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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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Puerto RIco
The 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left
17 January, by José A. Laguarta Ramírez“If a solid leftist electoral front can be built while maintaining the pressure of street mobilization on a much weakened colonial capitalist regime, a true sea change is not just possible but within reach.”
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Bolivia
The Return of Democracy and an Uncertain Future
16 January, by Bret Gustafson“Wherever one stands on Evo Morales, and despite the challenges ahead, it is clear that at least for the moment, Bolivians continue to challenge capitalism and its orthodoxies.”
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Romania
First as tragedy, then as farce? AUR and the long shadow of fascism in Romania
15 January, by Raul Carstocea“Yet if the story of the defeat of fascism and of the central role played by socialism in its demise teaches us any lesson, it is that we surely have to keep trying.”
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USA
Post-Election 2020: A Crisis of Representation
14 January, by Barry EidlinFailed beer hall putsch re-enactments aside, Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 if not sooner—at least for the next four years. The focus now shifts to the post-Trump world: what can we expect from the incoming Biden administration?
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Venezuela
Parliamentary elections – Results and prospects
13 January, by Elio Colmenarez“Taking control of the AN from the right was vital for the Bolivarian revolution, with elections in the midst of a serious economic crisis, mainly the consequence of the blockade imposed by imperialism. ”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Venezuela
2021 begins with a new National Assembly. Will it lead to advances?
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Britain
Five Things we have Learnt from the National Education Union’s Mobilisation to Keep Schools Safe.
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South Africa
Nationalism and patriotism: the opium of the masses
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s mass arrests are an assault on grassroots advocacy
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USA
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then & Now
Recently posted Debate
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USA - Debate
After the fascist coup in the United States No time to lose - counter-offensive now!
8 January, by Socialistisk Politikread article...“Our hope is for the forces that in recent years have shown that the United States is so much more than the banner of big business and imperialism, from politicians of Bernie Sanders’ cut to activists in Black Lives Matter, it abounds in campaigns for health care reforms and other social reforms to the socialist currents that have smelled morning air in the tracks of these movements.”
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USA presidential elections
Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can’t win the war
19 November 2020, 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 2020, 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 2020, 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.
Argentina
Argentina abortion: Senate approves legalisation in historic decision
December 2020
Argentina’s Congress has legalised abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy, a ground-breaking move for a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive termination laws.
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New issue of Amandla!
December 2020
The December issue of the South African journal Amandla! is now out.
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Hundreds of thousands against authoritarian policies: let’s continue to win
November 2020
“Today’s mobilization was incredible, like a huge awakening after months of political confinement.”
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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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