International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Draft laws play hide-and-seek in Madagascar

Paul Martial — 2025-06-30T06:25:00Z

In Madagascar, parliamentary bills are kept secret until they are passed. Neither citizens nor MPs can debate texts that are sometimes crucial to the life of the country. In the face of this authoritarian closure, civil society organizations are denouncing an anti-democratic drift orchestrated by Rajoelina's government.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Madagascar

Can Democratic Socialist Mamdani become Mayor of New York?

Dan La Botz — 2025-06-29T05:48:48Z

“Mamdani's campaign, platform, and victory point a possible new direction for the Democrats and for the left. But it will be hard to beat the billionaires.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)

Overfishing is plundering waters in Africa

Paul Martial — 2025-06-28T06:44:17Z

“In Senegal, in just five years, the number of sardinella has fallen by 80%. This small, very inexpensive pelagic fish is at the heart of the popular diet and is used in the composition of the national dish: thieboudien.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa, Senegal

Enhedslisten: Support for more defence - but which defence?

John Jessen — 2025-06-27T04:46:11Z

“The new defence and security policy adopted at the annual meeting does not indicate that initiatives to organize protests against military armament will come from this direction - at least not from the party leadership. Time will tell if others take up the task.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Denmark

A mixed success for the President in Mexico

Fabrice Thomas — 2025-06-26T04:41:53Z

On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Mexico

State of the Resistance

Against the Current Editors — 2025-06-25T09:23:43Z

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That's been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we're barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)

Cristina Kirchner condemned and banned from election

M. N. — 2025-06-24T09:51:25Z

The Argentine political field is (again) in turmoil. A few months before the mid-term legislative elections, and only a few days after the announcement of her candidacy as a regional deputy, the Supreme Court has just confirmed former president Cristina Kirchner's conviction for corruption: 6 years in prison and lifetime ineligibility.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Argentina

The United States at War in the Middle East —Again

Dan La Botz — 2025-06-23T10:24:42Z

The United States has joined Israel in its war on Iran, increasing the chances for a wider regional war, one that could become a forever-war quagmire as the Iraq War did. President Donald Trump sent B-2 bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz while a submarine launched Tomahawk missiles at another facility in Istfahan.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA), Israel, Iran

Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide

Gin Vola, Elias Vola — 2025-06-22T08:27:14Z

Already in bad shape after 22 years of Putin's repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Russia, Ukraine, Fascism

Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2025-06-21T05:06:33Z

The leader of Anticapitalistas believes that the police plot that sought to implicate him in the alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine in 2016 was intended to attack Podemos "at a key moment in the politics of change" and announced, in an interview with elDiario.es, his willingness to take that conspiracy to the courts.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Spanish state