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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Greece
Deaths to order
27 February, by“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”
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Palestine
Israel’s International Prison Policies
26 February, by ,As colonization and repression intensify in Palestine, Israeli prison policy is reaching an unprecedented level. Mass arrests, torture, arbitrary detentions and the international extension of repressive measures are part of a globalized colonial system.
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Ukraine
A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.
25 February, by ,Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.
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Japan
Landslide Victory For The Ruling LDP Party in the General Election
24 February, byWhat Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?
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USA
Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon
23 February, by“Jesse Jackson was a hero to millions. Even those of us on the socialist left praised his integrity and outspoken views on issues like Black Lives Matter and police violence.”
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Recently posted Features
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Strategy
Elements of revolutionary strategy
2 July 2007, byread article...With the development of the revolutionary process in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the sharp left debates and divisions on overall strategy in countries like Brazil, France and Italy, the issue of revolutionary strategy is coming back on the agenda.
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France
The French elections and our strategic project
28 April 2007, byread article...A long interview on the political project of revolutionary marxists, with an introduction reflecting on the outcome of the first round of the French presidential elections on 20 April 2007.
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France
“The Presidential campaign is rotting French political life”
11 February 2007, byread article...The failure of the anti-neoliberal left in France to agree a united candidate for the coming presidential elections has caused great controversy. For some leftists the LCR shares the blame, for refusing to back any candidate who is equivocal about participation in a ’left’ government with the neoliberal Socialist Party. Daniel Bensaïd explains the LCR’s intransigence on this point - and the damage being done to the French body politic by the campaign.
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A new debate is opening
The Return of Strategy
2 February 2007, byread article...In the light of developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Italy and France, a new debate is developing. According to Bensaid the ’utopian moment’ of the Global Justice Movement in the early part of the decade is being replaced with a more hard-headed grappling with political strategy.
