International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Ukraine

  Bruised but determined, the Ukrainian people fight on

  30 October, by Dominique

  While diplomatic manoeuvres take centre stage, the Ukrainian people, in an increasingly difficult context, continue to resist, including in the occupied zones.

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• Madagascar

  After Rajoelina’s regime collapses - desire for a radical break

  29 October, by Paul Martial

  As international pressure mounts to demand the restoration of constitutional order, young people from GenZ and workers are sketching out what the Madagascar of tomorrow could look like.

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• 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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...and the rest of the current issue

• Argentina

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

• Algeria

  Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity

• 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

Recently posted Features

• Marxism

  One question: Class struggle today

  3 December 2018, by Shahrzad Mojab, Adam Hanieh, Cenk Saraço?lu, Charles Umney, Cinzia Arruzza, Dario Azzellini, Demet ?ahende Dinler, Guilherme Leite Gonalves, Immanuel Ness, Jeffery R Webber, Justin Akers Chacón, María Pí­a Lara, Raju J Das, Terrell Carver

  One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

  This month we ask:

  What does class struggle mean today?

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• Spanish state

  The long May 68 in the Spanish state

  21 November 2018, by Manuel Garí

  In the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.

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• Internationalism

  Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism

  21 November 2018, by Catherine Samary

  As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

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• Pakistan

  50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution

  21 November 2018, by Lal Khan

  Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.

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