International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Teamster Election 2021: New Openings, Real Challenges

Barry Eidlin — 2022-02-06T08:59:27Z

“The ability to continue transforming the Teamsters depends on an active, organized rank and file. ”

- IV565 - February 2022 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Post-Election 2020: A Crisis of Representation

Barry Eidlin — 2021-01-14T09:13:23Z

Failed beer hall putsch re-enactments aside, Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 if not sooner—at least for the next four years. The focus now shifts to the post-Trump world: what can we expect from the incoming Biden administration?

- IV552 - January 2021 / United States (USA)

Whoever Wins, This Election Is Not the End of Trumpism

Barry Eidlin — 2020-11-08T08:31:17Z

Joe Biden and the Democrats have steadfastly refused to articulate a compelling alternative political vision to Donald Trump's reactionary right-wing politics. Trump looks likely to have lost, but without creating an alternative to defeat it, Trumpism could return with a vengeance four years from now.

- IV550 - November 2020 / United States (USA)

What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?

Barry Eidlin — 2019-07-21T09:35:41Z

We can't win socialism without workers fighting back. The rank-and-file strategy gives us the tools to do that.
Socialism's recent resurgence has revived core debates about socialist politics and strategy: what do socialists want, and how do we get there? Whether figuring out how socialists should relate to electoral politics, how and to what extent socialists should push for reforms from the state, how socialists should engage with broader social movements, or simply what it means to be (…)

- IV534 - July 2019 / Trade unions/workplace organizing

Class war on new ground

Barry Eidlin — 2019-01-07T08:22:24Z

Socialists are in a hurry these days. With the idea of socialism catching on among a widening swath of the U.S. population, and class conflict showing signs of heating up there can be little time for idle talk. Rather, there is an urgent need to diagnose the current political and economic situation, identify what is new and what is not about that situation, and propose a strategy for the way forward based on the diagnosis.

- Reviews section / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Reviews

Labor's Legitimacy Crisis Under Trump

Barry Eidlin — 2017-07-22T06:04:10Z

As nativist right-wing populism surges across the Global North amidst the exhaustion of social democracy and “Third Way” liberalism, the United States finds itself at the forefront. Elsewhere, right populist parties have led in the polls, as with the Front National in France and the PVV in the Netherlands, or played key roles in seismic political events, as with UKIP and Brexit. But so far, only in the US has the right populist wave captured a major political party and ridden it to power. The improbable election of Donald Trump reflects deep crises within the US political system, but also this broader crisis of modern liberalism.

- IV510 - July 2017 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing