International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Algeria
  

  Lyes Touati released, a victory for popular solidarity

  4 March, by Mhand Ouchene

  Imprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.

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• Russia/Africa
  

  When Russia draws its cannon fodder from Africa

  3 March, by Paul Martial

  Victims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.

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• USA
  

  Trump Launches War on Iran: Will Americans Support It?

  2 March, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump has launched just such a war on Iran and the question is: Will his base and the American people support or even tolerate it?

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• Pakistan–Afghanistan War
  

  Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War

  1 March, by Farooq Sulehria

  As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under severe strain. Is this merely another episode in a volatile frontier relationship — or the blowback of decades of militarised strategy and proxy politics?

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• France
  

  France: Right-wing offensive follows killing

  28 February, by Léon Crémieux

  Since 12 February 2026, after a clash in Lyon between a group of antifa and a group of fascists that resulted in the death of one of the latter, France has taken a sordid turn in a campaign of demonization and criminalization of La France Insoumise (LFI), the left wing party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is directly accused of being politically responsible for the death of this person.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Greece

  Deaths to order

• Palestine

  Israel’s International Prison Policies

• Ukraine

  A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.

• Japan

  Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election

• USA

  Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon

Recently posted Features

• In Memoriam

  Carlos Ferra, Historic Pillar of the Socialist, Anti-capitalist Struggle, Has Died

  23 May 2020, by Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria

  We are very sad to announce the death on May 19 of our comrade Carlos Rubén Ferra Martínez (Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, 1942 – Mexico City, 2020), a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Coordinating Group, member organization of the Fourth International.

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• On Socialism

  1985: The Actuality of Socialism

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  This paper first appeared in a collection of essays from the Cavtat Conference in Yugoslavia, Socialism on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century, Milos Nicolic, ed., London 1985.

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• Karl Marx

  1983: Emancipation, science and politics in Karl Marx

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  Originally published in: Ossip K. Flechtheim (ed.), ’Marx Heute. Pro und Contra’ (Hamburg, 1983). This translation is based on the version published in Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx–Die Aktualität seines Werks (Frankfurt am Main, 1984).

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• National and class

  1971: On the dialectic of nation and class struggle

  23 May 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  Only by starting from the centrality of class struggle can we explain the development of nationalism. However, that the theory of historical materialism gives class struggle a primary place in history does not mean class struggle is the only factor in history. In fact, at different times in history other factors can become primary. But whenever we ask why other factors can become primary, we are lead back to the question of class struggle. The development of nationalism is a case in point.

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