International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Fourth of July at 250: The On-Going Struggle for Equality, Democracy, and Justice

Dan La Botz — 2026-07-20T10:29:46Z

“On July 4, our 250th birthday as a nation, we should celebrate the underdogs, the dissidents, the rebellious who fought and continue to fight against exploitation and oppression, and stand for equality, democracy, and justice.”

- Features / United States (USA), Historical events and figures

Trump Says U.S. Elections Rife with Fraud, Demands New Election Law, May Send Troops to Polling Places. Is He Preparing a Coup?

Dan La Botz — 2026-07-20T09:01:36Z

In a half-hour, prime-time national speech, President Donald Trump claimed that U.S. elections are vulnerable to foreign interference, to massive non-citizen voting, and to fraud. He called upon Congress to pass what he calls the SAVE America Act, though its actual name is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA)

Progressives Strategic Failure: A Warning

Dan La Botz — 2026-07-12T17:09:05Z

Democratic Party candidates are perceived by many voters as part of the system, part of the establishment, which indeed most are. The most common profession of Democratic congressional representatives and senators is law. Most don't seem to share the common experiences of working class and lower middle-class people, because in fact they don't. Lawyers' average incomes range between $150,000 and $250,000, while the median income for American workers is $45,000 to $64,000,

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA)

Trump Campaigns on Anti-Communism as Left Opponents Are Indicted

Dan La Botz — 2026-07-06T06:32:29Z

“The previous two Red Scares strengthened right-wingers in both the Democratic and Republican Parties and drove many leftists underground or out of the movement. While we don't know what Trump's Red Scare will do, it has to be seen as a serious threat to the left, to the unions, and to the social movements.”

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA)

Mamdani Advances His Agenda, Helps Elect DSA Candidates to Congress

Dan La Botz — 2026-06-30T14:48:01Z

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who took office on January 1, 2026, has already advanced his agenda and become a political king-maker. Mamdani ran promising universal childcare, lowering rents, and making buses free. He hasn't achieved all, but he is well on his way. At the same time, he was able to dominate the recent elections in New York City.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA)

Four Thousand Worker Activists at Labor Notes Conference Plan to Fight

Dan La Botz — 2026-06-16T11:04:01Z

More than 4,000 worker activists gathered in Chicago from June 12-14 for the Labor Notes Conference where they discussed the challenges facing unions and workers, shared experiences, and planned for the fights of the future. They came from across the United States and some from countries around the world. The conference began with and was permeated with a commitment to strengthen unions, to stand up to the corporations and the government, and to improve the lives of working people.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

What Sort of Electoral Politics? A Debate in the U.S. Left

Dan La Botz — 2026-06-08T10:51:57Z

The left in the United States is once again, as always, debating how to engage in electoral politics. The debate seems more meaningful this year when more voters consider themselves to be independents (45%) than to be either Republicans (27%) or Democrat (27%). Could the left now present the disaffected with a political alternative.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA)

Trump's Justice Department Bring Charge Against Raul Castro—What's next?

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-25T11:00:15Z

President Donald Trump's Justice Department on May 20, 2026 charged Raúl Castro with murder. Raúl, the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and established a Communist pro-Soviet state by 1961. The charges against him stem from February 1996 when a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue flew two planes toward Cuba but while still in international airspace were shot down by Cuban fighter planes, killing four people in the planes. Now the Trump government is holding Raúl Castro, who has served as head of the Communist Party and chief of state, responsible for those deaths.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Cuba

Trump, the Supreme Court, and State Legislatures Rig Future Elections

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-19T12:30:39Z

“Historically redistricting has been carried out in all states at the time of the decennial census to reflect changes in population, but now it is being done between censuses in a partisan manner to benefit one party.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Trump's Murderous Regime, at Home and Abroad

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-12T09:37:33Z

During his second term as president, full of confidence and bluster, Donald Trump has turned to rule by killing, by murder, both abroad and at home. Trump's brutality and callousness, the way he talks about the violence against immigrants and Iranians with such lack of empathy and humanity has become the defining characteristic of the regime.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA)