International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Brazil

  Oil Speaks Loudest: Environmental backsliding and the limits of Brazil’s energy transition

  28 October, by Subvertacomunica

  The recent decision by Ibama (the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to grant the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, an environmental licence for exploratory drilling along the Equatorial Margin, near the mouth of the Amazon River, represents a huge step backwards for the country’s environmental and energy policy. It shows that the logic of fossil fuel-based development continues to dominate within the Brazilian state, something that we urgently need to overcome.

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• USA

  The United States Prepares for War on Venezuela

  27 October, by Dan La Botz

  The United States is preparing for war against Venezuela. While President Donald Trump has asserted that the country’s goal is to stop shipments of Venezuelan drugs to the United States, in private conversations U.S. officials have made it clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This forms part of Trump’s goal of reasserting U.S. domination in Latin America such as it exercised in the nineteenth century by gunboats and in the twentieth century by installing friendly governments.

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• Ireland

  Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left in Ireland

  26 October, by Paul Murphy

  Catherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.

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• Argentina

  Will Trump’s bail-out be enough for Milei?

  25 October, by Martin Hache

  On Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.

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• Algeria

  Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity

  24 October, by Amel Hadjadj

  “On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”

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• Greece

  The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!

• Middle East/North Africa

  Morocco’s Gen Z and the Regional Volcano

• USA

  Millions Protest Trump in Defense of Democracy and Social Justice

• South Asia

  Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia

• Peru

  Thousands take to the streets of Peru following the fall of yet another government

Recently posted Features

• Asia

  Labour’s Polycrisis

  20 August, by Kevin Lin

  A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don’t have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.

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• Ecology

  The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky

  20 August, by Daniel Tanuro

  For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...

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• Fourth International

  Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

  20 August, by Alex de Jong

  The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo’ Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case’ led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

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• Fascism

  “For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”

  7 August, by Gilbert Achcar , Ilya Budraitskis

  Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture

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