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.
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Feminist Appel
Let’s get our lives back!
24 September, by European network for solidarity with Ukraine“As a first step we call on feminists around the world to raise prominently solidarity with Ukrainian and Polish women in their mobilizations in defence of abortion and reproductive rights on the occasion of 28 September, International Day for Abortion Rights.”
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Iran
Woman! Life! Freedom!
23 September, by Laya Hooshyari“As in the past, women are at the forefront of the protests and by taking off their scarfs, and they have shown that they are protesting not only against the hijab but also against the entire brutal structure of the Islamic Republic.”
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Ukraine
Ukrainian coal miners defy national protest ban to go on strike
22 September, by Kateryna Semchuk, Thomas Rowley“The mobilisation at Mine No. 9 is not the only protest in the western Ukrainian coal fields during Russia’s invasion of the country.”
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Abortion rights in USA
Frontera Struggles for Reproductive Justice
21 September, by Mireya Garcia, Mònica Clua-Losada“While the reversal of Roe has been a major setback for the reproductive justice movement in the Valley, the fight for liberation is far from over. The community’s outpouring of support for La Frontera Fund and South Texans for Reproductive Justice’s efforts shows otherwise.”
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Pakistan
After the floods, Pakistan needs reparations, not charity
20 September, by Farooq Tariq“Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Sweden
Swedish elections provoke earthquake
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Italy
Italy’s Rising Black Tide, A Creeping Counter-Revolution
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Tunisia
Defensive struggles against authoritarian restoration and social crisis in Tunisia
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Ukraine
Unions Strive to Keep Ukraine’s Mines Running, Protect Civilians and Appeal for Solidarity
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Fourth International youth camp
Being a transgender woman at the International Youth Camp
Recently posted Debate
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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:
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Debate: Libya/Britain
Socialist Resistance adopt statements on Arab revolutions and Libya
7 April 2011, by Socialist Resistanceread article...Socialist Resistance, British section of the Fourth International, held a successful and well attended national conference on the 2nd/3rd April 2011, with a session on the impact of the Arab revolutions and the imperialist intervention in Libya. Two resolutions were adopted on the Arab revolutions which are below.
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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
Britain
Update on strike movement in Britain
September 2022
“The material reality of the attack on working class living standards is cutting through the pomp and circumstance.”
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Solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian resistance to the war
Statement of 37th Fourth International youth camp
August 2022
“We will stay in solidarity with our Ukrainian comrades and with our Russian comrades to contribute to the defeat of the Russian invasion in any way we can and help rebuild an independent and democratic Ukraine.”
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Stop the attack on the labour rights of Ukrainian workers!
Demand President Zelinskyy veto anti-worker Laws 5161 and 5371
July 2022
Petition proposed by the European network for solidarity with Ukraine.
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Ranil Resign! Stop the Repression! Solidarity with the Aragalaya!
July 2022
Statement of Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist Peoples’ Forum)
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“We demand that the government responds to CONAIE’s 10 points and halts repression”
June 2022
This joint political declaration was issued by various left organisations in Ecuador. CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador/ Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador) is Ecuador’s largest indigenous rights organisation.
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