International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Portugal

  Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections

  15 June, by Daniel Borges

  The results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections on 18 May 2025 mark a turning point in the country’s politics. The traditional right was comfortably in the lead and the Socialist Party has fewer deputies than the far right (after counting the votes of the emigrant constituencies). The right-wing parties as a whole won two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, while the left obtained the lowest result in its history.
  All the parties to the left of the PS recorded their lowest results. (…)

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• USA

  The battle of Los Angeles

  14 June, by Tempest Collective

  As "No Kings" protests take place across the US - and in other cities worldwide such as Mexico DF, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - challenging Trump’s authoritarian rule, we publish this on the spot account of last weekend in Los Angeles.

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• Ukraine

  Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...

  13 June, by Gin Vola, Elias Vola

  Resistance to the Russian invasion has not erased class divisions within Ukrainian society. The inequalities of our capitalist societies and the brutal neoliberalism applied by the Zelensky government are significantly affecting the population of Ukraine. The popular classes thus fight on a "double front", against anti-social policies and imperialist aggression.

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• Serbia

  Student protest in Serbia: “either we stop or there will be a civil war”

  12 June, by Gaëlle Guehennec

  Since November 2024, Serbian students have been leading an unprecedented revolt against Vučić’s corrupt government. Along with two Belgian comrades from the Gauche Anticapitaliste, I went to Belgrade to meet them.
  In front of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy, a table and camping chairs were set up. A dozen or so students wrapped up in duvets were watching the entrance. On the table were sudokus and packets of cigarettes to pass the time. The students take 8am shifts to secure the faculty, (…)

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• Italy

  Left fails to win its referendums in Italy

  11 June, by Dave Kellaway

  “All five referendums were lost because none reached the quorum of 50% of the electorate. Around 88-89% who voted supported the progressive changes to the labour laws but this went down by 33 percentage points for the change to the citizenship process for immigrants.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• South Sudan

  Peace under threat in South Sudan

• USA

  As Immigration Protests Grow, Trump Calls Out National Guard

• Yemen

  The women’s uprising in Yemen

• Italy

  Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

• Palestine

  Pity the people of Gaza!

Recently posted Features

• Ecosocialism

  To save the environment, we must end the profit system

  3 March, by Ian Angus

  A Portuguese translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, was published in Brazil in 2023. I was subsequently interviewed by Claudia Antunes for the multilingual magazine SUMAÚMA, a radical environmental journal that takes its name from one of the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest. SUMAÚMA published the interview in September 2024. This lightly edited version was published in Monthly Review in January 2025.—Ian Angus

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• Sri Lanka

  In Sri Lanka, the new government’s policy: a lost historic opportunity

  19 February, by Éric Toussaint

  Éric Toussaint looks back at the situation in Sri Lanka since 2022. From popular revolts to the new centre-left government elected at the end of 2024, including negotiations with creditors, this overview provides a better understanding of the situation, rich in lessons, in a country whose social, economic and political situation is largely unknown. Éric Toussaint compares what is happening in Sri Lanka with what happened in Greece in 2015 and in Argentina between 2019 and 2023, putting into perspective the risk of a hard right-wing government in the future.

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• Ukraine

  Three things people think they know about Ukraine in wartime

  19 February, by Anna Colin Lebedev

  Everyday life in wartime - how to organise a mass army, signing up, deserting, training....

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• Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’

  19 February, by Hanna Perekhoda

  In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.

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