International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• 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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• South Africa

  If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

  29 August, by Fani Ncapayi, Mercia Andrews

  South Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa’s Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.

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• Famine

  Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North’s Indifference

  28 August, by Gilbert Achcar

  The famines in Gaza and Sudan: how they compare and what lessons can be drawn from the world powers’ inaction towards them.

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• USA/Russia

  Negotiations in Alaska

  27 August, by Posle

  Does Trump’s peace deal have a future?

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...and the rest of the current issue

• 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

• Syria

  Syria’s future won’t be secure through Israel normalisation

• USA

  Trump’s Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC

• Afghanistan

  Women in the Shadow of Global Fascism: The Narrative of an Afghan Girl & a Truth Which Knows No Boundaries

Recently posted Features

• Asia

  Labour’s Polycrisis

  20 August, by Kevin Lin

  A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don’t have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.

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• Ecology

  The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky

  20 August, by Daniel Tanuro

  For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...

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• Fourth International

  Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

  20 August, by Alex de Jong

  The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo’ Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case’ led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

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• Fascism

  “For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”

  7 August, by Gilbert Achcar , Ilya Budraitskis

  Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture

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