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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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Nagorno- Karabakh
“It feels like the apocalypse”
22 September, by Mike Phipps“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.”
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USA
Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.
21 September, by Dianne FeeleyA 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.
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Libya
A chain of disasters in Libya
20 September, by Maria PucciniThe 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.
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Italy
Three deaths at work per day on average
19 September, by Hélène Marra“Although fragmented and heterogeneous, a few dissenting voices are standing up to this wave of injustice and contempt”
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USA
Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time
18 September, by Dan La Botz“ 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.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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India
Did India really win its independence through non-violence?
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Philippines
Mindanao: Desperate situation of non-Moro indigenous peoples
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Geopolitics
Imperialism(s) and the New Cold War
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Japan
The Inherited “Results” of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Experiments on Human Beings
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Gabon
The end of a dynasty
Recently posted Debate
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War in Ukraine
Ukrainian Feminists under Western Eyes
17 May 2022, by Elisa Morosread 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.”
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Ukraine debate
Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine
5 May 2022, by Taras Bilousread article...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.
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Ukraine debate
A critique to the decisions of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International concerning the war in Ukraine
5 May 2022, by OKDE-Spartakosread article...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!".
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Ukraine debate
Let us build an international movement against the imperialist war! No to the intervention of NATO, the USA and the EU! Russian troops out of Ukraine!
5 May 2022, by Tendency for a Revolutionary Internationalread article...This Declaration of the Tendency for a Revolutionary International (TRI), public tendency of the FI (ex-USec) was issued on Monday, 14 March 2022.
Turkey
Solidarity call for Can Atalay!
September 2023
“Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged ‘Gezi Park Trials’ after being unjustly convicted of ‘attempting to overthrow the government’.”
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Protest rally of Huqooq e Khalq Party breached police barriers to reach Governor House
Huge Protest outside Governor House against rising electricity price and inflation
August 2023
“Protesters of Haqooq e Khalq party were chanting slogans against IMF and the ruling coalition.”
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“Organize a broad solidarity campaign and demand the immediate release of Boris Kagarlitsky and all political prisoners”
July 2023
“The criminal case against Boris Kagarlitsky is an attack on the entire left movement.”
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Stop the growing repression in Hong Kong!
July 2023
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.
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An Urgent Appeal from Feminists Protesting Discrimination and Hatred against LGBTQ+
July 2023
An urgent appeal from the major Japanese feminist group: Women’s Action Network (WAN).
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