International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Democratic Republic of Congo
  

  Constitutional tampering in DRC

  16 September, by Paul Martial

  Officially, the second and final term of Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ends at the end of 2028. But the latter, in several of his statements, has said he is ready to run for a third term if “the people want it”. The opposition is calling for a large demonstration on 15 September 2026 against a third term for Tshisekedi, who is retaliating with a tailor-made national dialogue.

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• Turkey
  

  ‘My family is safe’: the Turkish regime’s crackdown on LGBTI+ people

  15 September, by Uraz Aydin

  A new milestone was reached in the Erdoğan regime’s homophobic crackdown on Sunday 13 September. Police forces launched a large-scale operation against LGBTI+ organisations and activists, as well as organisations campaigning against HIV/AIDS. Raids were carried out in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, amongst other places. The Ministry of Justice states that the operation, dubbed “My family is safe”, involves a total of 162 people, nine organisations and thirteen premises across fifteen provinces.

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• New Zealand/Aotearoa
  

  Beyond the Labour Machine: Aotearoa, the Alliance, and the Question of Working Class Independence

  14 September, by Kyle Barrett

  On October 23, 2025, more than 100,000 workers walked off the job in Aotearoa (the Māori-language name for New Zealand): 60,000 teachers, 30,000 nurses, 5,000 doctors, 20,000 allied health workers, firefighters, and public servants. It was the largest day of industrial action since the 1979 general strike—a forty-six year interregnum finally broken. 56 percent of New Zealanders told pollsters they backed the strikers.
  By the end of the year, that energy had been buried. The Post Primary (…)

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• Latin America
  

  Latin America: Patterns and Pendulum

  13 September, by Marc Becker

  RECENT ELECTIONS ACROSS across Latin America appear to have placed the hard right firmly back in power. While the landscape may appear to be dim for the left, other factors signal glimmers of hope.

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• Situation in East Asia and Japanese Politics/Economy
  

  Oppose the Takaichi Administration’s Military Expansion and Constitutional Revision

  12 September, by Toshizo Omori

  “These struggles for anti-war peace, the defense of working people’s livelihoods, and the fight for climate justice in the face of a deepening climate crisis are unfolding in response to the multifaceted crises of the capitalist system. As these crises converge into a single unified front, our movements and struggles must likewise interconnect to form a powerful, single stream. The current situation demands nothing less.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• “War on Terror”

  9/11: A Quarter Century of Imperial War

• Germany: regional elections in Sachsen-Anhalt

  The AfD just short of an absolute majority

• USA

  Gloria Steinem, prominent American feminist, 1934-2026

• Germany

  Eastern elections and Die Linke: anything but an all-party government

• Ukraine

  A summer in Ukraine

Recently posted Features

• Fourth International

  The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

  3 September 2025, by Ernest Mandel

  The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.

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• Asia

  Labour’s Polycrisis

  20 August 2025, by Kevin Lin

  A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don’t have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.

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• Ecology

  The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky

  20 August 2025, by Daniel Tanuro

  For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...

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• Fourth International

  Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

  20 August 2025, by Alex de Jong

  The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo’ Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case’ led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

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