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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Iran solidarity
One year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising
26 September, by Shirin ShalkooiA point of view from the feminist solidarity movement in Brussels
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USA
Venezuelan immigrants win victory
25 September, by Dan La Botz“At present as many 9,000 immigrants are crossing the border each day, coming from dozens of countries and Venezuelans making up a large portion of them.”
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Pakistan
Anti-imperialism of fools: The case of Imran Khan
24 September, by Farooq Sulehria“The politics of Khan have not benefitted anti-imperialism by an iota in Pakistan. On the contrary, his politics have gravely undermined, for the years to come, the gains made by the women’s movement, democracy activism and the trade union struggles.”
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China
We do not need "great symbols of authority" with double standards: expel patriarchal behavior and harassment from our social movements!
23 September, by Mi-hyang Pak“There is no future for a movement that turns its back on the changing times. And there will be no young next generation willing to take over such a movement.”
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Nagorno- Karabakh
“It feels like the apocalypse”
22 September, by Mike Phipps“The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.
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Libya
A chain of disasters in Libya
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Italy
Three deaths at work per day on average
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USA
Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time
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India
Did India really win its independence through non-violence?
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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.”
Turkey
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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“Organize a broad solidarity campaign and demand the immediate release of Boris Kagarlitsky and all political prisoners”
July 2023
“The criminal case against Boris Kagarlitsky is an attack on the entire left movement.”
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Stop the growing repression in Hong Kong!
July 2023
For more than two years, many people who took part in the 2019-2020 uprising have been imprisoned in Hong Kong, including trade unionists Lee Cheuk-yan, Carol Ng and Winnie Yu.
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An Urgent Appeal from Feminists Protesting Discrimination and Hatred against LGBTQ+
July 2023
An urgent appeal from the major Japanese feminist group: Women’s Action Network (WAN).
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