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.
Recently posted Features
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Interview
“It is time to define the strategy”
11 October 2009, byread article...The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, a revolutionary of ideas from the anti-capitalist left, has just published his In Praise of Profane Politics, a dense and complex work through which this thinker hopes to contribute to a counter attack by the transformative left which can take ordinary people out of a never ending crisis.
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Against Tolerance
Islam, sexuality, and the politics of belonging in the Netherlands
8 June 2009, byread article...Sex seems to play a key role in the Dutch politics of belonging. Sex – especially homosexuality – is instrumentalized by the nationalist right who uses it to represent immigrants as ‘strangers’ who threaten tolerant, modern, Dutch society. Tolerance, power, and xenophobia come to be increasingly entwined in the Netherlands. A plea against ‘tolerance’ as the foundation for political and social struggle.
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”We will storm the sky and the whole earth”
Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
29 September 2008, byread article...“Workers – men and women – of the world, unite under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”
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Working class, social movement, alliances - and the limits of radical democracy
Hegemony and United Front
13 November 2007, byread article...How is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements?
