukrainians are just victims in need of humanitarian aid, not subjects with desires that should be respected.
  Of course, this doesn’t apply to everyone on the left—not by a long shot. Scandinavian (...)

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• Ukraine debate

  A critique to the decisions of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International concerning the war in Ukraine

  5 May, by OKDE-Spartakos

  The Executive Bureau of the Fourth International has issued two statements on Ukraine. One before the invasion, on 30 January 2022, entitled "Against NATO and Russian military escalation in Eastern Europe”; and another one after the start of the invasion, on 1 March 2022, entitled "No to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine! Support the Ukrainian resistance! Solidarity with the Russian opposition to the war!".

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• Ukraine debate

  Let us build an international movement against the imperialist war! No to the intervention of NATO, the USA and the EU! Russian troops out of Ukraine!

  5 May, by Tendency for a Revolutionary International

  This Declaration of the Tendency for a Revolutionary International (TRI), public tendency of the FI (ex-USec) was issued on Monday, 14 March 2022.

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• Ukraine debate

  Why the Left Must Support Arms for Ukraine!

  22 April, by Stephen R Shalom

  Can we really say to Ukrainians: for your own good we are going to turn a deaf ear to your pleas for the means of defending yourselves?

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