International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Trump, the Supreme Court, and State Legislatures Rig Future Elections

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-19T12:30:39Z

“Historically redistricting has been carried out in all states at the time of the decennial census to reflect changes in population, but now it is being done between censuses in a partisan manner to benefit one party.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Anti-foreigner sentiment is on the rise in South Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-05-16T04:18:23Z

Xenophobic riots are intensifying. They are fuelled by the economic and social crisis, but also by the actions of politicians.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / South Africa, Racism and Islamophobia

Supreme Court Guts 1965 Voting Rights Act

Malik Miah — 2026-05-09T15:05:35Z

“I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote,” she stated. “I dissent because the Court's decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Trump's recent racist rant against Somalia, Somalis and Somali Americans

Thomas Tews — 2026-04-24T08:21:34Z

During a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump made racist comments on people of Somali origin, calling them “low-IQ” and “bad people”.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Somalia, Racism and Islamophobia

The courts convict those who ordered the murder of Marielle Franco

Revista Movimiento — 2026-03-14T17:11:25Z

“This landmark ruling highlights the links between institutional politics, militias and economic interests in Rio de Janeiro.”

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Brazil, Women, Far Right, Racism and Islamophobia

Racial Injustice Inferno

Against the Current Editors — 2025-12-27T10:30:24Z

“Whether the Trump presidency is truly in crisis is too early to say. If its daily crimes against humanity are to bring about its downfall, it has to be organized and disciplined movement activism to push it over the cliff.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Trump's Reality for African Americans

Malik Miah — 2025-11-13T15:25:00Z

The Trump administration fired Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman librarian of Congress, by text message.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

“There is a strategic impasse on the left on the issue of race”

Mamadou Ba — 2025-11-05T10:30:09Z

“There must be a willingness not to instrumentalise struggles. The left has become accustomed to looking at the movement as an obstacle. The anti-racist movement is one of the essential devices that the left has to combat inequality. The anti-racist movement must not be an appendage, but a force.” Mamadou Ba, leader of SOS Racismo.

- Features / Portugal, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Racism and Islamophobia

Trump's Lisa D. Cook Firing: Use of Racism in Power Grab

Malik Miah — 2025-09-13T10:27:01Z

Trump's August 25 late night internet post firing Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, the country's central bank, came as a surprise. Why her?

- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Trump's Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC

Malik Miah — 2025-08-23T06:41:39Z

IN A LONG rant of over 70 minutes at an August 10 news conference, Trump claimed that the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia