International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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)

May Day: No Oligarchs, No ICE, No War

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-05T10:18:21Z

Tens of thousands of working people across the United States joined the May Day Strong protests in 3,500 cities demanding “Workers over billionaires,” “No ICE” (immigration police) and “No War.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements

Another Attempt to Assassinate Trump Could Put the Left in Danger

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-29T08:43:53Z

“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

Trump, Pope Leo, Jesus, and the Bible

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-20T10:03:56Z

For the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump's words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

Trump Perceived as a War Criminal and a Mad Man

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-17T04:57:17Z

“Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he's mentally unstable.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

Trump's barbarous war on Iran, part of a long history of war crimes

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-07T05:22:33Z

President Donald Trump's war on Iran is barbarous, cruel, vicious, undertaken and carried out without a bit of concern for the millions of human beings it is affecting in Iran, in the region, and throughout the world. The nature of the war was revealed on the first day, 28 February , when the United States hit a school in Minab and killed an estimated 175 people, 100 of them children. Attacks on civilians are a war crime, all too common a war crime in all modern wars. Now Trump is threatening an even greater war crime.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Iraq, Vietnam, Iran

Millions march Against Trump's war and immigration policies

Dan La Botz — 2026-03-30T05:39:49Z

Eight million people in the United States participated in 3,300 No Kings protests against President Donald Trump and his policies, marching in all 50 states on Saturday, 28 March . I marched with my family in Brooklyn, New York.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)

Cesar Chavez, Civil Rights and Labor icon, raped girls and women

Dan La Botz — 2026-03-25T16:25:28Z

Cesar Chavez, who in the 1960s led the struggles of Mexican Americans for civil rights and of farmworkers for labor unions, was accused in a carefully researched New York Times article of having raped women and sexually abused girls as young as 13. Among those women was Dolores Huerta, herself a founder and leader of the union, who confirmed that he forced himself on her and fathered two of her children, secretly raised by others. Debra Rojas reported that Chavez had had intercourse with her when she was 15, which is rape under state law because she was too young to give legal consent.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)