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.
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.
read article...The success of 22 February shows that the resistance movement against military rule has grown even stronger.
read article...“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.”
read article...“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.”
read article...“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.”
read article...Murray Smith responds to Alex Callinicos on models of organisation for the left.
Alan Thornett continues the debate with Alex Callinicos about Respect, the Socialist Alliance and how to organise the left.
Urgent update
“Dimitris Koufodinas life in danger, after 50 days of hunger strike in Greek jail”, The Press Project, 26 February 2021.
“We support the call of many organizations to maintain a permanent mobilization to ensure that the popular vote is respected.”
- read article...Just two days before Brazil’s National Day of Trans Visibility (29 January) an attack on a Black transvestite, intersex elected representative in São Paulo.
- read article...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
“The paralysis that has afflicted the political and social left in the face of Corona can thus be overcome to some extent if appropriately coordinated activities are developed on the ground. This is what we are working for.”
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