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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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USA
The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world
16 December, by Ana C. CarvalhaesOpenly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump’s national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.
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USA
Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract
15 December, by Dan La BotzThousands of Starbucks workers continue their fight for a union contract with strikes and rallies across the country. The latest strike began on November 13 and continues off-and-on at stores across the country. In mid-December some 3,800 Starbucks baristas were on strike at more than 180 stores in over 130 cities. The union, Starbucks Workers United claims a total 14,000 members at about 650 stores.
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France
1995, the year of the social movement
14 December, by Hélène Adam“Thirty years ago, the largest mass mobilization since May 68 thwarted the Juppé Plan, the public sector pension plan, and clearly stood in defence of a model of society based on solidarity and public service.”
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Syria
Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition
13 December, by Joseph DaherSyria’s post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Indonesia
Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power
12 December, by Pierre RoussetCyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny.
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A week after the cyclone passed, it is still impossible to measure the full extent of the devastation in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. At least 961 people have lost their lives, with nearly 300 still missing, over 156,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, (…)
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Ukraine
Fighting for the Least Unjust Peace
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International Anti-Fascist Conference
Launch of the International Committee for the Anti-Fascist and for the Sovereignty of Peoples Conference
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Morocco
GenZ 212 movement in Morocco
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USA
Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance
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Poland
Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland
Recently posted Features
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China
The Tyranny of State Productivism – On the 2024 China’s People’s Congress
21 March 2024, by Au Loong-Yuread article...“So the People’s Congress has done a great job, again, in reminding the people that with Xi Jinping as their leader no one should worry about anything – he is so good at eliminating problems by eliminating those who report the problems, as the Chinese saying goes.”
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History
Missak Manouchian: their commemoration and ours
4 March 2024, by Patrick Le Moalread article...“For us, honouring them means understanding the depth of the convictions that guided their actions in France and their participation in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.”
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Obituary
Tribute: Ernesto Herrera (1949-2024)
28 January 2024, by Charles-André Udryread article...A belated tribute to Ernesto Herrera, who died on 10 January 2024. The shock had to be absorbed. A comrade-friend, with a hyphen of fraternity and not of union, in order to respect his personal trajectory.
Born on 22 May 1949, Antonio Maria Nuñez Guglielmi was part of the Spanish and Italian emigration that settled in Uruguay, a country that experienced exceptional growth from 1910 until the early 1950s. An activist, he chose as his pseudonym the name of a writer who, among other things, (…) -
War in Ukraine
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
21 December 2023, by Paul Le Blancread article...A momentous development has drawn my attention away from the unfolding climate catastrophe on which I have been riveted. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major factor fragmenting the left-wing forces I hoped would become a major force in the revolutionary struggle for climate justice and human survival.
Algeria
Freedom for Lyes Touati and all political prisoners
December 2025
Lyes Touati, a member of the Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs (PST), was arrested yesterday in Aokas (Algeria) and remanded in custody. We do not know the reasons for his arrest or the charges against him.
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Petition to lift the block on the defence of Samir Larabi’s doctoral thesis
December 2025
Samir LARABI, a doctoral student in the Sociology Department of Abderahmane Mira University in Béjaia (Algeria), has been subjected to repeated obstructions for 29 months, following abusive refusals by the rectoral administration to allow him to defend his doctoral thesis. Validated by his research supervisor, the validity of his thesis has been confirmed three times by the scientific bodies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite validation by the faculty’s Scientific Committee of the changes imposed by the rectoral administration, the latter persists in refusing to allow him to defend his thesis.
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Urgent Call for Solidarity: Support Sri Lanka’s Flood and Landslide Relief Efforts 2025
December 2025
“This is not simply a humanitarian appeal—it is a call to uphold our shared global commitment to justice, dignity, and collective care. As climate disasters intensify, international leftist solidarity remains essential to ensure that working people everywhere can survive, rebuild, and continue the struggle for a more just world.”
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First preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference
November 2025
The organizing committee holds the first preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference.
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Palestinian COP30 coalition demands
November 2025
For nearly two years, Israel has waged a livestreamed genocide against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza and across historic Palestine, devastating lives, land, and ecosystems. UN experts have described Israel’s crimes as including domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and ecocide. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
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