International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate

Adam Hanieh, Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2026-05-11T17:10:15Z

“The deepening climate emergency means that we need to put upfront the question of the climate and the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels. The Middle East is absolutely key to this because it sits at the centre of the world oil and gas industry, particularly in relation to global exports. The politics of the region – from Palestine to Iran – cannot be understood separate from this role of the Middle East in the global energy system.”

- Features / Palestine, United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Ecology and the Environment, Israel, Iran, Kurdistan

Free public transport in Ukraine

Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:35:31Z

The common weal versus capitalist modernity.
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems.
Public transport has been made free in more than 130 municipalities in Brazil – and, in Europe, Luxembourg; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia and several French cities.
In this interview, the writer and activist Denys Gorbach talks with Dr Simon Pirani about Kryvyi (…)

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, Public services

“We Wanted to Show the Whole Range of Anti-War Resistance in Russia”

Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:18:39Z

“They come from different generations, have different life experiences, and hold different political views. This diversity demonstrates that, despite the absence of public demonstrations and the lack of any real possibility of organizing an open anti-war movement in Russia, an anti-war movement does exist there.”

- Reviews section / Russia, Ukraine, Reviews

Raging Against Vladimir Putin's War Machine

Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T14:57:40Z

“In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s.”

- Features / Ukraine, Reviews

Russian terror in occupied areas of Ukraine: homes confiscated en masse

Simon Pirani — 2024-07-25T16:43:35Z

Russian authorities in occupied areas of Ukraine have intensified attacks on Ukrainian identity by confiscating people's homes en masse, labour activists report.

- IV594 - July 2024 / Russia, Ukraine

Russia turns Ukraine's occupied areas into an armed camp

Simon Pirani — 2024-02-25T14:16:57Z

Simon Pirani writes on ten years of war, and two years of all-out invasion in Ukraine

- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia, Ukraine

Belarusian ‘railway partisans' face death penalty

Simon Pirani — 2022-07-24T17:29:35Z

The Belarusian regime is threatening “railway partisans”, arrested for sabotaging signalling equipment to disrupt the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the death sentence.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Belarus