International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA
  

  Trump Bribes Voters, We Remember 9/11, and Soon the Midterm Election

  21 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump convened the first-ever midterm Republican Convention in Dallas, Texas principally to celebrate himself and motivate his base for the coming November 3 national elections where control of both houses of Congress is in play. He told his followers to pretend that he’s on the ballot and to vote for Republicans.

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• Ukraine
  

  Civil and military resistance against Putin in Ukraine

  20 September, by NPA-A Ukraine Solidarity Intervention Group

  Ukrainian society is resisting at both the military and civilian levels. To provide concrete support, an international solidarity convoy will go on the road to Ukraine at the end of November. Ukrainian gains on the front line, even if limited, mark the inability of the Russian army to make decisive territorial advances.

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• Iran
  

  An acute crisis in Iran

  19 September, by Babak Kia

  Unable to win the war, US president Donald Trump is bogged down. The Islamic Republic of Iran is responding blow for blow to the US bombings. With the elections in the US and Israel approaching, Trump and Netanyahu cannot back down. This raises fears of a headlong rush and an escalation of the war.

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• Sweden
  

  Setback for the racist populist right, success for the left

  18 September, by Håkan Blomqvist

  A setback for the racist populist right and a success for the left- by a margin of 50 359 votes. Social Democracy will return to government in spite of its worst election results since the introduction of universal suffrage.

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• Brazil
  

  Dispute in the Supreme Court disrupts elections in Brazil

  17 September, by Luís Leiria

  On one side is Alexandre de Moraes, the judge who led the investigation into and prosecution of the Bolsonaro-led coup against President Lula; on the other is Judge André Mendonça, appointed during Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency. Both are suspected of having ties to the banker responsible for the biggest financial fraud in Brazil’s history.
  With less than a month to go before the presidential elections on 4 October, Brazil finds itself plunged into a crisis that, for the first time, has (…)

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Democratic Republic of Congo

  Constitutional tampering in DRC

• Turkey

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

• New Zealand/Aotearoa

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

• Latin America

  Latin America: Patterns and Pendulum

• Situation in East Asia and Japanese Politics/Economy

  Oppose the Takaichi Administration’s Military Expansion and Constitutional Revision

Recently posted Features

• Our history

  Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy

  19 March 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  This study was first prepared for a training course and presented in the summer of 1989. The French version was published on January 21, 2016 on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of Lenin’s death, followed by an English translation. The last part of the text titled “The struggle of Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and the Fourth International for a Socialist Democracy” has been added in January 2017.

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• Economic crisis

  World economy: The return of crisis

  27 January 2017, by Joel Geier, Lee Sustar

  In the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis, capitalism regrouped as states pumped enormous amounts of money into the system to stabilize it. The result has been a relatively weak recovery—one that has failed to clear away the problems that had produced the crisis in the first place. As a result, eight years later crisis threatens to return.

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• Economy

  Xi Jinping’s China – An extremely complex transition whose outcome remains unpredictable

  26 January 2017, by Aldo Bronzo

  In Xi Jinping’s China the habitual political framework has not withstood any substantial modifications. The party has kept its usual centralized posture, which makes it the backbone of de facto power. The recent attempts to invest state-level and provincial agencies with greater managerial significance have not altered the usual frame of reference. This happened despite the erosion of credibility that the elite had to necessarily register vis-à -vis a body social that is progressively going into overdrive and within which increasingly divergent pressures and disparate impulses are taking shape. [1]

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• Republic of Congo

  Constitutional gerrymandering and murderous consolidation of capitalist nepotism

  18 January 2017, by Jean Nanga

  From Angola to Chad, Central Africa, including Equatorial Guinea, is the sub-region most affected by the decline in oil prices, because it is dependent on oil revenues. An oligarchic resistance to the respect of the rules of the democratic game, in the form of a new type of authoritarian regime combining a formal multiparty regime with a repressive confiscation of power, characterized by nepotism, is closely related to this rentier character.
  Thus, in a direction contrary to the wind that blew from North Africa in 2010-2011, sweeping away in 2014 the Blaise Compaoré regime in Burkina Faso, in 2016, the Congolese, Chadian and Gabonese peoples were forced to suffer, for another term of office, disgraced regimes. The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), confronted with the postponement of the elections, which extended the presidency of Kabila, have already seen dozens of people killed following the repression of popular demonstrations. So we could speak of a "spirit of sub-region". Without forgetting that in Côte d’Ivoire Ouattara has had a constitution drafted that allows the president to appoint one third of the members of the Senate.

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