International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

• Pakistan

  State Neglect and Corporate-Driven Development Deepen Rural Devastation: Punjab faces unprecedented flood challenge

  8 September, by Farooq Tariq, Qammar Abbas

  Two million people have been impacted, 2200 villages and millions of acre of agri land are under water. Unprecedented Flood water now moving toward Sindh endangering lives of millions.

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• Palestine

  Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity

  7 September, by Édouard Soulier

  Two years after the genocide in Gaza began, the population is suffering from relentless bombing, organized starvation and attacks on journalists and relief workers. Israeli propaganda, relayed by its allies, no longer masks the colonial and genocidal character of its policies, while Palestinian and international resistance continues.

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• Turkey/Kurdistan

  Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

  6 September, by Uraz Aydin

  On the occasion of the agreement on the dissolution of the PKK, Uraz Aydin presents the history of this movement and the evolution of the protest against the Erdoğan regime.

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• Palestine solidarity

  What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?

  5 September, by Marco Bertorello

  The large mobilization for the Global Sumud Flotilla is a barometer of the social climate. And it tells us that there is still room for humanity.

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• Economy and Ecology

  Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

  4 September, by Phil Hearse

  What does the crisis in the coffee industry tell us about global warming? The links between climate, economy and the precarity of workers.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Denmark/Ukraine

  Return from Ukraine

• Canada

  More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

• USA

  Trump Fires Top Officials, Seizes Control of American Cities

• Indonesia

  Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians’ Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims

• Ukraine

  Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

Recently posted Features

• Fourth International

  The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

  3 September, by Ernest Mandel

  The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.

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• Asia

  Labour’s Polycrisis

  20 August, by Kevin Lin

  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.

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• Ecology

  The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky

  20 August, by Daniel Tanuro

  For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...

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• Fourth International

  Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

  20 August, by Alex de Jong

  The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo’ Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case’ led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

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