International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Hong Kong

  Two Narratives on the Hong Kong Fire

  24 December, by Au Loong-Yu

  The 26 November 2025 Wang Fu Court fire has a lot of similarity with London’s 2017 Grenfell fire. In terms of scale, the former was much bigger – instead of just one building there were seven on fire, and instead of 72 deaths there have been 160 deaths as of now. However, the combustible materials used in renovating the outer walls were the direct cause of both.

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• Japan

  Takaichi Administration’s Two Months

  23 December, by Toshizo Omori

  While LDP-JIP coalition government has been trying to promote right-wing policies, how should the left forces fight against them?

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• Indonesia

  When past and present collide: Indonesia 1965-2025

  22 December, by Adam Novak, Pierre Rousset

  “At the time of the US escalation in Vietnam, Indonesia was the scene of one of the worst bloodbaths in modern history, committed under the auspices of Washington and London. Sixty years later, the archipelago is at the heart of youth revolts against the privileges of the oligarchy and corruption, in defence of a democracy dearly won back since 1998.”

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• USA-Venezuela

  Trump reveals the real reasons behind the war on Venezuela

  21 December, by Luís Bonilla-Molina

  Venezuela and its people are the first direct victims of the "Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine." This war, which has already been declared, is not against drug trafficking or the Maduro regime, but rather for oil and rare earth minerals, military bases, information, and misgovernment. All democratic, progressive, popular, and leftist forces must denounce and confront the US offensive against Venezuela, which in no way means defending the Maduro government.

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• Chile

  Kast: Chile’s “democratic route” back to Pinochetism

  20 December, by Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom

  With José Antonio Kast’s victory, Pinochetism returns to power through electoral means, articulating neoliberal restoration, moral authoritarianism, and anti-communism as a response to Chile’s crisis.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Mexico

  “Generation Z” and the advance of the far right in Mexico

• Portugal

  The general strike demonstrates that struggle can open up paths for the left

• Belgium

  After three days of strike, a vast social movement with no political alternative

• USA

  The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world

• USA

  Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract

Recently posted Features

• Gender and Capitalism

  The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State

  10 June 2015, by Sara R. Farris

  It is not an easy task to reconstruct succinctly the main problematics that have traversed Marxist feminism in the last 40 years, without risking simplifications or serious omissions, or without producing a mere summary that avoids critically engaging with the subjects that it raises. And yet, I believe Arruzza’s text “Remarks on Gender” accomplishes the task very well: her reconstruction of the key theses on the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism proposed by different currents within socialist and Marxist feminism from the 1970s onwards is not only lucid and informative, but also extremely clear and accessible. Furthermore, her partisan critique of the different positions on the table, alongside an indication of the most promising questions for debate, give us – as feminists who locate ourselves in the Marxist tradition(s) – a great opportunity to begin and/or deepen a much needed discussion and exchange. A new generation of Marxist feminists has emerged in the last years; it begins to question, re-articulate, expand and criticise the theorizations and disputes it has inherited from previous generations.

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• Gender and Capitalism

  Closing the Conceptual Gap

  10 June 2015, by FTC Manning

  This text raises the question of a unified theory of social relations. Cinzia Arruzza’s essay “Remarks on Gender” reminds us of the debates, left dormant for decades, around creating a unified theory of capital. However, Arruzza’s path toward that unification is one that abdicates the possibility of locating gender and race as part of the abstract, logical, or “essential mechanisms” of capitalism, opting instead to incorporate these pervasive relations as aspects of capitalism’s historical and concrete unfolding.

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• Patriarchy, family, feminism

  Hunter-gatherers: gender equality, a key factor in human evolution?

  5 June 2015, by Jean Batou

  The social organization of humanity before the advent of agriculture tells us a lot about the context in which our species evolved over tens of thousands of years. It is in fact distinguished from that of primates by a more intense collaboration between individuals, which allows the development of a "cumulative culture." Researchers have just shown why gender equality may explain this propensity to associate a higher number of individuals coming from different groups (M. Dyble et al., "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands ", Science, 15 May 2015).

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• European History

  Inside the European Cataclysm

  4 June 2015, by Enzo Traverso

  Writing on a century of violence since the Great War, as World War I was once called, could easily turn into a gallery of horrors or an awful, monotonous succession of wars and genocide, from the battle of Verdun to Baghdad, from the Armenian to the Rwanda genocide, passing through Auschwitz and the Gulag.

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