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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
Bolsonaro is breaking the country: 200,000 dead, unemployment and poverty
18 January, by Esquerda Online“It is necessary to make 2021 a year of resistance and unitary action, on the streets - while respecting health standards - against this genocidal government. ”
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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
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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
Recently posted Debate
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Debate: Libya/Denmark
No to imperialist war in Libya
14 April 2011, by SAP (Denmark)read article...The Red Green Alliance in Denmark decided to support Danish participation in the UN-NATO intervention in Libya. This support was later retracted. The SAP (Danish section of the Fourth International), which is part of the RGA, disagrees with the original position and considers the retraction insufficient, given the motivation. This resolution from their leadership explains why. The two statements from the RGA are published following the SAP resolution.
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Debate: Libya, Syria
The Arab revolutions and campist politics
11 April 2011, by Santiago Alba Ricoread article...Whether they are fake republics, oil theocracies or pseudo-parliamentary monarchies and independently of their social and economic profile, all the countries of the Arab world share - or shared before January 14 - a common feature: they are all subjected to ferocious dictatorships run by small oligarchies who maintain themselves in power by Mafia-style practices and police repression, generating in the majority of the cases elevated and scandalous levels of poverty for the majority of their population.
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Debate: Libya/Italy
Stop the bombing, support the revolutions, no to the dictators and to repression, rights for migrants.
9 April 2011, by Sinistra Critica (Critical Left)read article...One just has to look at what is happening in Lampedusa to see the hypocrisy of the war manoeuvres in Libya. Western governments, led by France, the USA, Great Britain and followed by Italy, have been ready to bomb in order to protect the Arab people from Gaddafi’s dictatorship. This is the same dictatorship, which the West had praised, recognised and sold arms to, in exchange for generous, guaranteed contracts for energy resources and assurances over the control of migration from Africa. (...)
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Debate: Libya/Pakistan
Statement on NATO attacks on Libya
9 April 2011, by Pakistan Left Partiesread article...While it is accepted that Gaddafi and his model of ruling is autocratic and repressive and cannot be supported by any progressive grouping a few things also need to be stated about NATO and its discourse of humanitarian intervention and let us state them clearly:
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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