International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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 failure makes him more dangerous than ever

Daniel Tanuro — 2026-04-12T07:17:24Z

Has Trump's downfall begun? Or are we, on the contrary, on the eve of his leap into total dictatorship? It is too early to predict the outcome. But one thing seems certain: by unleashing his war against Iran with Netanyahu, by underestimating the adversary, by spitting on his imperialist and other allies with contempt (the crown prince of Saudi Arabia “didn't think he'd be kissing my ass”), the would-be dictator has put himself in an extremely difficult situation, from which it is difficult to see how he can emerge without suffering a more or less humiliating defeat... Unless he “unleashes hell”, as he says... against the Iranian people he claimed to be liberating... and against popular mobilizations in the United States.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

Round Up on the 3rd No Kings Day

Against the Current Editors — 2026-04-10T06:18:34Z

Eight million people took to the streets across the United States on 28 March, marching, rallying and picketing in over 3,300 sites. They came out to support their neighbors and coworkers who are threatened by masked and armed men. They opposed the authoritarianism of the Trump team with humor in their signs and costumes, but at the same time they can joke, they are willing to stand firm.

- 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)

Non-natalism

Leslie Root — 2026-03-27T13:51:44Z

Pronatalism—the ideology that birth rates are too low and must be raised by implementing policies that get people to have children—has been having a cultural moment in the United States.

- Feminism / United States (USA), Women, Features

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)

Collateral Damage Comes Home: Lebanon, Palestine, Iran to Michigan

David Finkel — 2026-03-21T20:14:31Z

The already unbearable horrors engulfing the peoples of the Middle East exploded into U.S. domestic news on March 12 with the attack in suburban Detroit at Temple Israel, the country's largest Reform Jewish congregation.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)

The American People and the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

Dan La Botz — 2026-03-16T07:52:01Z

As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran goes into its third week, the people of the United States are still figuring out what they think about the conflict. Since the war began, most polls show a majority of Americans disapprove of the war, something unseen in modern American history. A majority of Americans approved of World War II, the Korean War, and initially of the Vietnam War. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2000—the American government, anxious for revenge—was backed by huge majorities when it made war on Afghanistan in 2001. When in 2003 the George W. Bush administration wanted to make war on Iraq, it fabricated false evidence that Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction, and, bamboozled by Bush, nearly three-quarters of the American people supported the war.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)

From Michigan to Argentina: Nurses' Struggles and International Solidarity

Collective — 2026-03-14T17:43:16Z

“It's the workers of the hospital that know best how to run it. Of course, there are different ideas but we have the experience of working together. That's where the health team comes together to figure out how best to care for the patient and involve the family in a discussion.”

- Feminism / United States (USA), Women, Argentina, Public services