International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Britain
  

  No to antisemitism – no to all racism

  28 March, by Anti*Capitalist Resistance

  The arson attack on four ambulances in a North London synagogue car park [1] was an antisemitic hate crime. ACR condemns this unequivocally. We call on others to do the same, regardless of the claimed motives of the attackers or the alleged views of some synagogue members. Israel’s genocidal war crimes in Palestine and across the Middle East offer no justification for an attack on a public service provided by the Jewish community in Britain.

  read article...
• France
  

  After the municipal elections, build an anti-fascist front

  27 March, by NPA-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA-A)

  The results of the local elections reflect a confusing picture of the political landscape. On Sunday evening, on the television programmes, everyone from the RN to LFI claimed to have emerged as the winner from this round of elections.

  read article...
• ?K
  

  Kanaky: Mobilization on 21 March against colonialism

  26 March, by An Gwesped

  For several months, the French government has been trying to impose on Kanaky an exit from the framework of the Nouméa Accords, by calling into question the decolonization process, even though it is recognized by the UN. The so-called “Bougival Agreement”, imposed in July 2025 against the advice of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), provides for the creation of a “state” of Kanaky-New Caledonia integrated into the French republic. A formula that in no way corresponds to independence.

  read article...
• 

  Cesar Chavez, Civil Rights and Labor icon, raped girls and women

  25 March, by Dan La Botz

  Cesar Chavez, who in the 1960s led the struggles of Mexican Americans for civil rights and of farmworkers for labor unions, was accused in a carefully researched New York Times article of having raped women and sexually abused girls as young as 13. Among those women was Dolores Huerta, herself a founder and leader of the union, who confirmed that he forced himself on her and fathered two of her children, secretly raised by others. Debra Rojas reported that Chavez had had intercourse with her when she was 15, which is rape under state law because she was too young to give legal consent.

  read article...
• Anti-fascism
  

  Towards an international anti-fascist convergence

  24 March, by Éric Toussaint

  Uniting left-wing forces to counter the rise of the far right. That is the aim of the First International Anti-Fascist Conference, to be held in late March in Porto Alegre, Brazil

  read article...

...and the rest of the current issue

• Italy

  Italy: The stakes of the March referendum on justice

• Canada

  Out of the Impasse? The Avi Lewis Campaign and Left Strategy

• Collateral Damage Comes Home: Lebanon, Palestine, Iran to Michigan

• Iran: Imperialists escalate war

• Philippines-Middle East

  On the Middle East crisis and the Philippines.

Recently posted Features

• Environment

  The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left

  13 May 2015, by Alan Thornett

  In this presentation I want to advance four propositions that may be controversial:

  • That biodiversity is the planet’s most valuable resource. It is also its most abused and threatened.

  • That the biodiversity collapse we are witnessing today—the greatest mass extinction of species for 65 million years—is the most fundamental aspect of the whole environmental crisis.

  • That most left environmentalists—including Marxist and socialist environmentalists—have failed to adequately recognise or address it.

  • That this represents a serious failing in the overall approach of the left, including the Marxist left, to the environmental crisis.

  read article...
• Ecosocialism

  Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism

  3 May 2015, by Daniel Tanuro

  The concept of eco-socialism is based on a double paradoxical note: the solution to the “ecological crisis” due to the capitalist mode of production necessitates a response of a socialist type, whilst the environmental balance sheet of “actually existing socialism” is catastrophic. I will briefly develop these two elements and then present some foundations of an eco-socialist aggiornamento as it is conceived inside the “International Eco-socialist Network”. I hope to bring forward evidence that eco-socialism is something more than a new label on an old bottle: a necessary alternative adapted to the challenges of our times.

  read article...

• Intellectuals and the “The New Cold War”: from the Tragedy to the Farce of Choice

  20 April 2015, by Ilya Budraitskis

  Observers speak of the “New Cold War” as a self-evident and incontrovertible reality. Already in the spring, the new contours of international politics, demarcated by sanctions and mutual rhetorical incursions, were fully recognized by the broadest segments of the public in Russia, Europe and the United States—including those who were very far from decision-making processes—as a return to the familiar and frightening principles of the second half of the twentieth century.

  read article...
• Russia

  Who Is Behind the "Trotskyist Conspiracy"?

  16 April 2015, by Ilya Budraitskis

  Speaking at a meeting of his All-Russia People’s Front a couple days ago, Vladimir Putin said, “Trotsky had this [saying]: the movement is everything, the ultimate aim is nothing. We need an ultimate aim.” Eduard Bernstein’s proposition, misquoted and attributed for some reason to Leon Trotsky, is probably the Russian president’s most common rhetorical standby. He has repeated it for many years to audiences of journalists and functionaries while discussing social policy, construction delays at Olympics sites or the dissatisfaction of the so-called creative class. “Democracy is not anarchism and not Trotskyism,” Putin warned almost two years ago.

  read article...

• 1
• …
• 134
• 135
• 136
• 137
• 138
• 139
• 140
• 141
• 142
• …
• 193