International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Bolivia
  

  Popular revolt grows in Bolivia

  1 July, by Patrick Guillaudat

  Bolivia has been experiencing a powerful social movement against President Rodrigo Paz’s austerity measures since the spring of 2026. Led by trade union, peasant and indigenous organizations, the mobilization is facing growing repression while maintaining its demands against the high cost of living and the grip of multinationals.

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• USA
  

  Mamdani Advances His Agenda, Helps Elect DSA Candidates to Congress

  30 June, by Dan La Botz

  New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who took office on January 1, 2026, has already advanced his agenda and become a political king-maker. Mamdani ran promising universal childcare, lowering rents, and making buses free. He hasn’t achieved all, but he is well on his way. At the same time, he was able to dominate the recent elections in New York City.

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• Britain
  

  Burnham - a left response

  29 June, by Dave Kellaway

  “Socialists will need to adapt our campaigns and demands to relate to the new political issues and debates that are emerging. We still need to build our eco-socialist alternative independent of the Labour Party and the Greens.”

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• USA
  

  Trump-Netanyahu Debacle: A World of Collateral Damage

  28 June, by David Finkel

  Strait of Hormuz: Nice oil shipping lane there. A real pity if something would happen to it…

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• Mexico
  

  Down with the Neoliberal Reform to ISSSTE Pensions!

  27 June, by MSPP

  “It is a matter of basic social justice that those who have more should pay more in taxes and that workers receive higher and better wages, pensions, and working conditions. In the last year, Mexico’s 24 wealthiest individuals earned US$100 billion, an astronomical figure that contrasts sharply with the stagnation of real wages.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• South Africa

  50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising

• Capitalism

  Earth’s first trillionaire – a damning indictment of late capitalism

• Senegal

  How to deal with illegitimate debt in Senegal?

• Ukraine

  Russian army on the defensive, Ukrainian people on the offensive

• USA

  Trump’s War a Failure, Trump’s Peace a Failure Too

Recently posted Features

• Hungary

  The Political Economy of Hungary’s New “Slave Law”

  5 January 2019, by Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs

  Demonstrations erupted on the streets of Budapest after the Hungarian parliament—controlled by the fourth consecutive super majority of Fidesz government—had just passed three crucial laws in a rapid parliamentary voting on 12th December, which oppositional parties claimed unlawful. The three major elements in the government’s package were the Overtime Act, which quickly became better known as the “Slave law”, the centralization of the courts nomination procedure, and educational amendments, which permit the privatization of public universities.

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• Obituary

  Helena Lopes da Silva (1949-2018)

  31 December 2018, by Mariana Carneiro

  Helena died on September 8, 2018 at the age of 69, after a life dedicated to socialism. In the early 1970s, she was in Lisbon one of the few activists of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the party that led the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime. She also joined the International Communist League (ICL), which became the Portuguese section of the Fourth International (after 1979 the LCI took the name Revolutionary Socialist Party, PSR).

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• Climate

  A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change

  29 December 2018, by Andreas Malm

  Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the ’right direction’. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.

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• China’s Corporate Debt: On the Way to Crisis? Part 1

  An Overview of Chinese Debt

  28 December 2018, by Éric Toussaint

  Are Chinese corporations overleveraged? Since the central government injected massive sums of money in the economy as part of a stimulus plan to fight the Great Recession, debt levels in the Chinese economy have skyrocketed.

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