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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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Sudan
Sudan: Towards peace for warlords?
15 January, by Paul MartialTurkey’s mediation in the Sudanese conflict could help peace but would marginalize revolutionary forces.
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Syria
Syria: "The West is sacrificing dozens of peoples and faiths"
14 January, by Fabienne Dolet, Berivan FiratThe new government in Syria has received European ministers and seems to have won the goodwill of Western states. The situation of the Kurds who are fighting for their rights remains complicated. Berivan Firat of the CDKF (Kurdish Democratic Council in France) gives his point of view. This interview was conducted b by Fabienne Dolet, on January 4, 2025
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Environment
Mayotte: The essential solidarity and the necessary anti-colonial policy
13 January, by Idriss Mohamed, Valentin PantinCyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte on December 14, 2024. This island in the Comoros archipelago was established as the 101st French department on March 31, 2001.
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Environment
Los Angeles is burning and global warming is responsible
12 January, by Dan La BotzA 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.
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USA
Looking back at the American election: the oligarchic consensus and its contradictions
11 January, by Thierry LabicaIt 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.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Geopolitics
Trump’s Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China
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Middle East
The Palestinian Authority and the Completion of the Siege
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Syria
The Threats ahead of a Democratic and Progressive Syria
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France
The vile beast is not dead!
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Germany
Is Wagenknecht’s nationalism the left’s new compass?
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
Lennart Wallster 1944-2024
15 January, by Håkan Blomqvistread article...Lennart Wallster […] was strongly associated with SP’s very first days in the late 1960’s and the commitment to building the political and organizational center of the Fourth International.
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Fourth International
Why do socialists organise internationally?
31 December 2024, by Dave Kellawayread article...What are the arguments for eco socialists to be part of a revolutionary international?
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Marxism
The strategy of transitional demands
31 December 2024, by Ernest Mandelread article...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.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s blanket of repression
29 December 2024, by Mike Phippsread article...”The Ortega-Murillo regime has betrayed the legacy of the Sandinista Revolution and makes a US-led neoliberal takeover more feasible.”
France
Put an end to Macron and the Fifth Republic!
Statement by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA-l’Anticapitaliste)
December 2024
After the vote of no confidence, let’s finish with Macron and the 5th Republic!
The result was clear: 331 votes in favour of the no confidence motion. The Barnier government resigned and the austerity budget law fell. This illegitimate government, a symbol of Macron’s decomposition of the Macron presidency, had no future. The promise of ever more austerity and authoritarianism has been rejected by the vast majority of the population.
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Ukrainian care workers’ union growth shows strength, resilience during war
November 2024
In the heart of a war-torn nation, Ukraine’s care workers are showing extraordinary resilience and unity in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Through their union Be Like Nina (BLN), these healthcare heroes are organizing under challenging circumstances not just to protect their livelihoods and improve their jobs but also to strengthen a healthcare system stretched to its limits.
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Standing in solidarity with the PepsiCo workers’ strike in Brazil!
November 2024
“Brazilian civil society, social movements and trade unions are campaigning in solidarity with the PepsiCo strike.”
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Publishing a new collection of writings by Daniel Bensaïd
October 2024
New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France’s most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention.
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The Summer ‘Uni’, a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation
September 2024
The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism’ with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.
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