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 America
Notes on the Political Situation in South America
28 May, by ,“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and tests in the class struggle posed by far-right and right-wing governments, such as those in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is worth considering the commonalities across national contexts in the region in the coming months.”
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Russia
The Kremlin’s Perfect Storm
27 May, byBy early May, Putin’s regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, and a visibly faltering state response to crises ranging from flooding in Dagestan to a foot-and-mouth outbreak in Siberia. At the same time, the Kremlin intensified mobile-internet blackouts and expanded efforts by the security services to tighten control over social media.
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Geopolitics
Iran’s shockwave in Asia
27 May, byBy dint of dragging on, the United States’ war against Iran seems to be becoming a real international tipping point whose scope varies according to the region. Its consequences are expected to be major in Asia. On the geopolitical terrain, of course, as illustrated by the Xi-Trump summit in Beijing on 14-15 May. But it will also aggravate the social crisis in many countries as well as boosting the global climate and ecological crisis. It is the beginning of multiple upheavals that will only be fully measured with hindsight.
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Greece
Let’s stop Orbanization in Greece!
26 May, byAs soon as he became prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis built parallel powers and, seven years later, he is swimming in scandals marking the privatization of the state for his own benefit and that of his relatives and the employers.
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USA/Cuba
Trump’s Justice Department Bring Charge Against Raul Castro—What’s next?
25 May, byPresident Donald Trump’s Justice Department on May 20, 2026 charged Raúl Castro with murder. Raúl, the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and established a Communist pro-Soviet state by 1961. The charges against him stem from February 1996 when a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue flew two planes toward Cuba but while still in international airspace were shot down by Cuban fighter planes, killing four people in the planes. Now the Trump government is holding Raúl Castro, who has served as head of the Communist Party and chief of state, responsible for those deaths.
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Recently posted Features
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Strategy
Power and urgency in the ecological crisis
20 May, by ,read article...The urgency of the global crisis of capitalism, particularly because of the ecological crisis, is undeniable. Answering this question requires a clear vision of the question of power and the transition to another society.
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USA
Learning & Advancing from Setbacks
20 May, byread article...“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”
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Strategy
The Self-Emancipation of Workers and the Oppressed: Lessons from the German and Spanish Revolutions
20 May, byread article...“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves’. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”
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China/US
Leftist studies in China and the United States
20 May, by ,read article...“Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”
