International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Africa

  Overfishing is plundering waters in Africa

  28 June, by Paul Martial

  “In Senegal, in just five years, the number of sardinella has fallen by 80%. This small, very inexpensive pelagic fish is at the heart of the popular diet and is used in the composition of the national dish: thieboudien.”

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• Denmark

  Enhedslisten: Support for more defence - but which defence?

  27 June, by John Jessen

  “The new defence and security policy adopted at the annual meeting does not indicate that initiatives to organize protests against military armament will come from this direction - at least not from the party leadership. Time will tell if others take up the task.”

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• Mexico

  A mixed success for the President in Mexico

  26 June, by Fabrice Thomas

  On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

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• USA

  State of the Resistance

  25 June, by Against the Current Editors

  A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That’s been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we’re barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

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• Argentina

  Cristina Kirchner condemned and banned from election

  24 June, by M. N.

  The Argentine political field is (again) in turmoil. A few months before the mid-term legislative elections, and only a few days after the announcement of her candidacy as a regional deputy, the Supreme Court has just confirmed former president Cristina Kirchner’s conviction for corruption: 6 years in prison and lifetime ineligibility.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  The United States at War in the Middle East —Again

• Russia

  Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide

• Spanish state

  Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."

• Libya

  Under the yoke of the militias in Libya

• Palestine

  Down with imperialist wars, no to the Paris Air Show!

Recently posted Features

• Women

  The year of #MeToo

  26 April 2018, by Elizabeth Schulte

  Many things can spark a wildfire, but it’s what happens afterward that determines whether that fire will rage. In the case of the #MeToo campaign, the dozens of women who stepped forward to talk about their experiences of having been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was the catalyst for tens of thousands more women to break the silence about their own stories of sexual assault and harassment—providing fuel to a fire that has been long in the making.

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• Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 1

  25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  Proposals Doomed to Fail

  In his latest book, Adults in the Room [1] Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods. [2]

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• Debt

  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 2

  25 April 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed to Fail from the Word ‘Go’

  Disclaimer: This series of articles on Varoufakis’s book, Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment is a guide for left-leaning readers who are not happy with the dominant narrative meted out by the mainstream media and the Troika-controlled governments. This is also a guide for readers who are dissatisfied with the former Finance Minister’s version. As a counterpoint to Varoufakis’s story, I have highlighted events that he is silent about and I have expressed different views on what he should have done and what he did instead. My story runs parallel, and not opposite, to his.

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• Women

  Capitalism and the family

  22 April 2018, by Stephanie Coonz

  Issues of gender and sexuality are dominating the American public in a way that has few precedents in the recent past. From the alarmingly open misogyny of the president to the cascading revelations of sexual attacks in the workplace on one side, to the energy behind the historic women’s marches on the other, gender relations have risen to the top of the political debate. In a wide-ranging conversation, historian Stephanie Coontz places the current juncture in historical perspective, and offers her thoughts on how gender relations have been affected by the recent stagnation in working-class incomes and skyrocketing inequality. She closes with an eloquent plea to integrate gender politics into a broader progressive political vision.

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