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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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USA
Israel-Palestine Conflict Gives Birth to a New U.S. Anti-War Movement
23 October, by Dan La Botz“The new anti-war movement is fighting against powerful, pro-war propaganda from the United States, Israel, and much of the media.”
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Sweden
Far-right has created a climate of racism, Islamophobia and fear
22 October, by Farooq Sulehria, Hakan Blomqvist“Sweden has been making global headlines owing to a litany of Quran burnings earlier this year. Angry protesters in Baghdad burnt and ransacked the Swedish embassy in July while Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, agitation was recorded against the burnings of the Quran in Sweden.”
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Debt crisis
Under the yoke of the IMF
21 October, by Éric ToussaintRegarding the new debt crisis and the results of the Counter-summit in Marrakesh, in face of the World Bank and the IMF, CADTM translated an article from Le Courrier, a Swiss daily based in Geneva, in the issue published on Tuesday 17 October 2023. The article and the interview that follows were written by the journalist Bénito Perez.
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Middle East
Gaza: between a second chapter of the Nakba and the revival of the Oslo fiction
20 October, by Gilbert AchcarThere are forecasts that one hopes will be belied by reality. What we forecasted on these pages a week ago (“The ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ Threatens to Sweep Gaza Away”, Al-Quds al-Arabi, 10 Oct. 2023) on the fourth day of the new Gaza war, is one such instance. Here is what we foresaw:
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Antilles
Chlordecone: the fight against colonial crime takes on a new dimension
19 October, by Patrick Le Moal“The poisoning of the people of the Antilles is no longer in dispute: in 2021, the French government has finally recognized the prostate cancers of people who have worked for at least ten years in contact with chlordecone as an occupational disease, allowing them to be compensated.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Corsica
The struggle for national liberation is linked to the struggle for social liberation
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LGBT rights in Japan
Homophobia that has exposed more than 300 people to sexual violence for decades
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USA
Israel-Palestine War Roils U.S. Politics Top to Bottom
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Poland
At stake in the Polish elections: preserving democracy
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India
The domestic and geopolitical challenges in India - an overview
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War in Ukraine
Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception
16 July, by Fred Leplatread article...“Anti-capitalists and internationalists support unconditionally the people of Ukraine in their armed resistance to liberate their country from the Russian genocidal invasion. But the support for Ukraine is not necessarily uncritical.”
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Ukraine and Europe
Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left
22 December 2022, by Catherine Samaryread article...This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.
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War in Ukraine
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcarread article...“The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”
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War in Ukraine
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital
16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewskiread article...“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”
Palestine/Israel
Western Complicity in Apartheid Israel’s Brutal Violence Heightens Palestinian Resistance & International Solidarity
October 2023
“Since oppression is the root cause of violence, to end all violence — the initial and ongoing violence of the oppressor and the reactive resistance of the oppressed — we must act to end oppression.”
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Gaza offensive: we are all Palestinians!
October 2023
“In fact, the war against the Palestinians has been going on for 75 years, and the left should remember the need for solidarity with resistance struggles against oppression and occupation.”
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Solidarity faced with the murder of three doctors close to the PSOL in Brazil
Statement by the NPA
October 2023
“We offer our full solidarity to the comrades of the PSOL, of the MES in particular, and to Sâmia Bomfim.”
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Solidarity call for Can Atalay!
September 2023
“Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged ‘Gezi Park Trials’ after being unjustly convicted of ‘attempting to overthrow the government’.”
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Protest rally of Huqooq e Khalq Party breached police barriers to reach Governor House
Huge Protest outside Governor House against rising electricity price and inflation
August 2023
“Protesters of Haqooq e Khalq party were chanting slogans against IMF and the ruling coalition.”
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