International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Palestine solidarity

  What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?

  5 September, by Marco Bertorello

  The large mobilization for the Global Sumud Flotilla is a barometer of the social climate. And it tells us that there is still room for humanity.

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• Economy and Ecology

  Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

  4 September, by Phil Hearse

  What does the crisis in the coffee industry tell us about global warming? The links between climate, economy and the precarity of workers.

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• Denmark/Ukraine

  Return from Ukraine

  3 September, by Bjarke Friborg

  The Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on questions of popular defence and security in Europe. This reflection is nourished by its sustained and permanent commitment in favour of Ukraine. It actively supports Ukrainian trade unions and social movements as well as progressive anti-fascist fighters who combat Russian imperialism.

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• Canada

  More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

  2 September, by David Camfield

  After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers’ right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
  Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)

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• USA

  Trump Fires Top Officials, Seizes Control of American Cities

  1 September, by Dan La Botz

  Many of us were on vacation last month, but President Donald Trump was hard at work, dismantling American democracy and creating a reactionary authoritarian state. Trump, in an attempt to take personal and absolute control of the federal government in unprecedented moves of dubious legality, terminated three top level government officials.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Indonesia

  Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians’ Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims

• Ukraine

  Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

• South Africa

  If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

• Famine

  Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North’s Indifference

• USA/Russia

  Negotiations in Alaska

Recently posted Features

• Feminist theory

  Postmodernism and Feminism

  10 September 2012, by Jane Kelly

  The term postmodernism has entered into common currency with a rapidity that modernism, “after” which it is named, never achieved: it has a trendy contemporaneity but is little understood. Partly through its description of reality as a series of images, or “simulacra” in Baudrillard’s word, it has attained popular cultural status in the media, especially television, as well as modish respectability in the academy, across Europe and North America.

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• USA:

  The significance of Occupy

  29 August 2012, by Dan La Botz, Joel Jordan, Robert Brenner

  The Occupy Movement, the first such broad, national, multi-issue, mass movement in forty years, represented a test for the revolutionary socialist left in several senses. First, would the left recognize its important and immediately move to become an active part of it and work within it to help provide leadership? Second, would the left during Occupy be able to both appreciate its strengths and develop a critique of its weaknesses and limitations? Would it as the same time be able to conduct socialist propaganda and recruit to the socialist movement? Third, would the left in retrospect be able to analyze and learn from the Occupy experience in order to prepare itself for future movements?

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• Francis Fukuyama and the ‘absent left’

  21 August 2012, by Phil Hearse

  Whatever the (well deserved) derision heaped on the head of Francis Fukuyama for his ‘end of history’ thesis, he has the merit of posing the big questions. In his ‘The Future of History’ article (Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb) he poses two big questions that are vital for Marxists: Is the neoliberal undermining of the social position of the employed working class and poorer sections of the middle class compatible with liberal democracy? and What explains what he calls the ‘absent left’ – the lack in theory or practice of a powerful left/populist alternative to neoliberalism in a period of such drastic economic collapse and moral bankruptcy of the dominant neoliberal model?

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• Obituary

  A personal tribute to Dave Packer

  26 July 2012, by Phil Hearse

  Dave Packer’s life was one of triumph – over disability, over ill health and the kind of personal and political adversity that would have immobilised less determined comrades. His tenacity enabled him to apply his sharp analytical and propagandistic abilities to fight for revolutionary Marxism over four decades. To the end he was engaged in a sustained effort to analyse to new situation in world capitalism and the international left and apply the lessons for the socialist movement in Britain and elsewhere. For more than 30 years his work was sustained by a close political collaboration with his partner Jane Kelly.

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