International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The Reasons for the US-Israeli Aggression against Iran

Sarah Selami — 2026-05-20T14:01:54Z

“It is important to remember that the Islamic Republic of Iran — and more broadly the Iranian capitalism it administers — is not a simple passive victim of this warlike configuration. It is a fully-fledged player, committed to its own logic of power, internal consolidation and regional influence.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Israel, Iran

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

Learning & Advancing from Setbacks

Against the Current Editors — 2026-05-20T07:13:31Z

“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

The Self-Emancipation of Workers and the Oppressed: Lessons from the German and Spanish Revolutions

Uraz Aydin — 2026-05-20T07:13:13Z

“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves'. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”

- Features / Marxism, Turkey, Kurdistan

Leftist studies in China and the United States

Paul Le Blanc, Shi Yongqin — 2026-05-20T07:12:40Z

“Shi's experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”

- Features / United States (USA), China, Trotsky

Relaunching the Battle of Ideas on the Italian Left

Salvatore Cannavò, Stéfanie Prezioso — 2026-05-20T07:12:26Z

Italy's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)

- Features / Italy, Marxism

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

Resist creeping fascism - Help publish this book !

Resistance Books — 2026-05-18T15:18:22Z

The New Fascist International, by Ugo Palheta. We need £2,000 to finance the translation

- News from around the world / Fascism

Labor Beyond Borders

Dianne Feeley — 2026-05-18T09:05:13Z

“When Shawn Fain [president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)] supported Trump's auto tariffs, he made the mistake of thinking that a narcissistic businessman could develop a policy in workers' interests. For Trump, tariffs are a weapon used to bludgeon workers in other countries.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

BRICS media are not an alternative for anti-imperial resistance

Farooq Sulehria — 2026-05-17T13:31:37Z

Farooq Sulehria is a member of CADTM-Pakistan. He was in Brazil to attend the First Anti-Fascist Conference in Porto Alegre (March 26-29, 2026). He is the author of the recently published Media Subimperialisms and the Rise of the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan).

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Brazil, South Korea, China, India