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

• Syria

  The Syrian revolution and the failure of the “anti-imperialist” left

  22 October 2018, by Kostas Kousiantas, Pantelis Afthinos

  This article was written after the bombing of Syrian military installations carried out by US, UK and French military forces on April 14th 2018 and before the attack by the Assad regime against Dara’a began.

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• Economy

  A critical look at China’s One Belt, One Road initiative

  21 October 2018, by Martin Hart-Landsberg

  China’s growth rate remains impressive, even if on the decline. The country’s continuing economic gains owe much to the Chinese state’s (1) still considerable ability to direct the activity of critical economic enterprises and sectors such as finance, (2) commitment to policies of economic expansion, and (3) flexibility in economic strategy. It appears that China’s leaders view their recently adopted One Belt, One Road Initiative as key to the country’s future economic vitality. However, there are reasons to believe that this strategy is seriously flawed, with working people, including in China, destined to pay a high price for its shortcomings.

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• Women

  A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

  21 October 2018, by So Yun Alysha Park

  In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women’s movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.

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• China

  Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?

  20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsen

  After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).

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