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

• Britain

  Socialist Feminism: Hidden from history

  7 March 2013, by Terry Conway

  It is usual that for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution — in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event. On other occasions we have looked at the role that women are playing in struggles today abroad as well as at home.
  In this article I am doing something a bit different — to start to celebrate the role that socialist feminists played in second wave feminism in Britain.

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• The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)

  7 March 2013, by John Riddell

  The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders.

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• Obituary

  Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013

  7 March 2013, by Linda Gordon

  Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s. Over the course of 50 years, a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians created a field with thousands of PhDs. The field expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College in 1972 to the presence of Women’s History faculty in the great majority of U.S. colleges and universities.

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• Socialism and feminism

  Why socialists need feminism

  2 March 2013, by David Camfield

  The idea that socialists should be feminists too is uncontroversial to many revolutionary socialists. But why socialism needs feminism is still worth spelling out.

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