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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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  • Yemen

    The women’s uprising in Yemen

    8 June, by Luiza Toscane

    Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.

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  • Italy

    Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

    7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista

    Italy 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 Achcar

    What 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 Fernandez

    On 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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  • In Memoriam

    Michel Lequenne (1921-2020): A very particular Trotskyist

    16 February 2020, by Michael Löwy

    Michel Lequenne died on 13 February 2020, at almost 99 years old.He was a singular, atypical Trotskyist, an outstanding character, by the strength of his convictions, his polemical verve, his extraordinary – self-taught! – political, literary, artistic and historical culture, his propensity for dissent, his fidelity to the legacy of Red October.

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  • Our History

    Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918

    16 February 2020, by Éric Toussaint

    In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.

    This decision of repudiation was intrinsic to this first big movement for social emancipation which rattled the Russian Empire in 1905. This huge revolutionary uprising was caused by the conjunction of many factors: the Russian debacle in its war with Japan, the wrath of peasants demanding land, the rejection of autocracy, workers’ demands... The movement began with strikes in St Petersburg in 1905 and soon spread throughout the empire like wildfire, adopting different forms of struggle.

    Out of the process of self-organization by the masses emerged councils, or soviets in Russian: peasants’ councils, workers’ councils, soldiers’ councils and so on.

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  • Holocaust

    1990: “Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide”

    27 January 2020, by Ernest Mandel

    This is the text of Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., Révision de l’Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et génocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74.
    The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232.

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  • An Unrepentant ’68er’s Life

    19 January 2020, by Kay Mann

    An Impatient Life by Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach
    Foreword by Tariq Ali.Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages.

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