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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Iran
Resumption of Bombing and Internal Crisis in Iran
17 August, byThe ceasefire between the US and Iran was shattered around the question of control of the Strait of Hormuz. As the US bombing resumes, divisions are deepening at the top of the Islamic Republic, with no way out for the people of Iran.
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USA
Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault
16 August, byTEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.
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Latin America
The spectre of the far right is haunting Latin America
15 August, byFar-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.
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Spanish State
Ceuta: the boundary of the right to have rights
14 August, byLast Friday [31 July], thousands of people swam across the border to reach the autonomous city of Ceuta. This enclave of some 83,000 people received, in a matter of 24 hours, just over 50,000 more people, exhausted from a migratory journey that has caused the deaths of at least 100 in the last two days. In summer, arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla by sea increase significantly, as sea fog hinders early detection on the coast by the Civil Guard. But no one in the government seemed to foresee a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, with significant political repercussions that extend far beyond the usual media headlines.
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Ukraine
The Wrong Lever: Europe, Ukraine, and the Refugee Question
13 August, byEU leaders are moving towards removal of asylum rights for Ukrainian men aged 23-60, to improve conscription and functioning of essential services in the fifth year of Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialist aggression. The Zelenskiy government asked for this change. But that does not make the policy right.
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Recently posted Features
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Socialist feminism
Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
12 August 2013, byread article...This article was written as the prologue to the English-language edition of Cinzia Arruzza’s book Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism published jointly by Merlin Press, Resistance Books and the IIRE in March 2013.
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Latin America
Feminism to the tune of the cumbia, corrida, tango, cueca, samba . . .
12 August 2013, byread article...This long article was published in International Marxist Review Vol 2, Number 4 in 1987. It was the background work for the resolution adopted at the 1991 World Congress Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents-Latin American Women’s Liberation after extensive travel around Latin America by the author.
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Women and work
Women and work in Western Europe
12 August 2013, byread article...This article was first published in International Marxist Review Vol 2, No 2 in Spring 1987. It is republished here as part of our effort to build an archive of contributions from within the Fourth International on questions of feminism.
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Obituary
Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013): a militant surgeon and an internationalist
23 July 2013, byread article...Jean-Michel had a sense of humour, and his passion was to play the violin. From 1948, when he joined the French Communist Party (PCF), he conducted revolutionary choirs and continued to do so unceasingly, including during the summer universities of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). Sometimes he lost some of his humour when singers suggested modernizing the repertoire; he remained very much attached to the traditions of the labour movement. He had courage, as evidenced by the periods he spent in the maquis in Vietnam and Thailand. He participated in major events such as the Russell Tribunal against war crimes in Vietnam. He did not grudge taking on the most obscure militant tasks: right to the end, he devoted his attention to correcting the articles published in the magazine Inprecor.
