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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Brazil
A Major Change - The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Gains Strength Against Attacks from Trump and His Far-Right Allies on Brazil
22 July, by Israel DutraIn recent hours, Bolsonaro’s legal situation has worsened, with a warrant authorizing searches of his properties, the imposition of an electronic ankle monitor, a ban on social media access, and other precautionary measures in response to his alleged conspiracy with Trump. (Revista Movimento)
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USA
Two Dead Americans—Two Americas
20 July, by Dan La BotzLast week, the nation’s attention focused on two dead Americans, two men who couldn’t be more different, two men who seem to embody the nation’s divided politics, culture, and morality. One was John Lewis, the African American civil rights leader and legislator who died five years ago. The other was Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy socialite and convicted pedophile who provided elite businessmen and politicians access to underage girls.
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Britain
Starmer’s first year – things can only get worse
19 July, by Dave KellawaySitting in number 10 Downing Street after the government’s debacle and U turn over the welfare, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney must have thought: these people are so ungrateful.
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“Here they are taking a wrecking ball to Reeves and Kendall’s project to save £5 billion with welfare cuts. But I made these MPs. I ensured nearly every left wing candidate had been eliminated early from any selection process. My team assiduously sifted through thousands of social (…) -
Latvia
Let Vlad stay
18 July, by MaiznicaA Riga-based social-centre project called “Maiznica” is facing repression from state security services and the expulsion of one of their members from the country. In this press release from the Collective they aim to spread the news to a wider audience.
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Syria
Syria and the Dangers of Playing with Fire
17 July, by Gilbert AchcarWhatever is the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Suwayda Governorate—whether they were merely the result of the chaos prevailing in post-Assad Syria, or a manoeuvre by Israel in order to escalate its hypocritical intervention in the region, or a manoeuvre by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to extend its control over southern Syria—what is unmistakable is that the first factor, the prevailing chaos, provided the conditions for the explosion.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Kosova
Remembering Srebrenica 30 Years On
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Chile
Communist Party triumph and opportunity in an adverse electoral scenario in Chile
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Iran
Islamic Republic and state racism: we must put an end to this regime!
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USA
Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement
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Togo
A wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations in Togo
Recently posted Features
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Now out:
Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
8 October 2021, by Ian Parkerread article...“Mandel’s main fault, several speakers at the commemorative meeting claimed, was over-optimism. But he left us with writing on the history and economic grounding of capitalism, analyses of bureaucracy and alienation, and an account of the underlying structural preconditions for the world we live in today.”
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Greece 2011
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight
3 October 2021, by Stathis Kouvelakisread article...“It is thus crucial that the lessons of this tough experience not be lost. The first is that even a mass movement of such magnitude cannot alone provide solutions to the problems posed by its own emergence. ”
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Marxism and internationalism
Either-Or: Rosa Luxemburg and Internationalism
30 September 2021, by Michael Löwyread article...“[E]ither we stop, by pulling the revolutionary emergency brakes, the train of modern capitalist industrial civilization, or it will continue its suicidal course toward an abyss: ecological catastrophe.”
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Marxism
Rosa Luxemburg & Trotsky
30 September 2021, by Michael Löwyread article...“This article, if I remember well, was published around 1979 in the French Journal Quatrième Internationale. If I would rewrite it today, I would probably give greater emphasis on the positive side of Rosa Luxemburg’s and young Leon Trotsky’s views on political organization. But I still agree with the essential argument of the paper, bringing together both thinkers, as the guiding inspirations of the Fourth International.” [Author’s note]
Iran-Israel
Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!
June 2025
While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes’ and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic’, what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.
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Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran
June 2025
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:
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On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran
Radical Socialist Statement
June 2025
Radical Socialist endorses the statement of the Fourth International issued on 13th June on the current Israeli war of aggression against Iran. Hence, we are reproducing the statement below. At the same time, we want our readers, especially in India, to note strongly certain concerns, some briefly mentioned in the FI statement, others specific to the Indian context.
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Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group
June 2025
UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.
USA
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
Statement by the Solidarity National Committee
June 2025
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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