International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

On the Middle East crisis and the Philippines.

IIRE Manila — 2026-03-19T16:43:21Z

The global order is currently grappling with a catastrophic escalation in the Middle East. Initiated without provocation by coordinated US-Israeli attacks on Iranian strategic targets on February 28, 2026, the conflict has rapidly evolved into a multi-front war.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Philippines

From Flood Fund Plunder to Environmental Plunder – On the Moral, Political, and Ecological Crises Shaping the Philippines

RPM-M — 2026-01-08T21:08:41Z

Some notes on the Philippine Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption movements

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Philippines

Women and girls fear for their safety in the Philippines, as earthquake aftershocks continue to rock Northern Cebu

Mary Therese L. Norbe — 2025-12-08T17:48:50Z

As the world spearheads 16 Days, an annual awareness campaign to prevent violence against women and girls that covers the period from November 25 to December 10, a new humanitarian analysis conducted by CARE in the Philippines reveals a stark reality. In Northern Cebu province of Philippines, thousands of women, girls, and boys are living and sleeping in the open. They have no walls, no lighting, and no sense of safety they once knew. “Living Without Fear” is CARE's focus during the 16 Days awareness campaign.

- Feminism / Philippines, Women, Solidarity after disasters

After Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi): Mourn and Rage for Accountability and demand for ecological transformation

Remo Camote — 2025-11-10T09:47:53Z

Filipinos in the country (and worldwide) are enraged by the devastation brought by the recent typhoon Tino, with the international name Kalmaegi (November 4, 2025).

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Philippines, Ecology and the Environment, Solidarity after disasters

Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines

Daniel Tanuro — 2025-10-31T12:53:59Z

Presentations of the Fourth International Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth at a discussion for scholars and leaders, activists of social movements and political organizations, co-organized by IIRE-Philippines and Partido Manggagawa. in September 2025 by Daniel Tanuro Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines” below and Maral Jefroudi “Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better”.

- Features / Philippines, Ecology and the Environment, Fourth International, Features, Ecosocialism

Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better

Maral Jefroudi — 2025-10-31T12:53:51Z

Presentations of the Fourth International Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth at a discussion for scholars and leaders, activists of social movements and political organizations, co-organized by IIRE-Philippines and Partido Manggagawa. in September 2025 by Maral Jefroudi “Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better” below and Daniel Tanuro Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines”.

- Features / Philippines, Ecology and the Environment, Fourth International, Features, Ecosocialism

Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia

Dominique B. — 2025-10-20T20:50:40Z

Since the 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka that ousted President Rajapaksa, South Asia has been swept by a wave of revolts that have toppled three governments and threaten most regimes.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kashmir, Nepal

Walden Bello looks back on Filipino and global struggles

Alex de Jong — 2025-08-20T12:13:01Z

In Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love, Walden Bello remembers a rich life as a scholar and activist, from agitating against U.S. support for Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming a leading critic of neoliberal globalization to joining the Philippine House of Representatives and running for vice-president.

- Reviews section / Philippines, Reviews, Historical events and figures

Labour's Polycrisis

Kevin Lin — 2025-08-20T12:11:28Z

A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don't have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.

- Features / Philippines, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Asia, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Hong Kong

Duterte in The Hague

Alex de Jong — 2025-04-04T07:10:00Z

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte gained international notoriety with his violent ‘war on drugs' – a campaign of violence targeting the country's poor that claimed thousands of lives. He is now in a cell in The Hague, awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court, but it remains to be seen what will happen in the Philippines.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Philippines