International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Ukraine solidarity - Britain

  Anti‑militarism without pacifism

  17 August, by Andy Kilmister, Liz Lawrence

  What attitudes should socialists and trade unionists have to war?

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• USA

  Learning from the DSA convention

  16 August, by Paul Le Blanc

  A different view on the DSA convention.

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• USA

  DSA’s 2025 National Convention: A New Chapter Opens Up for the Socialist Movement

  15 August, by Philip Locker, Stephan Kimmerle

  “The challenge for revolutionary Marxists is to build a Marxist center of DSA that can lead in the direction of principled mass work and national visibility of DSA in broader movements against Trump, in labor, and in social movements.”

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• Palestine

  The “Day After” in Gaza

  14 August, by Gilbert Achcar

  “Hypocritical cries of condemnation have risen, warning Netanyahu that this project will lead to massive displacement and a large number of deaths, as if the genocide and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist army over the past 22 months, and supported during several months by the same Western governments that are blaming Netanyahu today, were not already worse than what he is promising now.”

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• Britain

  Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide

  13 August, by Dave Kellaway

  “Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Fourth International

  Fighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp

• South Africa

  Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises

• Bangladesh

  One year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation

• Palestine solidarity - Britain

  Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms

• Britain

  Building grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers

Recently posted Features

• Debt crisis

  The Left against Debt-tatorship

  13 April 2012, by Françisco Louçã

  The debate on the left over how to respond to the debt crisis is fundamental for defining socialist policies. That is what this text is about. In the first part, I look at the crisis of the euro. I will argue, as many others have, that this crisis is structural and permanent, contrary to the claims of both social democracy and the right. In the second part, I look at the two options that have been put forward as alternatives to the strategy of left-wing europeanism : first the nationalist exit strategy and second the leap towards a European State. I aim to show that both these alternatives have three problems: they are profoundly contradictory, they depend on concealing their real economic and social effects, and they ignore the balance of forces in which choices have to be made. In the third part, I take a fresh look at left-wing europeanism and seek to show that an economic alternative demands a strategy of class struggle. For that, we need to go back to basics.

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• Australia

  Australian imperialism and the rise of China

  6 April 2012, by Tom Bramble

  The rise of China has been of enormous significance for the Australian capitalist class. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Ross Gittins outlines three major reasons why the East Asian giant now matters for Australian capitalism. First is its sheer size. With a population of 1.35 billion, it has 20 per cent of the world’s population and is 11 times larger than Australia’s second largest trading partner, Japan. Second, the Chinese economy has grown by 10 per cent a year for three decades, roughly doubling in size every eight years.

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• Global Justice

  Occupy America

  18 March 2012, by Cinzia Arruzza

  Movements always arrive unexpectedly. And those who have worked hardest in previous years and months to push towards an escalation of struggles and mobilizations are usually the most surprised by a movement’s arrival. In spite of the many surprises — Who would have imagined that the occupation of Tahrir Square was possible? Who would have imagined the Spanish acampadas? — Leftist activists tend to insist in thinking that movements and the specific forms the movements take can be predicted. The reality is that one can predict that there will be a struggle, for class conflict is inscribed in the capitalist relations of production. But when, where, and which form this struggle will take is impossible to predict. The impossibility of predicting the specific constellation in which those who are below decide that the situation is simply not acceptable any longer does not mean that movements explode like lightening in the sky.

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• South Africa

  Uneven and combined Marxism’ within South Africa’s urban social movements

  2 March 2012, by Ashwin Desai, Patrick Bond, Trevor Nwagne

  The political dynamics of contemporary South Africa are rife with contradiction. On one hand, it is among the most consistently contentious places on earth, with insurgent communities capable of mounting disruptive protest on a nearly constant basis, rooted in the poor areas of the half-dozen major cities as well as neglected and multiply-oppressed black residential areas of declining towns. On the other hand, even the best-known contemporary South African social movements, for all their sound, lack a certain measure of fury.

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