International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• USA

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

  29 November, by Kay Mann

  Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York city mayoral elections has energized the left, enraged Trump (who seems to be trying to coopt him after denouncing him as a “communist” and threatening to cut off federal funding to New York), and stimulated debate on the left regarding independent political action and the use of the Democratic party ballot line.

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• Chile

  From progressive decline to reactionary advance in Chile

  28 November, by Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom

  The first round confirms the shift of the electorate towards right-wing positions —with Kast consolidated as leader of the bloc— in a regional context marked by the expansion of reactionary forces.

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• France

  Political instability in France: act before it’s too late

  27 November, by Elsa Collonges

  The global crisis of capitalism and its ecological dimension are provoking a major political crisis. In the countries of the Global North, and in France in particular, the bourgeoisie is seeking to settle accounts with the post-World War II social compromise, violently and rapidly.

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• Denmark

  The Unity List remains Copenhagen’s largest party

  26 November, by Jonathan Simmel

  Local and regional elections have been held in Denmark, and the Unity List [known internationally as the Red Green Alliance] has once again become Copenhagen’s largest party. The Social Democrats lost the mayoralty to the Socialist People’s Party and lost ground in 86 of 98 municipalities. The results clearly reflect the national political scene, where the Social Democrats chose to form a majority government with two bourgeois parties in 2022.

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• USA

  Six Lawmakers Tell U.S. Troop: Don’t Obey Illegal Orders

  25 November, by Dan La Botz

  “ The six Democrats by making their video have challenged Trump and they have done a great service to our country, to those in the military, and to those at home or abroad who might be victims.”

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Britain

  Britain – difficulties and opportunities...

• Ukraine

  Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice

• Britain

  Notes on the historic rise of the far right in Britain

• Venezuela

  Between Trump’s imperialist offensive and Maduro’s repression

• Portugal

  The bromance between André Ventura and Luis Montenegro in Portugal

Recently posted Features

• 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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• The Basic Theories of Karl Marx

  Marx and Engels on the Economy of Post-Capitalist Societies

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  Marx was disinclined to comment at length about how a socialist or communist economy would operate. He thought such comments to be essentially speculative. Nevertheless, in his major works, especially the Grundrisse and Das Kapital, there are some sparse comments on the subject.

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• The Basic Theories of Karl Marx

  Marx’s Theory of Crises

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  Marx did not write a systematic treatise on capitalist crises. His major comments on the subject are spread around his major economic writings, as well as his articles for the New York Daily Tribune. The longest treatment of the subject is in his Theorien über den Mehrwert, subpart on Ricardo.

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• The Basic Theories of Karl Marx

  The Laws of Motion of the Capitalist Mode of Production

  30 December 2003, by Ernest Mandel

  If Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term ‘laws of motion’ (development trends) of the capitalist mode of production constitutes undoubtedly his most impressive scientific achievement.

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