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.
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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What Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?
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“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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“ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they’re afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.”
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Early 2026 has been turbulent for the Algerian regime, marked by an accumulation of improvisations and tensions creating a state of alert. A series of social and political events have highlighted structural and latent contradictions in governmental affairs management that contradict the president’s triumphalist rhetoric.
read article...A new left party is on the cards in Britain, but it is unclear what is going on behind the scenes. A look at the bigger issues a new party needs to address.
“In the end, the fall of the Islamic Republic, if it is to occur, must in no way be the result of foreign intervention, but that of a popular uprising organized and led by the people themselves.”
The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?
“Erik’s union had a tradition of international solidarity going back to the Vietnam War and 1973 Chilean coup, in which a generation of trade union activists were murdered.”
After 59 days of unjust imprisonment, Lyes Touati has finally been acquitted - 59 days of waiting, mobilization, solidarity and determination.
- read article...20 January by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Walden Bello, Sushovan Dhar, Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Rafael Bernabe, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Gilbert Achcar, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Michael Roberts, Vijay Prashad, Achin Vanaik, Zarah Sultana, Manon Aubry, Annie Ernaux, Ada Colau, Bhaskar Sunkara.
- read article...The International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles is passing on information received from trade union comrades in Venezuela. With Venezuela, as with Palestine, as with Ukraine, as with Sudan, as everywhere else in the world, nothing can replace direct contact between workers. For our social class, it is the best source of information and the best way to build common struggles.
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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