International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• 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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• Indonesia

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

  31 August, by Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API)

  The death of Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver who participated in mass action and was run over by security apparatus vehicles, cannot be viewed as an isolated incident. This event is part of the face of systematic state violence; the apparatus is used to silence the people’s voices with impunity that continues to be allowed.

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• Ukraine

  Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

  30 August, by Helene Vadsten

  The Ukrainian left acts where official systems fail. Bjarke Friborg and Helene Vadsten visited Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Here is Helene’s accout of the visit.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• South Africa

  If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

• Famine

  Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North’s Indifference

• USA/Russia

  Negotiations in Alaska

• Cymru/Wales

  Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025

• South Africa

  Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories

Recently posted Features

• 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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• The end of history?

  Revolutions and Counter-revolutions

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  While revolutions are historical facts of life, counter-revolutions are likewise undeniable realities. Indeed, counter-revolutions seem regularly to follow revolutions as night follows day. Etymology confirms this paradox. The very concept of “revolution” originates from the sciences of astronomy. The movements of planets evolve in an orbital manner, returning to the point of departure.

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