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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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  • Sexual politics:

    Black feminism and intersectionality

    29 December 2013, by Sharon Smith

    “Although we are in essential agreement with Marx’s theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women.”
    —the Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977

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  • Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era

    28 December 2013, by Tithi Bhattacharya

    Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the woman, thirty-three-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, a housekeeper at Strauss-Kahn’s hotel who was also at the time seeking asylum in the United States from her native Guinea, a former colony of France.

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  • Britain

    Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory

    24 November 2013, by Terry Conway

    This paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, 10 November 2013, in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s”.

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  • Fourth International

    The Fourth International and women’s liberation

    24 November 2013, by Penelope Duggan

    This article forms the Introduction to a collection of Fourth International resolutions published by the International Institute for Research and Education in collaboration with Resistance Books.

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