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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Geopolitics
With Trump in the White House, China and Latin America may try to forge an even deeper relationship
29 January, by Jose CaballeroWithin days of Donald Trump’s election win in November 2024, China’s president Xi Jinping was at a ceremony opening a deep-water port in Peru as part of a “diplomatic blitz” through Latin America.
Xi’s presence was a symbol of China’s rising influence in the region.
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Pakistan
World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles
28 January, by Farooq TariqOn 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, gas prices increased by a record 840% and electricity tariffs rose over 110 %.
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USA
Trump’s Wrecking Ball
27 January, by Dan La BotzPresident Donald J. Trump, in his first week in office swung a wrecking ball smashing institutions, breaking laws, and wreaking havoc. The effect is dizzying.
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Britain
Defend the right to protest
26 January, by Roland RanceRoland Rance critises the ramping up of the state’s determination to further criminalise protest and calls for action to fight back
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Geopolitics
Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism
25 January, by Thierry LabicaNewly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Women
France: 50 years of the Veil law: abortion, a right never won
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Middle East
Two Myths About the Gaza Ceasefire
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Germany
Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation
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South Korea
South Korea’s Conservatives Are Trying to Cling to Power
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Brazil
Lula’s return: two years of PT rule
Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Leninism in the 21st century
16 November 2001, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...Daniel Bensaïd, a central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR - French section of the Fourth International) spoke on ’Leninism in the 21st century’ at the June ’Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British Socialist Workers Party. IV spoke to him afterwards.
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Women and parties
The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political Organizing
23 March 1997, by Penelope Dugganread article...“The purpose of this report is to look at the challenges to and criticisms of traditional political organizational forms, primarily those made by the women’s movement but also by other social movements, and consider whether they are well-founded or not.”
France
Put an end to Macron and the Fifth Republic!
Statement by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA-l’Anticapitaliste)
December 2024
After the vote of no confidence, let’s finish with Macron and the 5th Republic!
The result was clear: 331 votes in favour of the no confidence motion. The Barnier government resigned and the austerity budget law fell. This illegitimate government, a symbol of Macron’s decomposition of the Macron presidency, had no future. The promise of ever more austerity and authoritarianism has been rejected by the vast majority of the population.
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Ukrainian care workers’ union growth shows strength, resilience during war
November 2024
In the heart of a war-torn nation, Ukraine’s care workers are showing extraordinary resilience and unity in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Through their union Be Like Nina (BLN), these healthcare heroes are organizing under challenging circumstances not just to protect their livelihoods and improve their jobs but also to strengthen a healthcare system stretched to its limits.
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Standing in solidarity with the PepsiCo workers’ strike in Brazil!
November 2024
“Brazilian civil society, social movements and trade unions are campaigning in solidarity with the PepsiCo strike.”
- read article...Marxism/Fourth International
Publishing a new collection of writings by Daniel Bensaïd
October 2024
New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France’s most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention.
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The Summer ‘Uni’, a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation
September 2024
The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism’ with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.
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