News from around the world

This statement was adopted unanimously by the International Committee
of the Fourth International on 25 February 2014.

A new petition in solidarity with the Egyptian revolution has been launched in a renewed effort to defend fundamental democratic rights that were central demands of the events known as the “25 January revolution” in Egypt.

On Saturday 1 February a major demonstration took place in Madrid in protest against the government’s proposal to limit severely access to abortion.

For us as militants of the Fourth International of these last forty years, Moro – the Moor – was a militant reference point.

You can follow International Viewpoint on Facebook to via the Fourth International page to receive updates as soon as new articles are published.

International Viewpoint is now on Twitter @IViewpoint Follow us for regular updates- selected articles, news from the Fourth International, solidarity appeals etc- and help us to extend our network of contacts.

There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has given birth to at its historic Special National Congress held last week. The Democratic Left Front (DLF) congratulates NUMSA for this, Congress that united metalworkers in spite of the sustained attempts to divide NUMSA.

Europe Solidaire sans Frontières has launched a call for financial solidarity toward the Philippine victims of typhoons…

Anti-nuclear organisations in Japan are calling for mass international support for their petition, which draws particular attention to the pollution of the oceans both in terms of the leakage of ground water and from the storage tanks themselves. This is so serious they argue, that it is as if ’another serious accident has occurred.
Sign here

The strike at the Antolin plant in St. Petersburg has finished with a victory of trade union. Management will start negotiations with trade union, there will be no repression against participants of the strike. - 21 October 2013.