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.
What Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?
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“ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they’re afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.”
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Early 2026 has been turbulent for the Algerian regime, marked by an accumulation of improvisations and tensions creating a state of alert. A series of social and political events have highlighted structural and latent contradictions in governmental affairs management that contradict the president’s triumphalist rhetoric.
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The Starmer projest is crashing.
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“The outpouring of protest and support for immigrants is a multiracial fightback based in the working class with anti-racist politics at its heart. It is a powerful antidote to Trump’s use of anti-immigrant scapegoating.”
read article...Joanna Misnik (6 September 1943-3 September 2025) was a leading Fourth Internationalist in the United States for many decades. International Viewpoint published a number of tributes earlier. This substantive essay traces Joanna’s political life and underlines her important contribution.
The original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.
U.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump’s second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
NATO’s joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc’s shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.
After 59 days of unjust imprisonment, Lyes Touati has finally been acquitted - 59 days of waiting, mobilization, solidarity and determination.
- read article...20 January by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Walden Bello, Sushovan Dhar, Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Rafael Bernabe, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Gilbert Achcar, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Michael Roberts, Vijay Prashad, Achin Vanaik, Zarah Sultana, Manon Aubry, Annie Ernaux, Ada Colau, Bhaskar Sunkara.
- read article...The International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles is passing on information received from trade union comrades in Venezuela. With Venezuela, as with Palestine, as with Ukraine, as with Sudan, as everywhere else in the world, nothing can replace direct contact between workers. For our social class, it is the best source of information and the best way to build common struggles.
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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