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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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  • Mali

    A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

    31 May, by Paul Martial

    The ban on political parties in Mali is a further step in the consolidation of a dictatorship incapable of curbing jihadist attacks. From now on, all political parties in Mali will be dissolved. This was a recommendation of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the legislative body set up by the junta that seized power in 2021.

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  • Britain

    Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game

    30 May, by Simon Hannah

    When Keir Starmer was standing for Labour leader in 2020 after Jeremy Corbyn resigned, his slogan was “Another World is Possible”. This was a call back to the ideals and hope of the anti capitalist movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s before 9/11 made our world more reactionary, more dangerous, more cynical. As part of his bid for leadership to win over a membership that had only recently elected Corbyn twice over, Starmer gave a speech in which he outlined his view on immigration; “We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of migrants… we have to make the case for the benefits of migration”.

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  • Portugal

    Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

    29 May, by Left Bloc

    National Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.

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  • South Africa

    South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

    28 May, by Collective

    The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump’s sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who’s seeking to extort favorable concessions for his Starlink operation in South Africa.

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  • Madagascar

    Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy

    27 May, by Paul Martial

    Affirming France’s presence in the Indian Ocean was the aim of French president Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Madagascar on 23-24 April, 2025.The Grande Île is unique in that it is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is governed by billionaires who do not hesitate to provoke serious crises in order to gain power. The French president was received by Madagascar’s president. Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey who has made a career in events management.

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  • France

    “We are the heirs of May 68”

    1 July 2014, by Alain Krivine, Daniel Bensaïd

    This chapter from the book Mai Si! Rebelles et repentis by Daniel Bensaïd and Alain Krivine was first published in English in International Marxist Review Volume 3 number 2, Autumn 1988.

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  • 
Literature and feminism

    The personal and the political

    22 May 2014, by Megan Behrent

    It is no longer possible to ignore that voice, to dismiss the desperation of so many American women. This is not what being a woman means, no matter what the experts say. For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough. . . . The women who suffer this problem have a hunger that food cannot fill. . . . We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: “I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.”

    —Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 [1]

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  • Spanish State:

    Economic Crisis, and the New Enclosure of the Reproductive Commons

    22 May 2014, by Sandra Ezquerra

    In the past few years numerous authors have examined how the current economic crisis in Spain has differential impacts on women and men

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  • The roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution

    26 April 2014, by Joseph Daher

    In a series commemorating the uprising’s third anniversary, Syrian revolutionary activist Joseph Daher answers key questions still circulating in the western digital commons. In this first part he offers us a short history of the socio-economic causes behind the protests that sprang up across Syria in March 2011.

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