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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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  • 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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  • Panama

    Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

    3 June, by José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-Molina

    A 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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  • Women’s liberation:? The Marxist tradition

    15 August 2014, by Sharon Smith

    “If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.”

    —Russian revolutionary Inessa Armand

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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 4)

    SUNFED versus World Bank

    6 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    From 1950 to 1960, having no Marshall Plan to promote their growth, the developing countries proposed that a new UN body be created, based on a “one country, one vote” system designed to facilitate loans to their industries: SUNFED (Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development). The industrialized countries were fiercely opposed to this move, and successfully imposed a counter-proposal, the International Development Association (IDA), a branch of the World Bank, thus effectively putting an end to SUNFED. [1]

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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 3)

    Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem

    6 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    The World Bank and the IMF are specialized institutions of the UN, comparable in theory to the International Labour Organization (ILA) or the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As such, they are supposed to cooperate closely with the various UN bodies and the other specialized institutions to achieve the objectives set out in the Charter and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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  • Series : 70 years since Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF (Part 2)

    The World Bank assists the powerful witch-hunters

    28 July 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    Contrary to common belief, the mission of the World Bank is not to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Bank’s mission, as originally conceived by the victors of the Second World War, the United States and Great Britain in particular, was to help rebuild Europe, and secondarily to promote the economic growth of the countries in the South, many of which were still under colonial rule. It was this second mission that went by the name of “development” and which constantly increased in scope. The World Bank lent money first of all to the colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Belgium) to help them more effectively exploit their colonies. Then, when these colonies became independent, the Bank made them liable for the debt that had only been contracted by their former metropolis in order to better exploit their natural resources and their population.

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