A catastrophic fire is sweeping through Los Angeles, destroying entire neighborhoods and global warming with its extreme weather, in this case extremely high wind velocity, is the principal cause. Since they began last Wednesday and as I write on January 12, the fire has swept over 37,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,400 homes, businesses, and schools,16 people have been killed and 13 people are missing, while 153,000 people have been forced to evacuate. Some communities look like they have been bombed. The city has declared a health emergency because of the dense and dangerous smoke.

It would be easy to analyse Trump's victory as the result of a slow and inevitable progression of ultra-reactionary and fascist ideas among American voters. We must also analyse Harris's defeat, which ultimately results from the fear of running a campaign in defence of workers.

When Donald Trump first offered to buy Greenland in 2019, he was widely ridiculed and nothing much came of it, apart from a canceled state visit to Denmark. Fast forward six years and Trump's renewed “bid” for the world's largest island is back on the table.

he Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority has decided to complement the onslaught launched by the Zionist armed forces in the West Bank in parallel with their invasion of the Gaza Strip...

Is the Egyptian coup model possible in Syria? Are the old regime and its remnants the main threat to Syria? Or is the main threat today that HTS and the regional and international forces supporting it are seeking to impose a new authoritarianism? In this extensive article, Joseph Daher answers these questions by first analysing the threat posed by the remnants of the old regime and then analysing HTS's policy to consolidate its power over the new Syria.

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former longtime leader of the French far-right Front National was announced on 7 January 2025. Spontaneous celebrations took place in several cities - for example in Paris, Place de la République.

Recent elections [November 2024] in three German Länder have revealed the rise of a new political movement, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance - BSW). The result of a split from the left-wing party Die Linke, the BSW claims to be countering the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) on the issue of migration policy. Does the BSW's orientation represent a left-wing alternative or the crumbling of a certain left?

“America's economic and military power mean that Trump may not only remake America but could also transform the world.”

What do the protests mean for the left in Georgia and internationally? Posle and Tempest talk to Georgian activists and scholars about Georgia's mass protests

Long the strongest left force in the country, the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines is facing attrition from repression and government promises of amnesty for those who surrender.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a celebrated writer, journalist and public intellectual known for his works on racism and the Black freedom struggle. Coates has been praised for his books and essays, including establishment publications. That would change after his 2023 visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories of Palestine, his first trip to the region.

“The role of International Viewpoint as the English language of the publication of the Fourth International is vital. English is, thanks to the imperialist past and present of English-speaking countries, a language that is widely read and spoken and used for international access in all continents.”

It is that time of year when we reflect on the key events of 2024. Unlike the mainstream mass media we are interested in examining what happened from the point of view of the current and historic interests of the working class. Our task is to deconstruct the ideology that focuses on the visually dramatic, political or cultural personalities or the trivial.

What are the arguments for eco socialists to be part of a revolutionary international?

We have particularly highlighted this aspect of the international dimension that every socialist strategy needs because it emerges unequivocally from the experiences and struggles of the European proletariat.

“There is now a space, with its contradictions and challenges, for Syrians to try to rebuild popular civil resistance from below and from alternative power structures. And that is already a great hope compared with the past.”

”The Ortega-Murillo regime has betrayed the legacy of the Sandinista Revolution and makes a US-led neoliberal takeover more feasible.”

“The new leader of the Ukrainian Social Movement introduces herself as a trade unionist and mother. Her son is fighting at the front. Her husband, a miner, died in a work accident. She points the finger at a regime that sends its workers to war but gives them no say in the running of the country. ”

The opposition Progressive Alliance defeated the outgoing government's Lepep coalition in the Mauritian elections held on 10 November 2024. The results are indisputable. With 62% of the vote, the opposition parties won almost all the seats in the assembly, in accordance with the “winner takes all” rule.

Will France have a government at Christmas? That was the question in September. We didn't think we'd reach the same point on Christmas Eve. With more weariness, however.