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.
“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?”
read article...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.
read article...America had two previous political purges of the left, the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, and now we’re in the midst of the Trump purge—and it’s worse than the earlier ones.
read article...On February 2025, from the Turkish island of Imrali where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, “Apo” (uncle) as he is affectionately known to the Kurds, called for the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and an end to the armed struggle in Turkey. The stunned reaction of some international opinion showed the extent to which the PKK’s political evolution had been ignored.
read article...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.
read article...What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision — whether implicit or explicit — of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
I will begin my intervention on the subject of the long-term solution with some rapid remarks about the last savage war in Gaza. It is a coincidence, tragic, certainly, but at the same time useful, considering that this war took place only a few weeks before the holding of this seminar which brings us together today.
Chris Harman, leader of the British SWP, accepted an invitation to participate in the Economists’ seminar organised by the IIRE, bringing together leading economists and members of the Fourth International. On that occasion he gave this contribution.
This report deals with the evolution of the non-Islamic national movement since the end of the 1980s.
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
- read article...The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!
- read article...The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.
- read article...Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)
- read article...Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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