International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Anti‑militarism without pacifism

Andy Kilmister, Liz Lawrence — 2025-08-17T09:31:45Z

What attitudes should socialists and trade unionists have to war?

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Britain, Ukraine

Decolonial Communism reviewed

Andy Kilmister — 2019-07-29T11:08:31Z

Decolonial Communism, Democracy and the Commons, by Catherine Samary, with contributions from Samuel Farber, Silvia Federici, Franck Gaudichaud, Zagorska Golubovic, Ernest Mandel, Goran Markovic, Svetozar Stojanovic and Raquel Varela. Pub. Resistance Books/IIRE/Merlin Press, 2019.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Ex-Yugoslavia, Reviews

What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes

2016-04-14T07:55:54Z

Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it's time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the promises they made in the wake of the crisis – to moralise the banking system, separate commercial banks from investment banks, end exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and finally finance the real economy. We didn't believe those promises at the time, and for good reason. Instead of a moralising of the banking system, all we've had is a long list of misappropriations that have been brought to light by a series of bank failures, beginning with that of Lehman Brothers in 15 September, 2008.

- IV495 - April 2016 / Economy, Debt

The Economic Crisis and its Effects

Andy Kilmister — 2008-12-30T10:29:23Z

The current economic crisis has broken the temporary solutions which have ruled the world economy since the mid-1980s. Profits had been created through production but, in contradiction, were realised through circulation and exchange. British is now exceptionally vulnerable to the crisis.

- IV407 - December 2008

The `Prague Spring' and the `Prague Autumn'

Andy Kilmister — 2008-12-14T11:31:11Z

November 21 2008 marked the fortieth anniversary of the end of the student strike in Czechoslovakia against the occupation of the country by Russian troops the preceding August.

- IV407 - December 2008

The World Economy and the Credit Crisis

Andy Kilmister — 2008-06-14T17:34:43Z

The current credit crisis is throwing into question the whole of the neoliberal, free market, order that when the post-war boom went into crisis in the mid-1970s, it was eventually resolved in the mid-1980s by a new economic order, neoliberalism.

- IV401 - June 2008 / Economy