International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Türkiye
  

  Anti-NATO Conference in Istanbul: A Success Story that Contributes to the Anti-Imperialist Struggle

  2 October, by Uraz Aydin

  An international anti-imperialist peace conference took place on 4 July 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye, while the entire country was under relentless repression by the regime in the run-up to the NATO summit. It allowed several thousand activists to meet.

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• Sweden
  

  The Right Loses the Election – Social Democracy Records a Historic Low

  1 October, by Socialistiska Politik

  The policies pursued since 2022 have been among the most reactionary, racist, and repressive in modern Swedish history. Examples include restrictions on the right to asylum, attempts to retroactively revoke residence permits, significantly stricter requirements for obtaining Swedish citizenship, stop-and-search zones in working-class suburbs, repressive legislation that allows 14-year-olds to be imprisoned, deportations of young people separated from their families, legislative changes that threaten democracy, and welfare reforms that severely worsen conditions for the poorest and for those without citizenship.

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• Brazil
  

  Elections Crucial to Curbing Far Right

  30 September, by Israel Dutra, Mariana Riscali

  The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the anti-capitalist left have two gigantic challenges to face simultaneously in the coming Brazilian elections: to contribute to the broader struggle against the main Brazilian expression of global neo-fascism, and to build a radical and independent left pole.

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• Spanish state
  

  The spark that lit a prairie fire: let’s organise a hot autumn

  29 September, by Anticapitalistas

  On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain, there are thousands of evictions every year. The housing movement fights against them every day, often in the face of a media blackout that looks the other way when it comes to a tragedy that is part of everyday life in working-class neighbourhoods.

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• USA
  

  Protestors Rally against Mass Murderers Speaking at U.N. General Assembly

  28 September, by Dan La Botz

  Hundreds marched in three separate demonstrations to protest the mass murderers—President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—speaking at the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last week. The event became a kind of macabre circus with these monsters in the big ring as some delegates walked out while others protested outside.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  A Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror

• European Union

  Anti-migration measures: the EU Pact worsens an already hostile reality for exiles

• USA

  Battle over AI Creates New Political Allies and Enemies

• Climate

  Global warming and the headlong rush of fossil-fuel capitalism: the number one threat to global public health!

• Brazil

  We must turn up the volume and confront Bolsonaro’s supporters in the streets and at the polls

Recently posted Features

• Daniel Bensaïd archive

  Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics

  21 April 2022, by Alex Callinicos

  This reflection on Daniel Bensaïd’s work was made at a seminar organized in 2012 in the International Institute of Research and Education in Amsterdam.

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• In Memoriam

  Kevin Floyd’s Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute

  21 April 2022, by Peter Drucker

  Against the Current advisory editor Peter Drucker, the author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism, is one of a handful of scholars who have in recent years developed the field of queer Marxism. Another pioneer of queer Marxism, Kevin Floyd, died tragically in 2019. This year the Marxist Literary Group honored Kevin Floyd’s legacy with a special issue of its journal Mediations, including this tribute by Peter Drucker.

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• Campism

  Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism

  21 April 2022, by Dan La Botz

  I began this paper as a contribution to discussions in the Internationalism from Below Group, whose members’ criticisms helped to improve it. I finished it with help from the editors of New Politics. Special thanks to Steve Shalom for his comments. I alone, however, am responsible for this version of the essay.

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• Russia

  Russian Imperialism and Its Monopolies

  21 April 2022, by Michael Pröbsting

  It is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for progressive forces to have a clear view on the character of the powers involved, which in turn requires a concrete analysis of the political, economic, and military features of these powers that goes beyond a denunciation of the reactionary domestic and foreign policy of their respective governments. [1] Unfortunately, large sectors of the left do not take a principled position of opposition to all imperialist powers. Rather, they display some kind of sympathy or even support for China and Russia and recognize only the old Western powers as imperialist. [2] In the case of China, a number of “communist” intellectuals and well-known journals like Monthly Review not only deny the Stalinist-capitalist character of its regime but shamefully glorify it as a kind of “socialism.” [3]

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