Fourth International statement “8 March: Long Live Women in Struggle Against the Far Right”. Sotsialnyi Rukh makes a “Call for 8 March demonstration in Kyiv 2026” while Dianne Feeley remembers “Last Year’s International Women’s Day, Ukraine”. Ingrid Darroman highlights “France: 1995 - the feminist conquest of the social movement” and Radical Socialist considers “8th March and Revolutionary Socialism”.
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.
-
Sweden
Nooshi – do you dare to do as Spain’s Social Democrats have done?
7 March, by“What kind of leader is Nooshi, who does not dare to take a ‘clear and unambiguous’ stance like the Spanish Social Democrats, whom she herself often praises?.”
read article... -
Pakistan–Afghanistan War
A war neglected by the world — Afghanistan and Pakistan
6 March, byThe recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been overshadowed by the attack on Iran by U.S. and Israeli imperialism. Yet the Afghan-Pakistan war, which began 21-22 February 2026 has resulted in heavy causalities on both sides. It was launched by the Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on Eastern Afghanistan (Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces).
read article... -
Venezuela
In the time of predators
5 March, by , ,The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.
read article... -
Algeria
Lyes Touati released, a victory for popular solidarity
4 March, byImprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.
read article... -
Russia/Africa
When Russia draws its cannon fodder from Africa
3 March, byVictims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.
read article...
Recently posted Features
-
Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs
Dialectics and Revolution
11 September 2006, byread article...There seems to exist an intimate link between the dialectical method and revolutionary theory: not by chance, the high period of revolutionary thinking in the XXth century, the years 1905-1925, are also those of some of the most interesting attemps to use the hegelo-marxist dialectics as an instrument of knowledge and action. Let me try to illustrate the connexion between dialectics and revolution in the thought of three distinct Marxist figures : Leon D. Trotsky, Vladimir I. Lenin and György Lukacs.
-
Permanent Revolution
The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
9 September 2006, byread article...Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), was one of the most astonishing political breakthroughs in Marxist thinking at the begining of the XXth century.
-
The persistence of revolution
The Mole and the Locomotive
8 September 2006, byread article...Daniel Bensaid reflects on the persistance of resistance and revolution at times when the power of capitalism seems unstoppable and overwhelming.
-
Marxism and classical sociology
Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
31 August 2006, byread article...Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] replace personal relations of dependence, and where the accumulation of capital becomes an end in itself and, by and large, irrational.
