International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Power and urgency in the ecological crisis

Júlia Martí, Martín Lallana — 2026-05-20T11:43:12Z

The urgency of the global crisis of capitalism, particularly because of the ecological crisis, is undeniable. Answering this question requires a clear vision of the question of power and the transition to another society.

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Strategy

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

War Ecology

R.S. — 2026-04-21T09:30:49Z

The Palestinian Olive Council estimates that approximately one million olive trees have been destroyed in Gaza.The World Bank estimates that the war on Lebanon generated approximately 22 million tonnes of waste.

- Features / Palestine, Ecology and the Environment, Lebanon

The ravages of agribusiness in Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-04-18T07:28:45Z

The results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

Macron relaunches nuclear weapons

Dominique Boury — 2026-04-09T06:12:30Z

By announcing an “advanced deterrence” and a strengthening of the nuclear arsenal, French president Emannuel Macron is reviving the logic of an arms race and turning his back on disarmament policies. On 2 March, at the Île Longue operational base, in front of the last nuclear submarine, the Téméraire, Macron announced a decisive turning point in the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France, Ecology and the Environment, Nuclear power

Environment: Cost of fuel, what ecosocialist responses?

NPA-A Environment commission — 2026-04-05T05:16:25Z

The war is fuelling the profits of fossil fuel companies while aggravating the ecological and social crisis. Faced with exploding prices and organized dependence on all oil, it is urgent to impose immediate measures while breaking with fossil capitalism.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment

Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil

Women of Centelhas — 2026-04-01T12:20:09Z

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America.

- Feminism / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Features

The EU and green colonialism in Serbia

Denis Verstraeten — 2026-01-28T11:44:33Z

Environmental struggles and protests against the destruction of the natural environment are common in the Balkans, and Serbia is no exception. The most recent and symbolic of these is the protest against the installation of lithium mines in the west of the country. During our trip, we met with an activist from the anti-extractivist collective Marš Sa Drine in a hotel in downtown Belgrade, away from the prying ears of the Vučić regime.

- Serbia dossier January 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Serbia

COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — 2025-12-06T18:11:50Z

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Climate

TotalEnergies must face up to its responsibilities in Mozambique

Paul Martial — 2025-12-04T21:51:30Z

A complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique has just been lodged with the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT), following the ‘container massacre'.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Mozambique