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.
“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.”
read article...A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike [which began on September 14] is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and nonunion despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that.
read article...The carnage in Libya caused by a Mediterranean hurricane, known as “Daniel” or “medicane”, will take weeks to be quantified in terms of the number of dead and missing, probably in the tens of thousands, to which a million people have already been displaced.
read article...“Although fragmented and heterogeneous, a few dissenting voices are standing up to this wave of injustice and contempt”
read article...“ I know that we’re on the right side in this battle, because it’s a battle of the working class against the rich, the halves versus the have nots, the billionaire class against everybody else.”
read article...“Internationalist feminist politics must take as its starting point the voices of the people concerned. Any feminist politics that is done without these voices will ultimately be done against them, and will thus be detrimental to the construction of global feminist solidarity.”
Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of the war, Ukrainians are just victims in need of humanitarian aid, not subjects with desires that should be respected.
Of course, this doesn’t apply to everyone on the left—not by a long shot. (...)
The Executive Bureau of the Fourth International has issued two statements on Ukraine. One before the invasion, on 30 January 2022, entitled "Against NATO and Russian military escalation in Eastern Europe”; and another one after the start of the invasion, on 1 March 2022, entitled "No to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine! Support the Ukrainian resistance! Solidarity with the Russian opposition to the war!".
This Declaration of the Tendency for a Revolutionary International (TRI), public tendency of the FI (ex-USec) was issued on Monday, 14 March 2022.
“Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged ‘Gezi Park Trials’ after being unjustly convicted of ‘attempting to overthrow the government’.”
- read article...“Protesters of Haqooq e Khalq party were chanting slogans against IMF and the ruling coalition.”
- read article...“The criminal case against Boris Kagarlitsky is an attack on the entire left movement.”
- read article...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.
- read article...An urgent appeal from the major Japanese feminist group: Women’s Action Network (WAN).
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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