International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• ?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...
• Italy
  

  Italy: The stakes of the March referendum on justice

  23 March, by Hélène Marra

  In Italy, prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is continuing its authoritarian offensive with a reform of the judiciary that threatens the independence of the judiciary. The referendum on 22 and 23 March is a central political issue. After the “security” decree, the reform of the judiciary is another important link in the authoritarian project promoted by Meloni’s government. By changing the methods of electing members of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the latter threatens the independence of this body and limits its ability to act as a counter-power to the political and economic systems. The victory of the “No” vote in the referendum on 22 and 23 March is an important opportunity to destabilise Meloni’s coalition and to solidify the political and social opposition camp.

  read article...
• Canada
  

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

  22 March, by Marcel Nelson, Nathan Rao

  Journalist and activist Avi Lewis is campaigning for the leadership of the NDP in the Canadian state, attracting much attention, dedication, and debate. Voting concludes on 28 March.

  read article...

...and the rest of the current issue

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

• Iran: Imperialists escalate war

• Philippines-Middle East

  On the Middle East crisis and the Philippines.

• Senegal

  Senegal: Debt fuels authoritarian drift

• Iran

  The Iranian nuclear bomb: a devastating boomerang

Recently posted Features

• Spanish state

  The long May 68 in the Spanish state

  21 November 2018, by Manuel Garí

  In the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.

  read article...
• Internationalism

  Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism

  21 November 2018, by Catherine Samary

  As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

  read article...
• Pakistan

  50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution

  21 November 2018, by Lal Khan

  Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.

  read article...
• Fourth International

  Livio Maitan: History wrinkle-free

  16 November 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  Daniel Bensaïd wrote the Preface to Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente published in 2006.

  Resistance Books and the IIRE have launched an appeal to fiund publication in English. It has almost reached the first goal of 5,000 euros, thanks to a substantial donation in the form of translation work.

  To give an idea of the book, and of the person of Livio, we publish here the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s preface.

  We hope to raise 1,000 euros more to pay for the design and promotion of the book. Details on how to make a donation can be found below.

  read article...

• 1
• …
• 98
• 99
• 100
• 101
• 102
• 103
• 104
• 105
• 106
• …
• 192