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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
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-MolinaA 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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USA
Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”
2 June, by Dan La BotzAmerica 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.
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Kurdistan
Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives
1 June, by Mireille CourtOn 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.
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Mali
A dictatorship without complexes in Mali
31 May, by Paul MartialThe 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.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Britain
Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game
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Portugal
Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election
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South Africa
South African Union Responds to White House Debacle
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Madagascar
Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy
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USA
Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt
Recently posted Features
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Palestine Solidarity
Current challenges for the solidarity movement
30 January 2010, by Cinzia Nachiraread article...The reaction in Europe to the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip has revealed many steps forward in Europe, but also many problems and difficult tasks either for the “specific” solidarity movement with Palestine, or for the social movement more generally.
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Economic crisis
The free fall is over, but... The crisis continues
27 January 2010, by Joel Geierread article...Joel Geier contributed his view of the economic crisis to the IIRE economists’ seminar in a report based on this article.
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Daniel Bensaïd
The powers of communism
20 January 2010, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...This essay was probably among the last written by Daniel Bensaïd. It appears in the latest issue of Contretemps, the journal of which Daniel was one of three publishing editors. The piece is a contribution to a series of essays on the meaning of communism put together as part of a symposium on the same topic being held in Paris on January 22nd and 23rd. Daniel was looking forward to the symposium.
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Economic crisis
Global crisis and the policy reaction in Western and Eastern European Union
18 January 2010, by Özlem Onaranread article...This article is based on the report given at the IIRE Economists’ seminar in October 2009. It examines European Union policy response to the crisis.
Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
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The Fourth International’s Youth Camp
May 2025
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!
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Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor
May 2025
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.
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On the Ongoing India-Pakistan Conflict and the Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir
May 2025
Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)
- read article...Ukraine-USA deal
Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?
May 2025
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.
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