International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The Reasons for the US-Israeli Aggression against Iran

Sarah Selami — 2026-05-20T14:01:54Z

“It is important to remember that the Islamic Republic of Iran — and more broadly the Iranian capitalism it administers — is not a simple passive victim of this warlike configuration. It is a fully-fledged player, committed to its own logic of power, internal consolidation and regional influence.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Israel, Iran

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

Support for the flotilla targeted by the Israeli assault

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2026-04-30T10:35:17Z

Last night, the world once again witnessed Israel's absolute impunity. The Israeli army carried out a raid in international waters, intercepting and rendering several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) inoperable. This assault took place off the coast of Crete – nearly 1,000 km from Gaza!

- News from around the world / Palestine, Israel

Living conditions and resistance in Lebanon

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard — 2026-04-21T09:26:56Z

“Nevertheless, there is today a left-wing sensibility in Lebanon, anti-imperialist, opposed to the occupation and which has concrete effects on the ground, limited but nevertheless real. It is trying to build something, in particular what could be called a form of civil resistance.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Death penalty by hanging for Palestinians

Osama Abu Rabee — 2026-04-06T05:17:39Z

The Israeli colonial state did not need a new law to kill Palestinians. Yet, on Monday, 30 March 2026, the Israeli parliament passed a law establishing the death penalty, by hanging, for Palestinians — and only for Palestinians.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Palestine, Israel

Zionist expansionism in Lebanon seizes upon Hezbollah as a pretext

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-04-01T16:18:00Z

Never had a military initiative of the Lebanese Hezbollah (literally, Party of God) been so much repudiated in Lebanon as its decision on March 2 to launch rockets across the country's southern border with the Israeli state, in retaliation against the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This opening salvo was immediately seized upon by the Zionist state as a pretext to launch a long-premeditated invasion of southern Lebanon.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Israel's International Prison Policies

Édouard Soulier, Monira Moon — 2026-02-26T15:20:00Z

As colonization and repression intensify in Palestine, Israeli prison policy is reaching an unprecedented level. Mass arrests, torture, arbitrary detentions and the international extension of repressive measures are part of a globalized colonial system.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Palestine, Israel

From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-01-14T16:20:36Z

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, (…)

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Arab Revolutions

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza by NGOs and Somaliland

Sara Laska — 2026-01-07T08:42:00Z

From 1 March, 37 NGOs will be banned from operating in the Gaza Strip, even though they are essential resources for the population. This decision is part of a broader plan to privatise and militarise humanitarian aid. It has two objectives: to control the narrative and to carry out ethnic cleansing, which is explicitly the aim of the plan to expel Gazans to Somaliland.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine, Israel

Iran's regime in a predicament of its own making

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-11-19T12:11:21Z

One of the most famous sayings about revolutions is attributed to Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794): “Those who make revolution halfway only dig their own graves.” This saying also applies to armed conflicts ...

- Features / United States (USA), Israel, Iran, Features