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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 Kellaway

    The 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 Rousset

    Once 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 Botz

    May 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 Martial

    The 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 Luis

    José 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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  • Music

    Beethoven: The first rocker

    30 November 2020, by Angela Klein

    Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth in December 1770 what is the relevance of this great composer?

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  • Marxism

    Engels: theorist of war, theorist of revolution

    30 November 2020, by Gilbert Achcar

    On the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels we republish this appreciation.

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  • Obituary

    “What does Rossana say?”

    25 October 2020, by Salvatore Cannavò

    Rossana Rossanda, who died on 20 September 2020, played an important role in the Italian communist left, first within the Communist Party - from which she was expelled in 1969 - then as director of the newspaper Il Manifesto until 2012.It is said that for a long time in Il Manifesto, a historical communist newspaper, the following refrain was heard: “Is Valentino there?” Is Luigi writing? What does Rossana say?” This trio consisted of Valentino Parlato, Luigi Pintor and Rossana Rossanda. The last of the three left us yesterday at the age of 96, after a long life in the camp of the left and the communist ideals for which she fought. Always defeated in the end.

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  • Women in the Middle East

    The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East

    25 October 2020, by Kumari Jayawardena

    For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

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