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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Greece
Rail disaster in Greece: “Our dead, their profits”
5 March, by Andreas Sartzekis“In these conditions, the tragedy of Tèmbi is widely felt, with the large number of young victims, as a terrible proof of the contempt of this government and more generally of this economic system for the youth.”
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USA
The United States in 2023
4 March, by Dianne Feeley"[M]urderous police brutality, our epidemic of gun violence, abortion rights, and a significant although limited upturn in grassroots labor energy.”
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Portugal
After a year of absolute majority, first wave of mobilizations in Portugal
3 March, by Jorge CostaA year after the Socialist Party (SP) won an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament, the political situation has been altered by the popular struggle.
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Nicaragua
Ortega Strips Nationality from 94 Opponents
2 March, by Dan La Botz“A few days ago, President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaraguan government declared 94 of its citizens to be traitors and stripped them of their nationality, denying them citizenship rights, and seizing their property.”
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Britain
A mixed week for strikes in Britain
1 March, by Terry ConwayIt has been another mixed week for the industrial struggle in Britain
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Russia
Feminist Anti-War Resistance abortion rights petition
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China
China’s New Left: The Revival of Lost Traditions
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Algeria
Four years on - keeping the spirit of the Hirak alive!
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War in Ukraine
A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left
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War in Ukraine
“Now Ukraine Needs Allies, Not Talk of Neutrality”
Recently posted Debate
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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.”
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War in Ukraine
Why Russia’s Political Capitalists Went to War – and How the War Could End Their Rule
4 September 2022, by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat , Volodymyr Ishchenkoread article...Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. However, this war, depending on what happens on the battlefield, may equally bring about a fall or a radical transformation of the whole post-Soviet order. Interview by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat.
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France
Pensions: this Saturday 11 February in the streets! Strikes and blockades until total withdrawal!
NPA statement on Pensions struggle
February 2023
“To win, we must continue to organize, to put maximum pressure by blocking the economy.”
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Call for international action on 1 February
January 2023
Anti*Capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti trade union legislation.
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Stop the coupist offensive!
January 2023
“The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.”
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Portuguese nurses in solidarity with the NHS nurses strike
December 2022
“The reasons for this historic standstill are not unknown to us: every day we feel the disastrous effects of disinvestment in the public health service, the inadequacy of ratios or the loss of wages.”
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International action day on 10 Dec to protest against Apple and its supplier Foxconn / Zhengzhou
December 2022
Foxconn workers’ struggle served as a key prelude to the A4 Revolution, and we must continue to bridge between workers and broader mass struggles. We encourage global allies to organize their own protests at Apple stores to support Foxconn workers and other Chinese workers under threat.
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