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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
The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world
16 December, by Ana C. CarvalhaesOpenly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump’s national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.
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USA
Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract
15 December, by Dan La BotzThousands of Starbucks workers continue their fight for a union contract with strikes and rallies across the country. The latest strike began on November 13 and continues off-and-on at stores across the country. In mid-December some 3,800 Starbucks baristas were on strike at more than 180 stores in over 130 cities. The union, Starbucks Workers United claims a total 14,000 members at about 650 stores.
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France
1995, the year of the social movement
14 December, by Hélène Adam“Thirty years ago, the largest mass mobilization since May 68 thwarted the Juppé Plan, the public sector pension plan, and clearly stood in defence of a model of society based on solidarity and public service.”
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Syria
Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition
13 December, by Joseph DaherSyria’s post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Indonesia
Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power
12 December, by Pierre RoussetCyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny.
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A week after the cyclone passed, it is still impossible to measure the full extent of the devastation in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. At least 961 people have lost their lives, with nearly 300 still missing, over 156,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, (…)
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Ukraine
Fighting for the Least Unjust Peace
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International Anti-Fascist Conference
Launch of the International Committee for the Anti-Fascist and for the Sovereignty of Peoples Conference
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Morocco
GenZ 212 movement in Morocco
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USA
Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance
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Poland
Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland
Recently posted Features
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Internationalism
Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism
21 November 2018, by Catherine Samaryread article...As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.
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Pakistan
50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution
21 November 2018, by Lal Khanread article...Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.
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Fourth International
Livio Maitan: History wrinkle-free
16 November 2018, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...Daniel Bensaïd wrote the Preface to Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente published in 2006.
Resistance Books and the IIRE have launched an appeal to fiund publication in English. It has almost reached the first goal of 5,000 euros, thanks to a substantial donation in the form of translation work.
To give an idea of the book, and of the person of Livio, we publish here the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s preface.
We hope to raise 1,000 euros more to pay for the design and promotion of the book. Details on how to make a donation can be found below.
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Syria
The Syrian revolution and the failure of the “anti-imperialist” left
22 October 2018, by Kostas Kousiantas, Pantelis Afthinosread article...This article was written after the bombing of Syrian military installations carried out by US, UK and French military forces on April 14th 2018 and before the attack by the Assad regime against Dara’a began.
Algeria
Petition to lift the block on the defence of Samir Larabi’s doctoral thesis
December 2025
Samir LARABI, a doctoral student in the Sociology Department of Abderahmane Mira University in Béjaia (Algeria), has been subjected to repeated obstructions for 29 months, following abusive refusals by the rectoral administration to allow him to defend his doctoral thesis. Validated by his research supervisor, the validity of his thesis has been confirmed three times by the scientific bodies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite validation by the faculty’s Scientific Committee of the changes imposed by the rectoral administration, the latter persists in refusing to allow him to defend his thesis.
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Urgent Call for Solidarity: Support Sri Lanka’s Flood and Landslide Relief Efforts 2025
December 2025
“This is not simply a humanitarian appeal—it is a call to uphold our shared global commitment to justice, dignity, and collective care. As climate disasters intensify, international leftist solidarity remains essential to ensure that working people everywhere can survive, rebuild, and continue the struggle for a more just world.”
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First preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference
November 2025
The organizing committee holds the first preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference.
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Palestinian COP30 coalition demands
November 2025
For nearly two years, Israel has waged a livestreamed genocide against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza and across historic Palestine, devastating lives, land, and ecosystems. UN experts have described Israel’s crimes as including domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and ecocide. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
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We denounce the arrest and prosecution of 15 students and demand their acquittal of all charges
October 2025
On the night of October 13th to 14th, at 2 a.m., by order of the Dean of the National Technical University of Athens, heavily armed special police forces, unprovoked and provocatively, invaded the historic site of the Polytechnic and arrested 15 students.
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