International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Aid Ukraine: Build the Convoy

Fred Leplat, Liz Lawrence — 2026-08-27T17:00:54Z

Ukrainians are facing a fifth winter in wartime conditions. Solidarity is needed as much as ever

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Russia, Ukraine

What Jason Arday's death says about our society

Simon Hannah — 2026-08-26T09:32:21Z

Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Britain, Racism and Islamophobia

The Looming Election

Against the Current Editors — 2026-08-25T10:47:13Z

MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA)

How the 1976 uprisings led to the people's education movement of the mid-1980s in Soweto

Terri Maggott — 2026-08-24T15:11:19Z

Fifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Youth and student movements, South Africa

Three months of mass protests in Albania

Gerhard Klaas — 2026-08-23T08:42:28Z

Since the end of May, day after day, Albanians have been protesting in Tirana against a luxury tourist complex that US president Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plan to build with an Albanian investor. At first, there were only a few hundred demonstrators, but it has now become a mass movement.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Albania

Washington's Seizure of Venezuelan Oil: Where Have the Oil Revenues Gone Since 3 January 2026?

Éric Toussaint — 2026-08-22T07:49:34Z

On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military operation against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and detention of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their transfer to the United States. During this attack, carried out using 150 aircraft, around a hundred people lost their lives, including 32 Cubans who had attempted to protect the country's presidential palace; the remaining victims were Venezuelans. A few hours after this intervention, Donald Trump announced that Washington now claimed to be temporarily in control of Venezuela and would exploit its oil resources.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA), Economy, Venezuela

How to Defeat Milei: The Left's Strategy in a Reactionary Period

Martín Mosquera — 2026-08-21T05:54:32Z

Globally, the left faces a strategic debate on how to respond to the current reactionary surge. The answer depends on how we characterise the period, what we understand by the extreme right, and what kind of political unity we deem necessary to confront it. In Argentina, the discussion is gaining prominence given the gradual decline of Milei's government. Before examining the Argentine case, however, it is worthwhile considering the global scale of the phenomenon.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Argentina

Rampage of the Surveillance State: What's Behind the Minneapolis Indictments?

Randy Furst — 2026-08-20T08:51:26Z

FOR TWO MONTHS last winter, 4000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unleashed an assault on the Twin Cities with a violent roundup of immigrants, prompting a mass, nonviolent grassroots resistance movement that eventually involved hundreds of thousands of protesters. The Trump administration was forced to retreat.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA), Migration

The Bund: A Committed History

Peter Drucker — 2026-08-19T07:56:39Z

The rave reception for Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple's avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is on the New York Times bestseller list.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Historical events and figures

Who is responsible for xenophobia in South Africa?

Paul Martial — 2026-08-19T07:27:51Z

If the outpouring of hatred against foreign nationals in South Africa is part of a catastrophic social context, it is also encouraged by crooked politicians. On 30 June 2026, 300 demonstrations were organized across South Africa to demand the departure of migrants.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / South Africa, Racism and Islamophobia