International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

  Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder

  4 June, by Malik Miah

  “His murder led to nationwide and international protests and a reexamination of societal and institutional racism, including policing. Five years later what is the legacy of Floyd’s death and movement for justice and police accountability?”

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• Panama

  Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

  3 June, by José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-Molina

  A small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.

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• USA

  Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”

  2 June, by Dan La Botz

  America had two previous political purges of the left, the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, and now we’re in the midst of the Trump purge—and it’s worse than the earlier ones.

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• Kurdistan

  Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives

  1 June, by Mireille Court

  On February 2025, from the Turkish island of Imrali where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, “Apo” (uncle) as he is affectionately known to the Kurds, called for the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and an end to the armed struggle in Turkey. The stunned reaction of some international opinion showed the extent to which the PKK’s political evolution had been ignored.

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• Mali

  A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

  31 May, by Paul Martial

  The ban on political parties in Mali is a further step in the consolidation of a dictatorship incapable of curbing jihadist attacks. From now on, all political parties in Mali will be dissolved. This was a recommendation of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the legislative body set up by the junta that seized power in 2021.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Britain

  Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game

• Portugal

  Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

• South Africa

  South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

• Madagascar

  Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy

• USA

  Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt

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• The end of history?

  World Revolution Today

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  The concept of the three sectors of the world revolution refers to the different strategic-historical tasks with which the revolutionary process is confronted today. But this only represents the first step towards a concretization of the concept of world revolution today. The question of these sectors and their interaction, and hence their growing unity, has also to be raised.

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• The end of history?

  Political Revolution in So-called Socialist Societies

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  The concept of political (anti-bureaucratic) revolution in the bureaucratized societies in transition between capitalism and socialism (bureaucratized workers states) was first launched by Trotsky in 1933. It resulted from the diagnosis of the growing contradictions of Soviet society and from the prediction that these contradictions could no longer be removed through reforms; and it was related, therefore to the prediction that a self-reform of the bureaucracy was impossible.

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• The end of history?

  The Lessons of Third World Revolutions

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  The revolutionary processes in the Third World since World War II have confirmed the validity of the strategy of permanent revolution. Wherever these processes have climaxed in a full break with the old ruling classes and with international capital the historical tasks of the national-democratic revolution (national unification, independence from imperialism) have been realized.

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• The end of history?

  The Possibility of Revolution in the West

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  Revolutions and counter-revolutions, being real historical processes, always occur in really existing social-economic formations which are always specific. No two countries in the world are exactly alike, if only because their basic social classes and the major fractions of these classes are products of the specific history of each of these countries.

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