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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Serbia
The EU and green colonialism in Serbia
28 January, byread article...Environmental struggles and protests against the destruction of the natural environment are common in the Balkans, and Serbia is no exception. The most recent and symbolic of these is the protest against the installation of lithium mines in the west of the country. During our trip, we met with an activist from the anti-extractivist collective Marš Sa Drine in a hotel in downtown Belgrade, away from the prying ears of the Vučić regime.
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Ecosocialism
Ruptures: The New Manifesto of the Fourth International
22 January, byread article...The new Manifesto of the Fourth International is available in English from Resistance Books London or the IIRE, Amsterdam. This “Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth”, is a document that marks a new stage in the history of the movement founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.
Since Babeuf’s Manifesto of the Equals (1796) and the Communist Manifesto (1848), many documents of this kind have emerged throughout the history of the workers’ movement. (…) -
Obituary
One of ours: Eleni Varika (1949-2026)
19 January, byread article...“We will miss Eleni very much, because what emanated from her was her deep appreciation of human connections, friendship and life.”
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Obituary
Mohammed Harbi (1933-2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution
15 January, byread article...“[Harbi’s] death on the first day of 2026 means the passing of one of the last eyewitnesses of one of the great anticolonial struggles and the loss of an incisive historian.”
