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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Sudan
Sudan’s huge tragedy and the way out
30 September, by Gilbert AchcarSudan’s political crisis continues to escalate, with the country sliding into civil war. This article analyses the roots of the conflict and argues that international intervention is needed to impose a ceasefire and enable a democratic transition.
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Syria
A breath of the 2011 resistance in Syrian protest movement,
29 September, by Joseph Daher“While the resilience and courage of the Sweida demonstrators are to be welcomed, only an extension of the protest movement to other regions can allow it to continue and represent a real challenge to the regime.”
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Argentina
After the primaries, the elections
28 September, by Eduardo Lucita“The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive.”
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Nicaragua
“The world needs to be aware that human rights are being trampled on in Nicaragua”
27 September, by Jeunes anticapitalistes (JAC)“Denounce Ortega to international organizations. Call on human rights organizations. Drive support campaigns.”
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Iran solidarity
One year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising
26 September, by Shirin ShalkooiA point of view from the feminist solidarity movement in Brussels
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Venezuelan immigrants win victory
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Pakistan
Anti-imperialism of fools: The case of Imran Khan
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China
We do not need "great symbols of authority" with double standards: expel patriarchal behavior and harassment from our social movements!
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Nagorno- Karabakh
“It feels like the apocalypse”
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USA
Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.
Recently posted Debate
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The rise of Europe’s religious right
18 April 2011, by Sophie in ’t Veldread article...Europe is generally regarded as the most secularised continent in the world. But in few EU member states is there a complete separation between church and state. The old interweaving of religious and worldly authority still makes itself felt in many countries today.
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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. (...)
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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