Marc Bonhomme considers ”After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis”, Tempest investigates “Inside Die Linke ” and Alex De Jong explains how “Indonesia’s Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity”.
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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.
- 7 June – Parties of the left
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South Sudan
Peace under threat in South Sudan
10 June, by Paul MartialThere is a significant risk that South Sudan could once again plunge into widespread conflict, on top of a major financial crisis.
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USA
As Immigration Protests Grow, Trump Calls Out National Guard
9 June, by Dan La Botz“Suddenly, the resistance is real, in the streets, and fighting.”
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Yemen
The women’s uprising in Yemen
8 June, by Luiza ToscaneYemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.
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Italy
Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws
7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra AnticapitalistaItaly votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.
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Palestine
Pity the people of Gaza!
6 June, by Gilbert AchcarWhat we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement’s rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Belgium
Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police
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USA
Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder
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Panama
Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America
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USA
Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”
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Kurdistan
Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives
Recently posted Features
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Germany
Inside Die Linke
7 June, by Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer , Sean Larsonread article...After geopolitical upheaval and a snap election in February brought a new coalition to power, the political situation in Germany is rapidly changing. Even as the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, Germany’s left-wing party, Die Linke surged in the most recent election to over double its prior size. What are the implications?
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Quebec
After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis
7 June, by Marc Bonhommeread article...“The German Example Shows the Way to Reject Centralising Centrism.”
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Ukraine
‘No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin’
2 June, by Andriy Movchan, Victor Ospreyread article...“Movchan delves into the current state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the role of the far right in both countries, and the challenges Ukraine’s left forces face in building solidarity with their struggles internationally.”
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Ukraine
Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine
28 May, by Oleksandr Skibaread article...“The Ukrainian trade union movement is at a historic crossroads. To continue to operate with outdated models and methods is to embark on the road to insignificance and decline. Faced with the profound transformation of society and post-war reconstruction, the trade unions must choose: extinction or modernisation.”
USA
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
Statement by the Solidarity National Committee
June 2025
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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End the blockade of Gaza !
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International.
June 2025
“A massive worldwide mobilization to put an end to this genocide.”
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Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
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The Fourth International’s Youth Camp
May 2025
The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!
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Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor
May 2025
The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.
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