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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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Russia
“What did each of us do to stop this nightmare?”
8 June, by Igor PaskarThe final statement in court by Igor Paskar, a Russian anti-war protester.
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Syria
Normalizing Bashar al-Assad’s Regime
7 June, by Joseph Daher“Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states are dropping their isolation of Assad merely to stabilize the region under their collective authoritarian rule over brutally unequal societies.”
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Sudan
There Can Be No Peace in Sudan Without the Democratic Empowerment of Its People
6 June, by Muzan Alneel"Resistance committees have combined the slogan ‘no to war’ with practical assistance for the Sudanese people, relying on their own power."
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Oceania
Pro-independence victories in French Polynesia
5 June, by Léon Crémieux“Since it was founded in 1977 around Oscar Temaru, the FLP (Front de libération de la Polynésie), then Tavini huira’atira, has fought for decolonisation and independence for the 300,000 inhabitants of the archipelago known as French Polynesia.”
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Turkey
Hope is shipwrecked: Erdogan’s regime wins again
4 June, by Uraz Aydin“The fight against authoritarianism must be invested with a social, class content. And this goes through the reconstruction of the “subjective factor”, of class consciousness, of the capacity for self-organization of the exploited, of women against patriarchal domination, of the unification of local and migrant workers, Turkish, Kurdish, Syrians and Afghans.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Greece
Many questions after the defeat of the left in Greece
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USA
DeSantis, also a Far-Right Candidate, Challenges Trump for Republican Nomination
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Spanish state
From impasse to the road to reaction: an urgent assessment of the political scenario
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China
For true liberation of LGBTQI people in China
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Pakistan
Khan Against the Generals
Recently posted Debate
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Ukraine and Europe
Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left
22 December 2022, by Catherine Samaryread article...This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.
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War in Ukraine
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcarread article...“The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”
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War in Ukraine
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital
16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewskiread article...“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”
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War in Ukraine
Why Russia’s Political Capitalists Went to War – and How the War Could End Their Rule
4 September 2022, by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat , Volodymyr Ishchenkoread article...Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. However, this war, depending on what happens on the battlefield, may equally bring about a fall or a radical transformation of the whole post-Soviet order. Interview by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat.
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Peru - solidarity
Hugo Blanco’s urgent medical costs
June 2023
Hugo Blanco is currently in hospital in Sweden receiving urgent medical care. He is not entitled to free medical care and the bill is growing daily. He is being cared for by his children but we need help from the international community to cover these costs.
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Against Half-Solidarity and False Pacifism
Statement of the Russian Socialist Movement on May Day
May 2023
“May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war.”
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Macron’s contempt is a call to strengthen mobilization
April 2023
The strongly-contested pension reform forced through by the Macron government was approved by the constitutional council on Friday 14 April and promulgated into law during the night.
Macron then made an address to the population on national television on Monday 17 April. The NPA issued this statement.
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Victory is possible against Macron, his reform and his 49.3!
March 2023
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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Pensions: this Saturday 11 February in the streets! Strikes and blockades until total withdrawal!
NPA statement on Pensions struggle
February 2023
“To win, we must continue to organize, to put maximum pressure by blocking the economy.”
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