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
Deaths to order
27 February, by“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”
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Palestine
Israel’s International Prison Policies
26 February, by ,As colonization and repression intensify in Palestine, Israeli prison policy is reaching an unprecedented level. Mass arrests, torture, arbitrary detentions and the international extension of repressive measures are part of a globalized colonial system.
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Ukraine
A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.
25 February, by ,Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.
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Japan
Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election
24 February, byWhat Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?
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USA
Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon
23 February, by“Jesse Jackson was a hero to millions. Even those of us on the socialist left praised his integrity and outspoken views on issues like Black Lives Matter and police violence.”
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Russia
In Search of Russia’s Lost Opposition
12 February, byread article...The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests.
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Russia
Why Russia’s ruling class is obsessed with the West
12 February, byread article...Vladimir Putin and his ruling elite are obsessed with the West “which is simultaneously seen as both the main adversary and the only potential partner”, […] that obsession has “its roots in the reactionary legacy of the Russian Empire”.
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Imperialism
Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump’s Warmongering
12 February, by ,read article...While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.
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Venezuela
Venezuela after the coup
12 February, by ,read article...“Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.”
