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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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Britain
Reform – Labour is feeding the monster
6 May, by Dave KellawayThe centre cannot hold! In the wake of Reform’s massive gains in local elections, Dave Kellaway investigates the new political landscape.
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East Asia
East Asia: War and revolution
5 May, by Pierre RoussetOnce France had been defeated after the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu (1954), the great powers imposed the Geneva Accords, which were highly unfavourable to the Vietminh, temporarily dividing the country into two military regrouping zones.
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USA
May Day in America, is it now here to stay?
4 May, by Dan La BotzMay Day is not a holiday in the United States. In most states and cities, it is not celebrated. In some places, in schools or public parks, people put up a May pole and dance around it to celebrate the arrival of spring. We did that in my elementary school in Chicago when I was a child. The official Labor Day in the United States, which is a national holiday, is celebrated on the first Monday in September and marks the end of summer and students’ return to school. But maybe this year things finally changed.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: against oil industry impunity
3 May, by Paul MartialThe Niger Delta has been totally devastated by decades of oil exploitation in Nigeria by the major Western oil companies. Huge tracts of land and mangrove swamps have been totally contaminated by oil, destroying all living things. People’s livelihoods, such as fishing and farming, have been wiped out. There is no longer any drinking water, and the air is polluted by the dozens of flares that burn continuously.
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Mexico
Mexico: “The right-wing parties are practically in the worst phase of their history”
2 May, by Fabrice Thomas, José LuisJosé Luis is an activist in the Fourth International and a member of the Mexican electricians’ union. He spoke to Fabrice Thomas while visiting Europe for the world congress of the Fourth International.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Zambia
Zambia: people are victims of extractivism
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USA
Trump and America: One-hundred days in the waiting room of fascism
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Argentina
Argentina: opposition to Milei revives
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Greece
Greece: anger in the streets
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USA
Trump reinvents war capitalism
Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Rosa Luxemburg & Trotsky
30 September 2021, by Michael Löwyread article...“This article, if I remember well, was published around 1979 in the French Journal Quatrième Internationale. If I would rewrite it today, I would probably give greater emphasis on the positive side of Rosa Luxemburg’s and young Leon Trotsky’s views on political organization. But I still agree with the essential argument of the paper, bringing together both thinkers, as the guiding inspirations of the Fourth International.” [Author’s note]
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Honduras
Berta Cáceres and her fight against all impunity
17 September 2021, by Ellen Verryt, Peter Veltmansread article...“Life demands us to stay joyful” – Berta Cáceres.
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Islamophobia
Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism
17 September 2021, by Joseph Daherread article...“Leftists must therefore oppose Islamophobic discourse developed and maintained by Western elites, governments and media against Islamic fundamentalist movements and denounce their repression by authoritarian regimes when it is the case in certain countries. But this principled position should not prevent us from supporting and fighting for radical change in MENA societies.”
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Obituary
Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist
17 September 2021, by Hoda Ahmed, Chedid Khairyread article...Reda Ibrahim Farag, a former leader of the Egyptian revolutionary Marxist current, died in Cairo on 4 August 2021. He played an important role in the constitution and leadership of a revolutionary organization from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.
Panama
General Strike in Panama – against extractivism, pension reform and the return of U.S. troops
May 2025
Thousands rallied in Panama City on May Day, in the midst of a general strike against privatisation, copper mining and Donald Trump’s threats to Panamanian sovereignty.
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Democracia Socialista holds its Second Congress
April 2025
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States framed the discussion at the second Congress of Democracia Socialista [section of the Fourth International in Puerto Rico].
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Left-wing parliamentarians send letter to Lula against oil exploration in the Amazon
April 2025
Deputies and councillors from parties such as PT and PSOL call for respect for Ibama’s decision and demand an energy transition plan.
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Ukraine’s Struggle: International Trade Unions Must Act Now
APPEAL OF FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS OF UKRAINE TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
April 2025
APPEAL to the ITUC, ETUC, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD, national trade unions on support of the Strategy of Ukraine on Peace and Security
- read article...India
Radical Socialist Statement on Civilian Killings in Pahalgam
April 2025
At least 26 civilians, mostly tourists, have been brutally and callously killed by militants in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025. Radical Socialist mourns the death of every single civilian, and condemns this terrorist act perpetrated by The Resistance Front that has claimed responsibility for it. It is a senseless attack which is morally unjustifiable and is completely counterproductive politically because it can further stoke and strengthen existing currents of Islamophobia in Indian society and in state apparatuses.
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