International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  Learning from the DSA convention

  16 August, by Paul Le Blanc

  A different view on the DSA convention.

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• USA

  DSA’s 2025 National Convention: A New Chapter Opens Up for the Socialist Movement

  15 August, by Philip Locker, Stephan Kimmerle

  “The challenge for revolutionary Marxists is to build a Marxist center of DSA that can lead in the direction of principled mass work and national visibility of DSA in broader movements against Trump, in labor, and in social movements.”

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• Palestine

  The “Day After” in Gaza

  14 August, by Gilbert Achcar

  “Hypocritical cries of condemnation have risen, warning Netanyahu that this project will lead to massive displacement and a large number of deaths, as if the genocide and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist army over the past 22 months, and supported during several months by the same Western governments that are blaming Netanyahu today, were not already worse than what he is promising now.”

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• Britain

  Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide

  13 August, by Dave Kellaway

  “Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”

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• Fourth International

  Fighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp

  12 August, by Collective

  “The last bus awaits in the camp’s parking lot. Young people, most of whom didn’t know each other a week before, exchange phone numbers, social media, and hugs. Here and there, tears flow, as if to prolong the downpours that punctuated the week.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• South Africa

  Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises

• Bangladesh

  One year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation

• Palestine solidarity - Britain

  Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms

• Britain

  Building grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers

• Palestine/Israel

  Our Genocide — Executive Summary

Recently posted Features

• Part 5 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  The French press in the pay of the Tsar

  6 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  With the overthrow of Tsarism in February 1917 and the seizing of power by the Bolsheviks and their Socialist Revolutionary allies in October, numerous previously confidential documents were made public (see further on). This allowed Boris Souvarine, a Franco-Russian communist activist to consult Russian imperial archives. He discovered a vast organisation of complicity with the French press that pre-dated the First World War, aimed at promoting Tsarist bond issues to French investors. This affair, in which influential people were corrupted and became accomplices, was denounced by the communist daily L’Humanité in a series of daily articles entitled ’The abominable venality of the French press’ that appeared over a period of several months during 1923 and 1924.

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• Part 4 of the series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  The Russian Revolution, Peoples’ Right to Self-determination, and Debt Repudiation

  6 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  The Versailles Treaty was eventually signed on 28 June 1919 without Soviet Russia being involved. Even so, this treaty cancelled the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Under Article 116 of the Versailles Treaty, Russia could claim compensation from Germany;yet, consistent with its demand for peace without any annexation or any claim for compensation, it did not do so. What mattered most to Soviet Russia was that the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk should be cancelled and the territories that Germany had annexed in March 1918 be given back to the peoples to whom they had belonged (the Baltic, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian peoples), in accordance with the principle of peoples’ right to self-determination upheld by the new Soviet government.

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• Part 3 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  The Russian Revolution, Debt Repudiation, War and Peace

  6 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  In early January 1918, the Soviet government suspended payment on foreign debt, and in early February 1918 it decreed that all Tsarist debts were repudiated as were those contracted to continue the war by the provisional government between February and November 1917. At the same time, it decided that all assets of foreign capitalists in Russia would be confiscated and returned to the national heritage. In repudiating these debts, the Soviet government was implementing a decision made in 1905 by the soviet (people’s council) of Petrograd (St Petersburg) and the various parties that supported it. This triggered a wave of unanimous protest from the capitals of the major allied powers.

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• Part 2 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  From Tsarist Russia to the 1917 revolution and the repudiation of debt

  6 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  The Napoleonic wars ended with Russia emerging as a great European power and participating in the Holy Alliance of three European monarchies, founded on September 26, 1815 in Paris, at the behest of Tsar Alexander I. The Alliance had won over the Napoleonic Empire and they wanted to consolidate their positions and protect themselves from revolutions. Originally, the Russian Empire, the Empire of Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia were the constituents, while France (where the monarchy had been restored) joined in 1818 and London extended its support.

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