Marc Bonhomme considers ”After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis”, Tempest investigates “Inside Die Linke ” and Alex De Jong explains how “Indonesia’s Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity”.
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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.
- 7 June – Parties of the left
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Italy
Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws
7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra AnticapitalistaItaly votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.
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Palestine
Pity the people of Gaza!
6 June, by Gilbert AchcarWhat we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement’s rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.
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Belgium
Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police
5 June, by Elena Fernandez FernandezOn Monday afternoon, 2 June, in Elisabeth Park in Ganshoren, an 11-year-old child was struck and killed by a police vehicle. Another one. Once again, a young person has lost their life in a police operation. Once again, run over by a police officer. And once again, the institutions react coldly, relaying a version of events that incriminates the victim, while those responsible hide behind complicit investigations that generally lead nowhere.
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USA
Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder
4 June, by Malik Miah“His murder led to nationwide and international protests and a reexamination of societal and institutional racism, including policing. Five years later what is the legacy of Floyd’s death and movement for justice and police accountability?”
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Panama
Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America
3 June, by José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-MolinaA small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”
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Kurdistan
Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives
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Mali
A dictatorship without complexes in Mali
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Britain
Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game
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Portugal
Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
An Appreciation of Neil Davidson (1957-2020)
11 May 2020, by George Kerevanread article...Socialist Resistance and supporters of the Fourth International were deeply saddened by the recent death of Scottish Marxist writer and activist Neil Davidson from a brain tumour.
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Marxism
Why doesn’t official Russian historical politics need the real Lenin and how is his method relevant at a time of crisis
10 May 2020, by Ilya Budraitskisread article...“The (Russian) state needs a Lenin shorn of his political ideas and real biographies, a Lenin-monument. Whenever he becomes a true Lenin, a rebel and destroyer of the old order, the authorities automatically begin to regard him as a monster.”—says the historian and political theorist Ilya Budraitskis. In this comprehensive interview, conducted in Russian by Marine Voskanian for Business-Online and most generously translated for LeftEast by Sean Guillory, Budraitskis explains how Lenin was a heretic for the socialists of his time, and why demanding greater redistribution doesn’t necessarily mean being a leftist.
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Obituary
Remembering George Shriver
10 May 2020, by Paul Le Blancread article...George Shriver was born in India in 1936 of missionary parents. He died April 24, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona. Having joined the Socialist Workers’ Party in his 20s, he was a lifelong Fourth Internationalist.
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Obituary
Pierre Granet has left us
9 May 2020read article...Pierre Granet was born on 6 Septembre 1949 in Marseilles and died on 2 May 2020 in Toulouse. He became politically active as a high-school student in Cannes from 1963, notably in soldiarity with the Algerian revolution . He rapidly joined the JCR and the PCI, then French section of the Fourth International, and remained an active militant until the end of his life, as member of the LCR then the NPA. This tribute was written by his comrades from Toulouse.
Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
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The Fourth International’s Youth Camp
May 2025
The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!
- read article...India/Pakistan
Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor
May 2025
The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.
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On the Ongoing India-Pakistan Conflict and the Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir
May 2025
Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)
- read article...Ukraine-USA deal
Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?
May 2025
Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.
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