International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance

  8 December, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump has intensified his attack on immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, with outbursts of racist language and a barrage of new regulations. But the resistance is also growing.

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• Poland

  Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland

  7 December, by Collective

  “At a time of rising nationalism with a nauseating undertone, both in France and in Poland, there is no better antidote than this concrete solidarity across borders against the same boss.”

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• Climate

  COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics

  6 December, by Brian Ashley

  As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world’s political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

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• USA/Venezula

  Trump’s looming ‘Forever War’: Hands off Latin America and Venezuela!

  5 December, by United Left Platform

  This statement is by the United Left Platform. This is an initiative of a group of revolutionary and independent socialist organizations to actively seek opportunities for joint work, given the unprecedented authoritarian assaults facing the left, oppressed communities, and the working class as a whole in the U.S. and internationally. It is united by a commitment to political independence, a strategic focus on social struggle and mass action, and democratic organizing in all efforts. The organizations of the ULP are International Marxist Humanist Organization (https://imhojournal.org), Socialist Horizon (https://socialisthorizon.org), Solidarity (https://solidarity-us.org), Tempest Collective (https://tempestmag.org), and Workers Voice (https://workersvoiceus.org).

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• Mozambique

  TotalEnergies must face up to its responsibilities in Mozambique

  4 December, by Paul Martial

  A complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique has just been lodged with the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), following the ‘container massacre’.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Britain

  Your Party exists! Now the hard work begins…

• Greece 

  Relentless dismantling of the public education service in Greece

• USA

  Violence and Death at Home and Abroad

• Portugal

  Towards the General Strike in Portugal - Only the strength of those who work can halt the labour package

• USA

  Mamdani’s Victory: what way forward to build the US socialist movement?

Recently posted Features

• Patriarchy, family, feminism

  Hunter-gatherers: gender equality, a key factor in human evolution?

  5 June 2015, by Jean Batou

  The social organization of humanity before the advent of agriculture tells us a lot about the context in which our species evolved over tens of thousands of years. It is in fact distinguished from that of primates by a more intense collaboration between individuals, which allows the development of a "cumulative culture." Researchers have just shown why gender equality may explain this propensity to associate a higher number of individuals coming from different groups (M. Dyble et al., "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands ", Science, 15 May 2015).

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• European History

  Inside the European Cataclysm

  4 June 2015, by Enzo Traverso

  Writing on a century of violence since the Great War, as World War I was once called, could easily turn into a gallery of horrors or an awful, monotonous succession of wars and genocide, from the battle of Verdun to Baghdad, from the Armenian to the Rwanda genocide, passing through Auschwitz and the Gulag.

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• Feminism and Intersectionality

  Is Feminism about ’Women’? A Critical View on Intersectionality from India

  18 May 2015, by Nivedita Menon

  Feminism requires us to recognise that "women" is neither a stable nor a homogeneous category. Does intersectionality as a universal framework help us to capture this complexity? This paper argues that it does not. It addresses this question through the intricacies of the terrain that feminist politics must negotiate, using the Indian experience to set up conversations with feminist debates and experiences globally. Feminism is heterogeneous and internally differentiated. We need to pay attention to challenges to the stability of given identities— including those of "individual" and "woman." These challenges constitute the radically subversive moments that are likely to be most productive for feminism in the 21st century.

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• Environment

  The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left

  13 May 2015, by Alan Thornett

  In this presentation I want to advance four propositions that may be controversial:

  • That biodiversity is the planet’s most valuable resource. It is also its most abused and threatened.

  • That the biodiversity collapse we are witnessing today—the greatest mass extinction of species for 65 million years—is the most fundamental aspect of the whole environmental crisis.

  • That most left environmentalists—including Marxist and socialist environmentalists—have failed to adequately recognise or address it.

  • That this represents a serious failing in the overall approach of the left, including the Marxist left, to the environmental crisis.

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