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International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.
 

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Current Issue: IV413 - June 2009 - Full contents here

Latest Articles...

Denmark
Danish agreements should protect all
Upon the arrival in Copenhagen of the morning’s ship from Poland Søren Søndergaard, an MEP and a leader of the People’s Movement against the European Union, demanded that the parliament and government should ensure that foreign labour is not subjected to unacceptable and highly dangerous working conditions. - read article...
Iran
Statement by the executive bureau of the Fourth International
Since June 13th, after the faked presidential election, millions of Iranian are expressing their anger with cries of “down with the dictatorship”. Their mobilization increases the crisis of the regime. Ferocious repression has already caused hundreds of dead and wounded. Our place is at the side of the Iranian people! - read article...
For some time now in Slovenia skinheads have been attacking immigrant workers. This has caused indignation and provoked a reaction from radical youth and the Slovenian left. - read article...
Europe
Discussion with François Sabado
We are not yet at the stage of building a European anti-capitalist party, far from it, the organizations each have their place, their history, their activity, but we are moving towards an anti-capitalist pole on a European scale, which has its particular profile, takes its own initiatives, has its own exchanges of views. - read article...
Review
THE ISSUE OF same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement(1) have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided. - read article...

...and the rest of the current issue

Dossier on Sri Lanka - The agony and the ecstasy
Dossier on Sri Lanka - Letters to a Tamil Sama Samajist
 

Recently posted Debate

“Workers – men and women – of the world, unite under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!” - read article...
In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica. - read article...
Discussion in the International Socialist Group
When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today. - read article...
 

Recently posted Theory

Sex seems to play a key role in the Dutch politics of belonging. Sex – especially homosexuality – is instrumentalized by the nationalist right who uses it to represent immigrants as ‘strangers’ who threaten tolerant, modern, Dutch society. Tolerance, power, and xenophobia come to be increasingly entwined in the Netherlands. A plea against ‘tolerance’ as the foundation for political and social struggle. - read article...
The ’crisis of the working class subject’
The crisis of working class representation is a familiar theme in the left internationally, the idea that because of the shift to the right of mass social democratic and Stalinist parties, or because of their collapse, the working class lacks a political force that can defend its interests in the national political domain. - read article...
How is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements? - read article...
 

Recently posted Documents

The January 2009 meeting of the International Committee of the FI adopted this draft as a basis for a resolution to the next World Congress. - read article...
Adopted by the International Secretariat of the Fourth International
The Fourth International must show that for the Jews as for all other peoples of the earth, the defense or the final winning of their own nationality cannot be achieved by building “closed” states and economies, but that a planned world socialist economy is the only realistic framework within which the free and normal development of a people is possible today. - read article...
Its Character, Present State, and Perspectives
The resolution printed below has been issued in the name of organisations affiliated to the Fourth International. It represents in its broad outlines the positions of revolutionary communists (Trotskyists) on the Arab region. - read article...

News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements

Honduras
Respect, Green and Labour left’s joint statement
June 2009
We totally condemn the military coup and kidnapping of the democratically elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. - read article...
May 2009
At a rally in Oporto, Portugal on 8th May, Miguel Portas, Alda Sousa, Francisco Louça and Olivier Besancenot presented the common proposals of the Left Bloc (Bloco do Esquerda, BE) and the New Anti-capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anti-capitaliste, NPA) against the crisis and European Union policies. “The capitalists must pay for the crisis” is one of the themes common to the two campaigns. - read article...
European elections
April 2009
Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson of the New Anti-capitalist Party in France will participate in a series of public meetings elsewhere in Europe organised by signatories of the Strasborg anti-capitalist left conference. - read article...
Veteran Vietnamese Trotskyist dies
April 2009
Our dear Vietnamese comrade Hoang Khoa Khoi has just died at the age of 92, on Thursday April 9. His family and friends gathered a week later in front of the crematorium of Père-Lachaise to pay him a last tribute. - read article...
A slander on our movement
April 2009
Lichi D’Amelio of the Unites States International Socialist Organization responds to the charge, made by the US Socialist Workers Party, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. - read article...
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