International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Algeria
  

  Lyes Touati released, a victory for popular solidarity

  4 March, by Mhand Ouchene

  Imprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.

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• Russia/Africa
  

  When Russia draws its cannon fodder from Africa

  3 March, by Paul Martial

  Victims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.

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• USA
  

  Trump Launches War on Iran: Will Americans Support It?

  2 March, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump has launched just such a war on Iran and the question is: Will his base and the American people support or even tolerate it?

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• Pakistan–Afghanistan War
  

  Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War

  1 March, by Farooq Sulehria

  As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under severe strain. Is this merely another episode in a volatile frontier relationship — or the blowback of decades of militarised strategy and proxy politics?

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• France
  

  France: Right-wing offensive follows killing

  28 February, by Léon Crémieux

  Since 12 February 2026, after a clash in Lyon between a group of antifa and a group of fascists that resulted in the death of one of the latter, France has taken a sordid turn in a campaign of demonization and criminalization of La France Insoumise (LFI), the left wing party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is directly accused of being politically responsible for the death of this person.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Greece

  Deaths to order

• Palestine

  Israel’s International Prison Policies

• Ukraine

  A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.

• Japan

  Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election

• USA

  Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon

Recently posted Features

• Daniel Bensaïd

  “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”

  2 December 2015, by Darren Roso

  This paper on the political writings of Daniel Bensaïd was given at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2015.

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• Africa

  New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa

  29 October 2015, by Jean Nanga

  The decolonization that began in the 1940s was essentially a passage towards neocolonialism, a mutation of the former colonies, a reconfiguration of the mechanisms of domination and exploitation by both the former colonial powers and other capitalists of the centre. It was necessary to adapt to the new balance of power on the international stage (the new economic-military hierarchy, the “Cold War”) in both the colonial metropolises and the colonial territories. Three or four decades later, the disappearance of the so-called “communist” camp gave rise to a restructuring of the world order based on the dynamic of the neoliberalisation of capitalism that had been set in motion in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is characterized by a permanent strengthening of the global hold of capital on the world (globalization) and a dynamic of abolition of the “private estate” (concerning the former French colonies), the “backyard” (Latin America for the United States), etc., which were said to limit the free movement of capital, hitherto considered as an intrusion.

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• Women

  The Anti-Abortion Vanguard

  27 October 2015, by Katha Polllitt

  Abortion opponents are at the forefront of a wider effort to punish poor women and attack social services.

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• Chile

  Fifty Years Since Its Founding: ?A History of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)

  5 October 2015, by Franck Gaudichaud

  Fifty years ago, the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) was born, a political force that marked the history of the Chilean and Latin American left. Franck Gaudichaud provides a brief introduction to this story – still under construction – and discusses it with University of Santiago (USACH) historian Igor Goicovic Donoso, specialist on the subject of political violence and an ex-militant of the MIR during the 1980s. [1]

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