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

  Secularists, Secularism and the Syrian uprising

  27 August 2018, by Joseph Daher

  Syrian secularists, and moreover the concept of secularism, are under attack online and on the ground. Joseph Daher takes a critical look at recent efforts to discredit the contribution of Syrian secularists to the 2011 revolution and offers historic perspective on the meaning of secularism and how the concept has been used and misused in the battle to shape the future of Syria.

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• Latin America

  The retreat of the pink tide in Latin America

  27 August 2018, by Jeffery R Webber, Phil Gasper

  Jeffery R. Webber is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He spoke with ISO editorial board member Phil Gasper on April 5, the morning after the Brazilian Supreme Court voted to imprison the country’s former president, Lula da Silva.

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• Our history

  1968 and the Spanish State: The Year in its Context

  20 June 2018, by Josep María Antentas

  Understanding the Spanish 68 requires an understanding of the rise of anti-Francoism in the previous years and its evolution after the state of exception declared in January 1969.

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• Tunisia

  Trade Union Power and Democratic Transition in Tunisia - The UGTT: A Unique Story, An Unprecedented Experience

  19 June 2018, by Sami Adouani and Saïd Ben Sedrine

  In the wake of the collapse of the dictatorship in Tunisia, the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) constituted a key player in ensuring the country stayed on track for a peaceful transition to democracy. This article is intended as a guide facilitating better understanding of the UGTT’s power which allowed the trade union to assert itself and serve as a balancing force in a national context marked by strong political competition and significant social instability. In this context, the authors explore the origins of the UGTT’s power and analyse how these power resources were articulated and combined in the national dialogue (between October 2013 and November 2014), a process that allowed the country to extricate itself from the political impasse, earning the UGTT and three other civil society organisations the Nobel Peace prize in 2015

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