Benjamin B analyses The imperialism of our time while Amir Kianpour & Morteza Samanpour deliver “Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique”. Swiss activists advocate a “Feminist strike for the socialisation of reproductive labour!”. Diogo Machado and Alexandre Abreu analyse “After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration”. Eric Toussaint presents “An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism”.
International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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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South Africa
The 1976 Uprising and its enduring significance
1 August, by“The youth of 1976 understood that freedom is indivisible. They risked everything, not for statues or hollow commemorations, but for a world in which human beings are no longer reduced to commodities, ethnic labels or disposable labour. Their legacy demands nothing less from us today: to see our struggles as linked, to reject the divisions that power imposes, and to build a genuine liberation for all.”
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Italy
The murderous state, presumed innocent
31 July, byThe death of Abderrahim Fakir in a working-class neighborhood of Bologna on Sunday, July 20, sparked outrage, leading thousands of people to demonstrate to demand “Truth and Justice”; this death is reminiscent of that of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020…
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Pakistan
Deaths in Pakistani controlled Kashmir
30 July, by ,Farooq Sulehria made this podcast for Struggle TV about events in Kashmir. International Viewpoint brings you the transcript. Farooq Tariq wrote on the same subject, his article follows. An appeal for solidarity has already been published “Jammu-Kashmir progressive organisations call for global solidarity”.
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India
The Cockroach Protests Are Reviving India’s Ailing Democracy
29 July, byIndia’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.
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USA
AOC for President? Will She Run? Could She Win?
28 July, by“An ally of Senator Bernie Sanders, whom she accompanied on his “Fighting Oligarchy” national tour, and of Zohran Mamdani, the DSA member who is now mayor of New York City, she has become the standard-bearer of progressives. So now everyone left of center asks: Will she run? Could she win?”
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Recently posted Features
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Economy
After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration
1 August, byread article...Crises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.
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Economic thought
An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism
1 August, by ,read article...We are reprinting an important text that Ernest Mandel wrote in late 1963 to contribute to the public debate that had begun in Cuba a few months earlier. The main participants in the debate were, on the one hand, Ernesto Che Guevara (Minister of Industry) and Luis Álvarez Rom (Minister of Finance) and, on the other, Alberto Mora (Minister of Foreign Trade) and Marcelo Fernández Font (President of the National Bank of Cuba).
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Campsim
Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique
1 August, by ,read article...Contemporary capitalism is shifting into a war conjuncture: as the world market fractures, rivalries among geo-economic powers intensify, often to the point of outright military confrontation, while militarization spills beyond the battlefield into political governance and everyday life. In this context, the historical necessity of renewing an internationalism becomes ever clearer, especially as local conditions are increasingly mediated by globalized processes and absorbed into the vortex of the global war regime.
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Feminism
Feminist strike for the socialisation of reproductive labour!
27 July, byread article...All over the world, austerity programmes are following one after another, amounting to a privatization of the sphere of social reproduction. This neoliberal phase of capitalism raises strategic questions for the feminist movement.
