International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Round Up on the 3rd No Kings Day

Against the Current Editors — 2026-04-10T06:18:34Z

Eight million people took to the streets across the United States on 28 March, marching, rallying and picketing in over 3,300 sites. They came out to support their neighbors and coworkers who are threatened by masked and armed men. They opposed the authoritarianism of the Trump team with humor in their signs and costumes, but at the same time they can joke, they are willing to stand firm.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

Racial Injustice Inferno

Against the Current Editors — 2025-12-27T10:30:24Z

“Whether the Trump presidency is truly in crisis is too early to say. If its daily crimes against humanity are to bring about its downfall, it has to be organized and disciplined movement activism to push it over the cliff.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

State of the Resistance

Against the Current Editors — 2025-06-25T09:23:43Z

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That's been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we're barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)

Lessons of abductions and terror

Against the Current Editors — 2025-04-20T05:43:55Z

The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian graduate student and green card holder seized March 8 at his Columbia University residence — is now multiplied by other high-profile detentions and deportation threats, and dozens or even hundreds of unpublicized cases. Secretary of State Marco Rubio openly boasts as much.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA)

Genocide and Beyond

Against the Current Editors — 2025-02-24T08:26:50Z

The sadistic savagery of the U.S.-enabled Israeli genocide, and Donald Trump's executive coup-in-progress in the United States, intersect at Trump's proclamation of intent to take over, “develop” and ethnically cleanse Gaza of its two million Palestinian residents.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel

The Chaos Known and Unknown

Against the Current Editors — 2024-12-25T10:20:38Z

The advent of “Trump 2.0” poses dangers and challenges in U.S. society as well as globally — including the non-trivial problem of surviving environmental catastrophe — and most certainly to the social movement and socialist left. We will attempt here to sort through those elements of the swirling chaos that are pretty well known, and suggest where the uncertainties may lie. We know for sure that all our movements will be under attack — and it's absolutely essential to stand together and refuse to be intimidated or divided. How extreme the assaults may become isn't certain, and the strength of immediate resistance can make a big difference.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA)

Election and Widening War

Against the Current Editors — 2024-10-31T16:36:16Z

With war and genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with Florida and southern states inundated by the twin biggest climate-change flood disasters in U.S. history, and people's general insecurity about their own and the country's future, the United States lurches toward what's called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may resolve little or nothing.

- IV597 - October 2024 / United States (USA)

Slouching Toward November

Against the Current Editors — 2024-08-07T05:32:02Z

Facing the hideous specter of a second Trump presidency, the operational leadership of the Democratic Party – that is, the party mega-donors – ultimately took the reins and pushed aside its all-too-visibly declining incumbent standard-bearer. From the voting base on July 21 came the instant response: “Free at last, free at last – thank God Almighty (and Covid), we're free of Biden at last!”

- IV595 - August 2024 / United States (USA)

The “Antisemitism” Smear Weaponized

Against the Current Editors — 2024-05-16T18:30:00Z

“In this climate it's necessary both to defend Palestine solidarity activism and to state clearly what antisemitism is – and isn't.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel

Chaos Here and There

Against the Current Editors — 2024-05-02T07:59:00Z

“We will explore here how dysfunction and looming chaos in U.S. bourgeois politics, and the existing and deepening global disorder, intersect and tend to magnify each other. Two genocidal wars and invasions occupy center stage — where in both Gaza and Ukraine, each day's monstrous atrocities are exceeded by the next — impacting both the United States and the mockingly named “rules-based” international order.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / United States (USA)