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.
“The history speaks the language of battles despite triumph or defeat. In this sense, Elton is the voice that echoes the common social aspirations for radical change.”
read article...“Ba is one of a number of public figures who condemned this tribute to a war criminal who collaborated with the fascist regime of Salazar. But as a Black activist he is the target of the sharpest vitriolic campaign.”
read article...“There is a clear correlation between the neoliberal onslaught that started in the 1980s and the rise of neofascism and religious fundamentalism.”
read article...Climate change and Republican policies combined in Texas last week to produce a disaster that left millions without power, without heat, and without water as temperatures fell below freezing and snow and ice covered the state, leaving at least 50 dead. The state’s rare severe cold is another example of the extreme weather in the form of floods and forest fires that climate change has brought to the United States.
read article...The success of 22 February shows that the resistance movement against military rule has grown even stronger.
read article...“Our next problem will be Biden and the Democrats’ neoliberalism, but Trump is still the issue for the moment.”
“Our response must be different. It must emerge from our understanding of how this racist, anti-worker, anti-poor capitalist death machine can actually be overcome. That will require organizing, not lobbying. ”
Decaying Institutions, Rightwing Insurrection, and the Need for a Mass Movement
“Humanity’s future also rests on the emergence and consolidation of a new and independent Black, Latinx and Native American leadership to champion the struggles of the most oppressed and exploited and establish democratic control of their communities while opening the way to the formation of independent Black and Brown parties in the political arena.”
Urgent update
“Dimitris Koufodinas life in danger, after 50 days of hunger strike in Greek jail”, The Press Project, 26 February 2021.
“We support the call of many organizations to maintain a permanent mobilization to ensure that the popular vote is respected.”
- read article...Just two days before Brazil’s National Day of Trans Visibility (29 January) an attack on a Black transvestite, intersex elected representative in São Paulo.
- read article...We stand in solidarity with the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger-strike since January 8, 2021, and whose health is now in critical condition.
We demand:
that he be transferred to Korydallos prison
a stop to all arbitrary legal and factual interventions against him
a stop to all discriminatory treatment against him
“The paralysis that has afflicted the political and social left in the face of Corona can thus be overcome to some extent if appropriately coordinated activities are developed on the ground. This is what we are working for.”
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