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

• Fourth International

  September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International

  19 October 2018, by Arthur Nicola, Laurent Ripart, Léon Crémieux, Michael Löwy, Penelope Duggan

  This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.

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• Palestine/Israel

  The implications of the Balfour declaration

  20 September 2018, by Gilbert Achcar , Julien Salingue

  Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.

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• Israel

  Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy

  18 September 2018, by B. Skanthakumar

  The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.

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• Obituary

  A last farewell to Mick Woods

  16 September 2018, by Lone Degn, Ulf B. Andersson

  Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July. But its not only in Britain and Denmark that Mick is mourned - the proudest achievement of his political life was his involvement in International Workers’ Aid, a campaign of practical solidarity with multi-ethnic Bosnia. The tribute below, from Ulf B Andersson from Swedish Workers’ Aid, was read at his funeral by former Danish MEP Søren Sondergaard who first met Mick through the campaign. The second piece was written for his memorial meeting in London, also addressed by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell by Danish comrade Lone Degn. Establishing a proper archive for IWA would be the best tribute we could pay to Mick - Eds

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