International Viewpoint
International Viewpoint
DSA's 2025 National Convention: A New Chapter Opens Up for the Socialist Movement
“The challenge for revolutionary Marxists is to build a Marxist center of DSA that can lead in the direction of principled mass work and national visibility of DSA in broader movements against Trump, in labor, and in social movements.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA)The “Day After” in Gaza
“Hypocritical cries of condemnation have risen, warning Netanyahu that this project will lead to massive displacement and a large number of deaths, as if the genocide and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist army over the past 22 months, and supported during several months by the same Western governments that are blaming Netanyahu today, were not already worse than what he is promising now.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, IsraelKryvyi Rih — Vermont — Paris!
A unique event took place at the Kryvyi Rih branch of the Social Movement NGO — we had the honour of welcoming special guests: Senator Tanya Vyhovsky from Vermont, USA, and Nico Dix, representative of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A). It was an inspiring meeting, filled with valuable experiences and sincere conversations!
- News from around the world / United States (USA), France, UkraineLabour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide
“Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, BritainFighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp
“The last bus awaits in the camp's parking lot. Young people, most of whom didn't know each other a week before, exchange phone numbers, social media, and hugs. Here and there, tears flow, as if to prolong the downpours that punctuated the week.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Youth camp, Belgium, Fourth InternationalFree State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises
The recent findings by the Auditor-General confirming the Free State as the worst-performing province in South Africa are not just shocking, they are a painful reminder of how deeply broken our systems of governance and service delivery have become. For many residents, especially those in Botshabelo, this is not news. This is daily life.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / South AfricaOne year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation
Over the past one year, the interim government has been part of a difficult chapter in the country's politics. They came to power amid political instability and economic crisis, but from a Marxist analysis, it is clear that this government does not represent the liberation of the working people; rather, it wields state power to protect the interests of the capitalists.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / BangladeshPalestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms
A letter signed by 52 academics and writers, including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, BritainBuilding grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers
Troublemakers at Work is a network of union activists who organise an annual conference and meetings about union organising, focussed on grassroots organising by lay union activists. It explores areas such as how to get started building a union in a workplace.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”
Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century
Enzo Traverso updates his analysis of post-fascism in light of the events of recent years. Reflecting on the rise of the new right and the global crisis of the left, he offers a diagnosis of contemporary challenges and the dangers facing emancipatory struggles in an increasingly complex world.
In a global context marked by the resurgence of far-right forces, historian Enzo Traverso offers in this interview an updated reflection on the concept of post-fascism, which he has been developing (…)
Neofascism, Imperialism, War, and Revolution in the Middle East
This interview was conducted online on March 30, 2025, by Rodrigo Utrera, a student of sociology at the University of Chile. (Email: rodrigo.utrera@ug.uchile.cl.) He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Actuel Marx Intervenciones in Chile. The interview was first published in Spanish in that journal (no. 35, August 2025), in an issue dedicated to examining war and its mutations in the twenty-first century.
- Features / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iran, FascismOur Genocide — Executive Summary
B'TSELEM IS THE long-established Israeli human rights information center. It is one of the two organizations in Israel (along with Physicians for Human Rights) that have now formally identified the Israeli state's war on Gaza as genocide. What follows is the Executive Summary of B'tselem's report titled “OUR GENOCIDE.” You can also read the full report.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, IsraelA warning from history: ‘This is what is going to happen to you'
Eighty years ago, the United States government exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the only two nuclear bombs ever used in wartime against a civilian population. Never before in human history had a single weapon caused such widespread death and destruction.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Japan, War drive/Anti-war movements, Nuclear powerGeorges has returned, Ziad has left us!
On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, son of the legendary couple Fairouz and Assi Rahbani, took his last breath in a hospital in the Hamra district of Beirut. The Lebanese – and Arab – left is moving from euphoria to tears.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / LebanonProtests follow arrest of union leaders in Panama
Workers and indigenous peoples are mobilizing against the neoliberal agenda of the government of president José Raúl Mulino in Panama. Antônio Neto, from the Brazilian magazine Movimento, interviewed José Cambra on 27 June 2025 about the reasons for the movement, the relationship with US imperialism and the elements of the program of rupture that has become a symbol of popular resistance against austerity and authoritarianism.
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, PanamaCorruption (Ukraine): a victory
“For our part, we will know, with the Ukrainian left and the social movement, to walk on both legs as we have done since the beginning of the large-scale war.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / UkrainePolski Strajk: first strike amongst temporary workers, mainly Polish migrant workers, in AH and Jumbo distribution centres
“Precarious and migrant workers constitute an important part of the working class, often difficult to organise. The success of this strike can give a boost to this work. It is therefore essential to organise solidarity to support and strengthen the strike.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Netherlands, Poland, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizingSuweida Under Fire: The Consolidation of Power in Damascus, and Sectarianism
“In this context, the recent events in Suweida demonstrate, once again, that Syria is not experiencing a democratic and inclusive political transition. Rather, it is a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime, structured and led by HTS, under the guise of institutional and international legitimacy.”
- IVP607 - August 2025 / Syria