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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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Brazil
Local elections indicate a new moment in Brazil
26 November, by Bruno MagalhâesWhat’s at stake in upcoming 29 November municipal elections across Brazil?
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Ecosocialism
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
25 November, by Michael LöwyShould the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
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Thailand
Towards a test of strength
24 November, by Pierre RoussetThe government is threatening severe repression. The democracy movement is calling for increased mobilization. The first key date announced is 25 November.
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Peru
Hugo Blanco: “I was neither a ‘Castroite guerrilla’ nor a ‘terrorist’”
23 November, by Hugo BlancoInternational Viewpoint previously published a statement rebutting the attacks against Hugo Blanco, “Massive support for Hugo Blanco faced with ultra-right attacks”. Here he speaks in his own words.
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Spanish state:
Down with the king!
22 November, by Jaime Pastor , Miguel Urban Crespo“Reasons to believe that we will continue to advance until we can build a broad movement that makes the slogan “Down with the king!” a proposal for the future.”
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Hong Kong
The Scorched Earth Tactic and the Hong Kong Resistance
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Brazil
Bolsonaro defeated, the left remains alive
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United States:
Trump’s slow coup? The crisis of bourgeois democracy
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Puerto RIco
After 2019 Uprising, a new socialist formation and new political party, change the electoral game
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USA
Trump Lost the Election, But What is the Future of Trump and Trumpism?
Recently posted Debate
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USA presidential elections
Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can’t win the war
19 November, by Susan Pashkoffread article...“While Biden looks like he will pull out a squeaker of a win, the main goals of his campaign failed miserably.” This assessment of the US election was published on 6 November.
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Spanish state
Radiance and sunset of Podemos - reasons for a farewell
16 September, by Manuel Garíread article...The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have been “Radiance and decline of Podemos ... as an emancipatory political project.”
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Party building
Anticapitalist strategy and the question of organization
12 June, by Julia Camararead article...No matter how much time passes, or how often history is declared to have ended, the debate over socialist strategy and organization always returns. This foundational question appeared in embryo at the very start of the workers movement in the nineteenth century and was raised explicitly by Lenin when he described his perspective as “tactics as plan” and when revolutionaries split with social-democracy during World War I.
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Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards?
Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It.
4 May, by Gilbert Achcarread article...For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds and in conjunction with central banks to bail out entire sectors of the economy and prevent a general economic collapse. The ongoing rescue operations necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has already reached a much higher scale than the one deployed against the 2007–08 financial crisis. These operations clash with the basic tenets of neoliberalism in that they constitute a massive regulatory intervention by the state in reining back the market, whereas deregulation and market “survival of the fittest” are central to neoliberal ideology.
France
Solidarity with the Collective Against Islamophobia in France
Statement by NPA
November 2020
The NPA protests against the Macron government’s intention to dissolve the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
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Faced with the war escalation: with the Saharawi people, for their right of self-determination and the end of the occupation
Statement by Anticapitalistas
November 2020
The current situation in Western Sahara is extremely serious and represents a qualitative leap and a historical event before which we cannot remain impassive.
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Our Strike is Essential! Together with Polish Women for Freedom of Abortion
E.A.S.T. – ESSENTIAL AUTONOMOUS STRUGGLES TRANSNATIONAL
November 2020
We, Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational, stand together with the strikers. At our first public assembly joined by dozens of people and watched by thousands from Central and Eastern Europe and well beyond (see the recording of the meeting here) we decided to support the strike actions in Poland because in this strike we recognize a powerful response to yet another attack on our freedom.
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Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn – Fight the witch-hunt
November 2020
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party on Thursday 29 October. This statement was issued by Socialist Resistance that same day.
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After the horror in Nice, reject the logic of war
NPA statement
October 2020
On 29 October another horrific attack left three dead in a church in Nice, by a man reportedly of Tunisian descent. In response, President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France “is under attack” and, according to The Guardian, ordered the military mobilized “to protect all places of worship, particularly Catholic churches, for the religious holiday of All Saints Day on Sunday. The number of soldiers on the streets is to be raised from 3,000 to 7,000 and troops will be deployed outside schools for the return to class on Monday.”
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