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.
Recently posted Debate
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Internal Democracy and Public Debate in Revolutionary Parties
16 May 2005, byread article...Murray Smith replies to Doug Lorimer of the Australian DSP on the issue of internal democracy and public debate in revolutionary parties . Contrary to Lorimer, Smith argues that debating party differences in public was the norm, and not the exception, in Lenin’s Bolshevik Party.
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Marxism and Religion
Alliances and Coalitions in Britain: ‘Stop the War’ and ‘Respect’
16 April 2005, by ,read article...Two members of the leadership of the ISG in Britain take issue with criticisms which Gilbert Achcar made of Trotskyists in Britain.
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A critical question
Why we should defend Secularism
31 March 2005, byread article...Religion is not simply an expression of alienation, it is a protest against it. Religion is not just ‘the opium of the people’, according to Marx, it is ‘the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world.’
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A key challenge for socialists
Marxists and Religion - yesterday and today
16 March 2005, byread article...Achcar’s survey ranges from basic principles, the disputes over the hijab, to the policies of the French and British far left organisations - some of which he finds "unacceptable from a Marxist point of view."
