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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Nepal
The crisis in Nepal: climate crisis capitalism and the political economy of the Himalayas
30 August, byOn 26th August part of a glacier and the stone layers beneath it on the northern slope of Langtang Lirung in the Nepal-Tibet border [Tibet is today an “autonomous region” of China] collapsed. The ice and rock avalanche falling down from this nearly 7200 metre mountain was so powerful that its impact created a seismic signal equivalent to a 5.2 Richter scale earthquake. The debris flow then traversed nearly 100 kilometres via Lende Khola river to the Bhote Koshi- Trishuli river system. Villages have been destroyed, the principal road connecting Nepal with China has been isolated, and at least 6 hydel power centres have been damaged according to the news received till now over 500 deaths have been reported from Nepal and Tibet and nearly 2000 people are still untraced.
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Iran
Our Support for the Open Letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
28 August, by“As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter to “Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’”, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.”
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Ukraine solidarity
Aid Ukraine: Build the Convoy
27 August, by ,Ukrainians are facing a fifth winter in wartime conditions. Solidarity is needed as much as ever
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Britain
What Jason Arday’s death says about our society
26 August, byJason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.
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USA
The Looming Election
25 August, byMIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.
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Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Marxist strategy in Western Europe
17 August, by ,read article...Gramsci is often considered as the main Marxist thinker to have paid particular attention to the specificities of the revolution in the West. His thinking on this question is indeed indispensable to any consideration of strategy, but it cannot be separated from the discussions initiated by Lenin and Trotsky in the Communist International (Comintern) of the 1920s.
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Class
Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
17 August, byread article...It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past — dissolved by deindustrialisation, scattered by fragmented labour markets, eclipsed by identity-based movements, and exhausted along with the institutions that once gave it political form. From this vantage point, class appears to have lost its centrality, surviving at best as a residual category of analysis.
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Fascism
Modern counter-revolution and fascism
17 August, byread article...We know the first words of the Communist Manifesto: “A spectre is haunting Europe”. Today, two “spectres” with a material reality seem to haunt the capitalist world and weigh on the destinies of humanity: Donald Trump and artificial intelligence (AI). How do they fit together? What world are they likely to lead us to?
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Anti-fascism and Anti-Imperialism
For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front
4 August, byread article...Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.
