International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Build solidarity with the people of Venezuela - Reject US imperialist aggression

ZASO — 2026-01-04T20:01:25Z

“As we enter the most flagrant era of US imperialist aggression in decades, whatever our differences, progressive forces, especially socialists, must stand together. We must defend the countries of Latin America from US aggression, with all the resources at our disposal. This is an existential fight for survival – not just for Venezuelans, but for all of us.”

- Venezuela 2026 / Venezuela, South Africa

GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?

Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla! — 2025-10-18T10:11:25Z

Amandla! interviewed Bridgette Nkomana about gender based violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA+ community.

- Sexual politics / South Africa, LGBT

Tackling GBV in the rural areas

Amandla!, Denia Jansen — 2025-10-18T10:10:50Z

Amandla! interviewed Denia Jansen, Co-ordinator of the gender based violence (GBV) programme for the Rural Women's Assembly (RWA)

- Feminism / Women, South Africa

If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

Fani Ncapayi, Mercia Andrews — 2025-08-29T14:08:50Z

South Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa's Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories

Siyabulela Mama — 2025-08-25T08:51:11Z

The closure of Goodyear in Kariega (formerly called Uitenhage) is more than just another company shutting its doors. It is a brutal reminder of the structural crisis facing South Africa's working class. Factories, once held as pillars of stability, are now abandoned shells, as corporations chase profits across borders, discarding workers like disposable tools.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa

Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises

Thandiwe Tess Tshaka — 2025-08-11T14:07:59Z

The recent findings by the Auditor-General confirming the Free State as the worst-performing province in South Africa are not just shocking, they are a painful reminder of how deeply broken our systems of governance and service delivery have become. For many residents, especially those in Botshabelo, this is not news. This is daily life.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa

South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

Collective — 2025-05-28T06:38:08Z

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump's sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who's seeking to extort favorable concessions for his Starlink operation in South Africa.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, South Africa

Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists

Patrick Bond — 2025-05-07T20:48:20Z

The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist', withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations negotiations, and should now be sanctioned. But annual UN COPs (Conferences of the Parties) won't, because the ‘climate action' approach is dominated by the West and BRICS. They continue to deny the world long-overdue ‘climate justice' and they won't punish Trump's climate crimes.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa

The state of Africa in the new world order

Will Shoki — 2025-04-10T08:39:23Z

Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once commanded legitimacy as national liberators are losing their grip; yet the opposition remains fragmented, offering little in the way of alternative governance.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Africa, China, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Mozambique, Botswana

Government policies to blame for SAs' chronic mass unemployment

Dominic Brown — 2024-11-22T15:23:00Z

The level of unemployment in South Africa is second to no other country in the world. Everyone recognises that it's a problem, with various polls suggesting that it's the main concern for people in the country. The problem is so bad that it is described by some as a virus. The symptoms are the widespread desperation of the majority of people in the country and deepening social tensions.

- IV598 - November 2024 / South Africa