International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA
  

  Trump, Pope Leo, Jesus, and the Bible

  20 April, by Dan La Botz

  For the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump’s words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion.

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• Spanish state
  

  The Left at the Crossroads: Notes For Building Anew

  19 April, by Julia Cámara, Rául Camargo

  The crisis on the left and the need to start afresh from the middle.

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• Africa
  

  The ravages of agribusiness in Africa

  18 April, by Paul Martial

  The results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.

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• USA
  

  Trump Perceived as a War Criminal and a Mad Man

  17 April, by Dan La Botz

  “Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he’s mentally unstable.”

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• Hungary
  

  Hungary 2026: An Autopsy of Sixteen Years of Illiberalism.

  16 April, by Adam Novak

  The Hungarian legislative elections of 12 April 2026 brought to an end sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. Péter Magyar’s Tisza (Respect and Freedom [Tisztelet és Szabadság]) party won a super-majority of 138 seats out of 199, inflicting on Fidesz a defeat explained by judicial scandals, saturation of the identitarian discourse, a generational fracture, and the concrete effects of the freeze on European funds.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Iran

  Reza Pahlavi speaks of a “revolution”, but what kind?

• Britain

  Your Party consolidates into Labour 2.0… What next?

• Ireland

  The Fuel Protests: Blame The Government Not the Protesters

• USA

  Trump’s failure makes him more dangerous than ever

• Palestine:

  Gaza flotillas - stand together, for as long as it takes

Recently posted Features

• Our history

  The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction

  10 April 2018, by Bill V. Mullen

  In his 1981 book on the February Revolution, Tsuyhoshi Hasegawa includes the story of a young girl walking towards a line of Cossack troops who had come to confront women demonstrators on International Women’s Day.

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• Obituary

  Troglo: will, initiative and revolutionary generosity

  9 April 2018, by Manuel Garí

  José Ramón Castaños known as Troglo (1950-2018) was a long-time leader of the Fourth Internationalists in the Basque country. he died in April 2018.

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• Our History

  Did the Russian Revolution Matter for Africa? (Part I)

  23 March 2018, by Matt Swagler

  In the first of a two-part blogpost, Matt Swagler looks at the first years after the Russian revolution (1917-1935), he discusses the impact of the revolution on African liberation movements before World War II. In the second part he will consider the impact of the Soviet Union on African politics, development and activism in the decades after the war.

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• Economy

  Imperialism Today: A Critical Assessment of Latin American Dependency Theory

  21 March 2018, by Claudio Katz

  Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with the developed economies of the imperialist “North.” He was a close collaborator of, among others, Vânia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos. Marini’s best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of Dependency.

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