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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Brazil
End of the Nightmare in Brazil?
5 October, by Michael Löwy“Lula is likely to win in the second round on October 30. But Bolsonaro, following the example of his political model, Donald Trump, has already announced that he will not recognize an unfavorable result.”
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Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh in conference
4 October, by Catherine Samary, Collective“All four of us were very convinced of the importance of this conference—as a step in building a left, social and political organisation/movement so essential for Ukraine’s future.”
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Brazil
Disappointed hopes in the first round of elections
3 October, by Israel Dutra, Thiago AguiarA dynamic seemed to be building for the election of Lula in the first round.
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France
The left of work against left of "benefits": Goodbye Croizat!
2 October, by Jean-Claude Laumonier‘It is not social rights that produce mistrust and hostility among employees, it is on the contrary the fact that these rights are not for everyone and are increasingly restricted, giving the feeling that aid is “for others and never for me”.’
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Chad
“The Déby clan wants to retain power, whatever the cost to the people”
1 October, by Paul Martial, Zang Nézouné Mahamat“The junta started its reign in a brutal and bloody way, it was however recognised by Emmanuel Macron, present at the funeral of Idriss Déby Itno. Demonstrations organized by political groups, human rights associations, and trade union organizations were violently repressed (eight dead and more than five hundred arrested), their leaders were arrested.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Russia and war
War and resistance in Putin’s Russia
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USA
Republican Governors Use Migrants as Pawns in Political Game—But Put Themselves in Check
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Iran
Islamic regime shaken by unprecedented revolt
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Italy
Post Fascist Leader Giorgia Meloni Wins in Italy
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War in Ukraine
One Ukrainian democratic socialist’s opinion on the war
Recently posted Debate
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Ukraine/Russia
The Ukraine War Will End, But How?
1 June, by Peter Solenbergerread article...The Russian invasion of Ukraine caught most observers by surprise. I, for one, didn’t think that the Russian government would be so foolish as to invade. If Ukraine resisted, the Russian military could destroy it with nuclear weapons but couldn’t conquer it with the conventional forces they had deployed to its borders. The Russian ruling class needed a deal, not a war. Ukraine in the European Union and out of NATO, like Finland or Sweden, would have suited it very well. The Russian people certainly didn’t want war.
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Ukraine/Russia
The Suffering of Crimea’s Tatars
1 June, by Mustafa Dzhemilev, Riada Asimovic Akyolread article...Crimean Tatar leader and Soviet dissident Mustafa Dzhemilev talks to New Lines about a war that, for him, began in 2014 and has only grown worse since
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Ukraine/Russia
Ukraine: the return of Francis Fukuyama
1 June, by Phil Hearseread article...It is no accident that amidst heated debates about the future of Ukraine and the role of NATO, the thinking of American political theorist Francis Fukuyama is resurfacing.
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Russia/Ukraine
Against Putin’s War in Ukraine
17 May, by Ashley Smith, Ilya Budraitskisread article...“In the beginning of the Twentieth century, the international left was much clearer about how to combine opposition to all imperialisms with recognition of the right of oppressed nations to self-determination.”
Russia and war
Posle on mobilization: what to expect and what is to be done
September 2022
“The mobilization announcement looks like a desperate step and a challenge for a regime that had relied on mass depoliticization.”
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Update on strike movement in Britain
September 2022
“The material reality of the attack on working class living standards is cutting through the pomp and circumstance.”
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Solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian resistance to the war
Statement of 37th Fourth International youth camp
August 2022
“We will stay in solidarity with our Ukrainian comrades and with our Russian comrades to contribute to the defeat of the Russian invasion in any way we can and help rebuild an independent and democratic Ukraine.”
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Stop the attack on the labour rights of Ukrainian workers!
Demand President Zelinskyy veto anti-worker Laws 5161 and 5371
July 2022
Petition proposed by the European network for solidarity with Ukraine.
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Ranil Resign! Stop the Repression! Solidarity with the Aragalaya!
July 2022
Statement of Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist Peoples’ Forum)
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