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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.

USA

Climate Change Comes to Republican Texas Producing a Disaster
24 February, by Dan La Botz
Climate change and Republican policies combined in Texas last week to produce a disaster that left millions without power, without heat, and without water as temperatures fell below freezing and snow and ice covered the state, leaving at least 50 dead. The state’s rare severe cold is another example of the extreme weather in the form of floods and forest fires that climate change has brought to the United States.
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Myanmar

General strike against Mynamar junta!
23 February, by Pierre Rousset
The success of 22 February shows that the resistance movement against military rule has grown even stronger.
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Myanmar

Millions Expected to Join General Strike in Myanmar on Monday to Oppose Regime
22 February, by The Irrawaddy
“We can’t collapse. If we drew back at this point, the military regime would intensify its crackdown. Therefore, I think it is important to unite between organizations and intensify the strike.”
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Spanish state

Defend Pablo Hasel the rapper, defend democratic rights in the Spanish State
21 February, by Dave Kellaway
“What we do urgently need is to turn these protests onto the offensive. This means avoiding the isolation of the protests, broadening them and involving more and more social sectors.”
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Greece

In Greece, anger rises against the government of money, cops and free riding
20 February, by Andreas Sartzekis
“The perspectives on the left are for the moment blocked, which reinforces the role of the mass movement and should push the radical and revolutionary left to come out of its reflexes of self-affirmation, which are of little use in offering credible perspectives on the left.”
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Recently posted Debate

Broad Parties

The European elections and the anti-capitalist left
9 December 2004, by Murray Smith
Murray Smith responds to Alex Callinicos on models of organisation for the left.
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Broad Parties

A reply to Alex Callinicos
9 December 2004, by Alan Thornett
Alan Thornett continues the debate with Alex Callinicos about Respect, the Socialist Alliance and how to organise the left.
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News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements

Greece

Solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris Koufodinas!

Sign this statement

January 2021

We stand in solidarity with the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger-strike since January 8, 2021, and whose health is now in critical condition.

We demand:
that he be transferred to Korydallos prison
a stop to all arbitrary legal and factual interventions against him
a stop to all discriminatory treatment against him

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International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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Climate Change Comes to Republican Texas Producing a Disaster

General strike against Mynamar junta!

Millions Expected to Join General Strike in Myanmar on Monday to Oppose Regime

Defend Pablo Hasel the rapper, defend democratic rights in the Spanish State

In Greece, anger rises against the government of money, cops and free riding

...and the rest of the current issue

Capitol: “He is guilty” said 57 Senators, but Trump walks

How to fight the pandemic? Notes on experiences in Asia and Europe

Biden Moves Ahead as Republicans Line Up Behind Trump

Battle of the polls - tension between the lefts.

Catalan elections closely watched in Scotland

Recently posted Debate

The European elections and the anti-capitalist left

A reply to Alex Callinicos

News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements

Solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris Koufodinas!

In the face of electoral theft we demand respect for the people’s vote

Home of Carolina Iara, PSOL co-councillor in São Paulo, attacked - Investigation now!

Solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris Koufodinas!

For a European shutdown in solidarity from below against the pandemic