International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• War and ecology

  Agent Orange, a slow violence that still kills

  18 October, by Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine

  The Vietnam-Dioxin Collective is part of a decolonial ecology since the cause is not only ecological but is also the result of colonial and imperialist logics and of a capitalist system that produces environmental crises (which are in fact continuous) and wars in times of crisis. We demand justice for the victims of Agent Orange, a chemical and defoliant weapon used during the US-led Imperial War in Vietnam.

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• South Sudan

  Get rid of leaders to stop war in South Sudan

  17 October, by Paul Martial

  Through their corruption and ethnicist politics, the country’s elites are plunging South Sudan into a new abyss of violence. Since its separation from Sudan in July 2011, the country has only experienced civil wars, of varying intensity. For the past eight months, Riek Machar, the vice-president, has been appearing in court on several charges such as crimes against humanity, rebellion and treason.

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• Netherlands

  A confident far-right and a stagnant parliamentary left in the Netherlands


  16 October, by Alex de Jong

  On October 29 the Netherlands will have parliamentary elections, again. In early June, the government of prime-minster Dick Schoof lost its majority as the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders blew up the coalition. Shortly before the elections, the contrast between the most important political events in the Netherlands could hardly be sharper. On 20 September, after an anti-immigration rally, fascists rioted in The Hague. On October 5, a quarter of a million people marched through the streets of Amsterdam to show their solidarity with Palestine.

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• Trump

  A Festival of Obsequiousness

  15 October, by Gilbert Achcar

  “As for the proud Palestinian people, they have spent a century proving their refusal to submit to their oppressors – whether the British Mandate authorities or the Zionist government. They will not kiss Donald Trump’s hand or show him “appreciation”, no matter what those who claim to represent them may do.”

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• Madagascar

  Mobilization shakes regime in Madagascar

  14 October, by Paul Martial

  “The new fact is the mobilization of workers. A few days after the first demonstrations, Jirama employees went on strike, joined by the teachers’ union, SEMPAMA. Finally, Herizo Ramanambola, leader of the Solidarité trade union, called for a general strike, also demanding the resignation of the president.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Russia

  Army Contract and Draft: the New Architecture of Military Conscription

• USA

  Trump’s Imperialism—Working for American Dominance, but Failing

• Ukraine

  Unwavering support for Ukraine

• India

  India after the Tianjin summit and in the midst of the climate crisis – an overview

• Algeria

  Lyes sentenced to six months in prison in Algeria

Recently posted Features

• Interview

  Imperialism, the Arab Spring, and the crisis

  31 December 2011, by David Barsamian , Tariq Ali

  David Barsamian interviewed the well-known anti-imperialist writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 26, 2011 for International Socialist Review.

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• USA

  Occupy Movement Goals: Socialist Revolution or Capitalist Reforms?

  21 November 2011, by Jeff Mackler

  At last count 900 U.S. cities have joined the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Five hundred other cities and towns on every continent have joined the mushrooming mobilizations in solidarity. With each repressive blow, the movement comes back stronger—more inclusive, more confident, and more clearly focused.

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• Syria

  Militarization, military intervention and the absence of strategy

  21 November 2011, by Gilbert Achcar

  I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC - who had come from Syria for the event) in the presence of the most prominent member of the Syrian National Council – its president, Burhan Ghalioun.

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• Marxism in China

  China studies Marxism: twelve pro-capitalist lines

  9 November 2011, by Ian Parker

  Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the market-place all that seemed fixed and fast frozen since the revolution in 1949 but, as with all other forms of capitalism, this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of authority necessary for capital accumulation, and the Chinese state is a key player in the enrichment of a new bourgeoisie. There are particular political-economic and ideological conditions for this transition, of course, and one of the most important is the legacy of Maoism, and how the claim to be a socialist country is squared with the rapid abandonment of each and every tenet of socialism.

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