International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Radicalisation on right and left while centre crumbles in Britain

Dave Kellaway — 2025-11-04T23:01:10Z

Dave Kellaway assesses the political situation where creeping fascism is advancing, the Labour centre is not holding but radicalisation to the left is also significant.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Britain

Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide

Dave Kellaway — 2025-08-13T10:19:00Z

“Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, Britain

New Left party – an historic opportunity?

Dave Kellaway — 2025-07-30T17:02:24Z

An assessement of the opportunities opened by the launch of the new left party by former Labour MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Britain, New parties of the left

Starmer's first year – things can only get worse

Dave Kellaway — 2025-07-19T08:36:00Z

Sitting in number 10 Downing Street after the government's debacle and U turn over the welfare, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney must have thought: these people are so ungrateful.
“Here they are taking a wrecking ball to Reeves and Kendall's project to save £5 billion with welfare cuts. But I made these MPs. I ensured nearly every left wing candidate had been eliminated early from any selection process. My team assiduously sifted through thousands of social (…)

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Britain

Solidarity with Gaza is not antisemitic - Death to hypocrisy

Dave Kellaway — 2025-07-05T07:21:17Z

The mass movement for solidarity with the population of Gaza and of Palestine worldwide is labelled antisemitic and subject to repression both collectively by the banning of Palestine solidarity organizations (Palestine Action in Britain labelled as terrorist, threat of dissolution against Urgence Palestine in France for example) and against individuals including many academics sacked for denouncing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Palestine, Britain, antisemitism

Left fails to win its referendums in Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2025-06-11T09:57:48Z

“All five referendums were lost because none reached the quorum of 50% of the electorate. Around 88-89% who voted supported the progressive changes to the labour laws but this went down by 33 percentage points for the change to the citizenship process for immigrants.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2025-06-07T12:36:07Z

Italy votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni's post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Reform – Labour is feeding the monster

Dave Kellaway — 2025-05-06T06:23:40Z

The centre cannot hold! In the wake of Reform's massive gains in local elections, Dave Kellaway investigates the new political landscape.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Britain

Political Review of 2024 - a view from Britain

Dave Kellaway, Terry Conway — 2024-12-31T19:20:15Z

It is that time of year when we reflect on the key events of 2024. Unlike the mainstream mass media we are interested in examining what happened from the point of view of the current and historic interests of the working class. Our task is to deconstruct the ideology that focuses on the visually dramatic, political or cultural personalities or the trivial.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Palestine, United States (USA), Britain, Syria, Women, Ukraine, LGBT, Far Right, Ecosocialism, Racism and Islamophobia

Why do socialists organise internationally?

Dave Kellaway — 2024-12-31T17:32:44Z

What are the arguments for eco socialists to be part of a revolutionary international?

- Features / Marxism, Britain, Fourth International