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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France
"The question of a link between workers and students is immediate"
27 March 2006, byread article...Daniel Bensaid, in this interview with Socialist Worker, reflects on the current battle of the French students and its comparisons with student movements of the past.
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Interview
The party and the period
16 March 2006, byread article...“We are at a turning point, the moment of transition from one cycle to another”
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The fate of revolution in the 20th Century
Stalinism and Bolshevism
16 December 2005, byread article...This article, written for the Italian magazine Erre, reviews how well Trotsky’s 1937 pamphlet stands the test of time in examining the origins of Stalinism - and discusses what needs to be reformulated today.
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The material foundations of opportunism
1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
28 August 2005, byread article...Ernest Mandel wrote this study of the nature of social democracy twelve years ago. Many of the references in it are a little dated, but the article gives valuable insights into the basic character of reformism.
