Activists remember “50 years after Baodiao: How Hong Kong struggled against all nationalisms”, Ilya Budraitskis explains “How the Russian Left Survived in a Post‑Soviet World”, Dave Kellaway reviews David Broder’s "Rescued from history, Rome’s dissident Communist partisans”. Eric Toussaint charts “Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today” and “Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade” ” by Alain Badiou.
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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.
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China vs America
China versus America: war in the Pacific?
16 January, by Phil HearseDespite the growing integration of Chinese and American economies, the rise of reactionary nationalism and the role of ‘militarised accumulation’ is tilting these two giant powers towards military confrontation.
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Chile
Constituent Social Movements bloc advances environmentalist and feminist demands in Chilean Convention
15 January, by Camila HigueraMovimientos Sociales Constituyentes (Constituent Social Movements- MSC) has positioned itself as one of the most important forces within Chile’s Constituent Convention.
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France
Fighting French Fascism Means More Than “Anyone but Éric Zemmour”
14 January, by Ugo Palheta“This … means fighting the banalization (and radicalization) of Islamophobia at the highest levels of the state, as in mass media, and in resisting the state authoritarianism daily expressed in the fate imposed on migrants and the securitarian surveillance of working-class and immigrant neighborhoods.”
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Chile
Chile’s victorious “new left” brings hope, but it’s all to play for
13 January, by Franck Gaudichaud“For the first time in our history we are writing a constitution in a democratic manner. Let us take care of this process so that we have a Magna Carta that is a meeting point and not a source of division.”
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China-USA
What is missing from the debate about the China-US contest
12 January, by Au Loong-Yu“The people have their own war to fight, a war to restore their self-esteem and their political and economic rights to be free. Let us turn our ears in their direction and support their struggle. ”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Bolivia
Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year
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Covid-19 pandemic
Novak Djokovic is no Spartacus
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Ukraine
The United States and Russia Struggle over Ukraine. War on the Horizon?
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Antilles
Martinique and Guadeloupe still in turmoil
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Kazakhstan
Protests in Kazakhstan: A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising?
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USA - Debate
The Invasion of Capitol Hill
11 January 2021, by Cihan Tuğalread article...Decaying Institutions, Rightwing Insurrection, and the Need for a Mass Movement
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USA - Debate
Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates
11 January 2021, by Jeff Macklerread article...“Humanity’s future also rests on the emergence and consolidation of a new and independent Black, Latinx and Native American leadership to champion the struggles of the most oppressed and exploited and establish democratic control of their communities while opening the way to the formation of independent Black and Brown parties in the political arena.”
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USA - Debate
Capitol (United States): Attempted insurrection fails
10 January 2021, by Barry Sheppard, Malik Miahread article...The attempted coup to overturn the election in the mass riots and invasion of the Capital Building to prevent Congress counting the Electoral College results, was prepared months in advance.
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USA - Debate
The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph
9 January 2021, by Rafael Khachaturian , Stephen Maherread article...The riot at the Capitol on Wednesday was a symptom of right-wing weakness, not power. The real danger isn’t a MAGA coup, but a restoration of the neoliberal status quo that produced the nightmare of Trump and his minions.
Kazakhstan
Statement: Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan
January 2022
There has been a rapid and strong response to the circulation of this Kazakhstan solidarity statement. Very close to 200 signatures in almost 40 countries were collected in the space of just two days, with many prominent individuals and organisations.
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For a democratic and socialist Kazakhstan! Stop the intervention, release the detainees!
January 2022
This joint statement by socialist organizations of Russia was made on 6 January 2022.
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Statement of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
January 2022
This statement was published by the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan on 6 January 2022.
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Mindanao: Soldier of the Peoples, Defender of the Oppressed! Highest Salute to Comrade Tripon/Jojo!
January 2022
Statement of the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army –National Operational Command on the murder of Comrade Tripon/Jojo.
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Mindanao: Statement regarding the killing of Comrade Zandro/Tripon
December 2021
Statement of the Executive Committee of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Mangagawa – Mindanao (RPM-M) and the National Operational Command of the Revolutionary People’s Army (NOC-RPA) regarding the killing of Comrade Zandro/Tripon.
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