International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  Trump’s Lisa D. Cook Firing: Use of Racism in Power Grab

  13 September, by Malik Miah

  Trump’s August 25 late night internet post firing Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, the country’s central bank, came as a surprise. Why her?

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• Nepal

  Nepal protests have deeper roots

  12 September, by Alex de Jong

  Under the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Houses of prominent politicians were attacked, the parliament set on fire and the government is in shambles. But what is next?

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• Indonesia

  The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy

  11 September, by Michael G. Vann

  The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.

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• Côte d’Ivoire

  Côte d’Ivoire: Exclusion of main opponents in presidential election

  10 September, by Paul Martial

  The exclusion of the main opposition candidates from the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire on 25 October 2025 casts a shadow over the vote and fuels the risk of political violence in a country marked by a long history of electoral crises.

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• USA

  Trump Wants a More Militaristic, Bellicose America

  9 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump last week renamed the U.S. Department of Defense, announcing that it is now the Department of War. The name change suggests that Trump wants a more warlike country, despite his claims that he is a peacemaker. In fact, the Trump administration already has a remarkable record of military action in various regions of the world.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Pakistan

  State Neglect and Corporate-Driven Development Deepen Rural Devastation: Punjab faces unprecedented flood challenge

• Palestine

  Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity

• Turkey/Kurdistan

  Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

• Palestine solidarity

  What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?

• Economy and Ecology

  Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

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• Russia

  How the Russian Left Survived in a Post‑Soviet World

  12 January 2022, by Ilya Budraitskis

  After the demise of the USSR on December 26, 1991, the Russian left had to find its place in a society transformed beyond recognition. In the face of huge challenges, its activists have led important struggles against the system established by Yeltsin and Putin.
  The story of the modern left movement in Russia begins in the late 1980s, during the era of perestroika. From the very beginning it carried a contradictory combination of two political tendencies of the late Soviet period: (…)

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• Globalization

  Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today

  12 January 2022, by Éric Toussaint

  In this study, Éric Toussaint covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.

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• Our history in Hong Kong

  50 years after Baodiao: How Hong Kong struggled against all nationalisms

  12 January 2022, by Au Loong-Yu, Law Wing-sang , Mok Chiu-yu, Promise Li

  “But the “Baodiao” movement (保釣運動)—short-hand for “Protect Diaoyutai” (釣魚臺) in Chinese—represents the first movement led by a generation of people in the city imbued with some inchoate sense of local consciousness (to which today’s “Hongkonger” identity can be traced back), born and raised in Hong Kong upon the wave of mass migration from mainland China in the 1950s.”

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• Climate activism

  Beyond Glasgow – what happened at COP26 and where we go next

  24 December 2021, by Iain Bruce

  It is a month since Alok Sharma as president, fighting back some tears, brought down the gavel on the 26th Conference of the Parties – the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. The initial flurry of reactions and comments has subsided. Here in Scotland we have already seen some early signs of the impact – with the beginnings of a victory against the development of a new offshore oil field at Cambo.

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