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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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Brazil
Local elections indicate a new moment in Brazil
26 November, by Bruno MagalhâesWhat’s at stake in upcoming 29 November municipal elections across Brazil?
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Ecosocialism
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
25 November, by Michael LöwyShould the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
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Thailand
Towards a test of strength
24 November, by Pierre RoussetThe government is threatening severe repression. The democracy movement is calling for increased mobilization. The first key date announced is 25 November.
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Peru
Hugo Blanco: “I was neither a ‘Castroite guerrilla’ nor a ‘terrorist’”
23 November, by Hugo BlancoInternational Viewpoint previously published a statement rebutting the attacks against Hugo Blanco, “Massive support for Hugo Blanco faced with ultra-right attacks”. Here he speaks in his own words.
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Spanish state:
Down with the king!
22 November, by Jaime Pastor , Miguel Urban Crespo“Reasons to believe that we will continue to advance until we can build a broad movement that makes the slogan “Down with the king!” a proposal for the future.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Hong Kong
The Scorched Earth Tactic and the Hong Kong Resistance
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Brazil
Bolsonaro defeated, the left remains alive
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United States:
Trump’s slow coup? The crisis of bourgeois democracy
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Puerto RIco
After 2019 Uprising, a new socialist formation and new political party, change the electoral game
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USA
Trump Lost the Election, But What is the Future of Trump and Trumpism?
Recently posted Debate
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Debate: Libya, the resistance, the no-fly zone
On No Fly Zones as a form of External Military Intervention
5 April 2011, by Achin Vanaikread article...What are the different arguments surrounding the debate on no-fly zones? Should foreign powers ever claim the right to intervene or should the people of a country overthrow their own dictators? Do interventionists not always have alterior motives that could undermine the people’s sovereignty over their struggle and it’s outcomes
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Debate: Libya
Should the left back intervention in Libya?
4 April 2011, by Alex Callinicosread article...Alex Callinicos published this comment on the 29th of March on Socialist Workker Online.
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Three discourses on Political Islam in the Middle East
4 April 2011, by Farooq Sulehriaread article...It was a Russian Jew who set communism on foot in Egypt but his efforts were assisted by the British General Staff Intelligence Department which succeeded in 1919 in obtaining from the grand mufti, Shaikh Muhammad Bakhit, a fatwa against Bolshevism. The effect was directly contrary to what it had anticipated. Some newspapers attacked the fatwa and defended the Bolsheviks.
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Debate: Libya, the resistance, the no-fly zone
Barack Obama’s Libya Speech and the Tasks of Anti-Imperialists
1 April 2011, by Gilbert Achcarread article...Gilbert Achcar published this comment on the 31st of March.
France
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.
- read article...Women’s rights in Poland
Our Strike is Essential! Together with Polish Women for Freedom of Abortion
E.A.S.T. – ESSENTIAL AUTONOMOUS STRUGGLES TRANSNATIONAL
November 2020
We, Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational, stand together with the strikers. At our first public assembly joined by dozens of people and watched by thousands from Central and Eastern Europe and well beyond (see the recording of the meeting here) we decided to support the strike actions in Poland because in this strike we recognize a powerful response to yet another attack on our freedom.
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Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn – Fight the witch-hunt
November 2020
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party on Thursday 29 October. This statement was issued by Socialist Resistance that same day.
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After the horror in Nice, reject the logic of war
NPA statement
October 2020
On 29 October another horrific attack left three dead in a church in Nice, by a man reportedly of Tunisian descent. In response, President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France “is under attack” and, according to The Guardian, ordered the military mobilized “to protect all places of worship, particularly Catholic churches, for the religious holiday of All Saints Day on Sunday. The number of soldiers on the streets is to be raised from 3,000 to 7,000 and troops will be deployed outside schools for the return to class on Monday.”
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