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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Brazil
Lula’s return: two years of PT rule
20 January, by Israel Dutra, NPA - Nouveau Parti AnticapitalisteNearly two years after Lula’s return to power as President of Brazil, Israel Dutra, a member of the leadership of MES (Socialist Left Movement) and PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) of Brazil, provides us with an overview of the social and political situation in an interview with the NPA-Anticapitaliste Latin American Commission.
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USA
Trump will bring radical change to America: How will the country react?
19 January, by Dan La BotzDonald J. Trump’s returns to the White House on January 20 promising to bring radical and fundamental change to every aspect of the American economy, society, and politics. His election is an expression of the exhaustion of the liberal (and neoliberal) order and the initiation of a new regime and a new system in the United States. His promises and plans threaten not only the world order, such as that is, but the planet itself.
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Austria
Government of the far right on the horizon
18 January, by Austrian correspondents“The aim of further tightening xenophobic and anti-minority measures is to divert discontent onto supposed scapegoats (refugees, migrants, the unemployed, welfare recipients, LGBTIQ+ people or even socially critical artists).”
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Middle East
A ceasefire won’t stop Israel’s genocidal agenda
17 January, by Tariq Kenney-ShawaThe agreement may reduce the intensity of Israel’s killing spree, but it is likely to usher in a grueling new phase of ethnic cleansing with Trump’s full support.
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Lebanon
After five days that changed its face, where is Lebanon headed?
16 January, by Gilbert AchcarThe events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and the appointment of a new prime minister on Monday 13, constitute a major upheaval in the country’s political situation. The fact is that these events are themselves primarily the result of a major upheaval in the actual balance of power that determines Lebanon’s political situation. This is because, in key stages of the country’s history since its independence in 1943, the Lebanese government was subject to an agreement between two rival external powers, and whenever this agreement and the equilibrium accompanying it were disturbed, the situation has become tense to the point of explosion when the tension reached its peak.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Sudan
Sudan: Towards peace for warlords?
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Syria
Syria: "The West is sacrificing dozens of peoples and faiths"
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Environment
Mayotte: The essential solidarity and the necessary anti-colonial policy
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Environment
Los Angeles is burning and global warming is responsible
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USA
Looking back at the American election: the oligarchic consensus and its contradictions
Recently posted Features
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Environment
Environmental and climate debt: Who is responsible?
18 January, by Maxime Perriot, Éric Toussaintread article...The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized. That recognition must take the form of cancellation of the debt of the countries of the Global South and paying of reparations by the States of the North. The latter must compel the wealthiest interests to contribute and assume responsibility for climate disruption and for taking the actions that are urgently needed to limit its consequences and its aggravation to the maximum extent possible.
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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.
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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