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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Marxism
Sociology of economism, bureaucratism and spontaneity
30 December 2003, byread article...When we emphasised that Lenin’s concept of organisation in reality represents a concept of the current potential for proletarian revolution, we already touched upon the central factor in the Leninist theory of proletarian, class consciousness: the problem of the definition of the revolutionary subject under capitalism.
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Marxism
Scientific intelligentsia, social science and proletarian class consciousness
30 December 2003, byread article...The massive reintroduction of intellectual labour into the process of production brought about by the third industrial revolution, which was foreseen by Marx and whose foundations were already laid in the second industrial revolution, has created the prerequisite for a much broader layer of the scientific intelligentsia to regain the awareness of alienation which it had lost.
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Marxism
Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness
30 December 2003, byread article...Once it is understood that the Leninist theory of organisation tries to answer the problems of the current potential for revolution and of the revolutionary subject, this theory then leads directly to the question of historical pedagogy, i.e., the problem of transforming potential class consciousness into actual class consciousness, and trade-unionist consciousness into political, revolutionary consciousness.
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Revolutionary organizing
1983: Vanguard Parties
28 December 2003, byread article...What do marxists really mean by ’vanguard parties’? How are they built?
