International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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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Spanish state
Because it won’t be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?
17 June, by Daniel AlbarracínThe blackout of April 28 shook the Iberian Peninsula and southern France for several hours. Everyone who lives there was affected in some way. It has been a topic of conversation that, to avoid remaining an anecdote, requires some in-depth analysis, given the systemic risks of a repeat. We must draw lessons for the future.
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USA
No Kings! Freedom! Millions Protest Trump across the United States
16 June, by Dan La BotzAt least five million people participated in 2,000 “No Kings Day” protests in big cities and small towns in all 50 states, the largest yet in a series of national demonstrations. In a festive but defiant spirit, with bands and drummers, the marchers chanted, sang songs, and waved their signs with slogans like “No Kings since 1776” or signs opposing President Donald Trump’s attacks on health care, food programs for children and the elderly, or his attacks on education and science. Some banners read “Fight Oligarchy.”
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Portugal
Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections
15 June, by Daniel BorgesThe results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections on 18 May 2025 mark a turning point in the country’s politics. The traditional right was comfortably in the lead and the Socialist Party has fewer deputies than the far right (after counting the votes of the emigrant constituencies). The right-wing parties as a whole won two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, while the left obtained the lowest result in its history.
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USA
The battle of Los Angeles
14 June, by Tempest CollectiveAs "No Kings" protests take place across the US - and in other cities worldwide such as Mexico DF, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - challenging Trump’s authoritarian rule, we publish this on the spot account of last weekend in Los Angeles.
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Ukraine
Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...
13 June, by Gin Vola, Elias VolaResistance to the Russian invasion has not erased class divisions within Ukrainian society. The inequalities of our capitalist societies and the brutal neoliberalism applied by the Zelensky government are significantly affecting the population of Ukraine. The popular classes thus fight on a "double front", against anti-social policies and imperialist aggression.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Serbia
Student protest in Serbia: “either we stop or there will be a civil war”
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Italy
Left fails to win its referendums in Italy
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South Sudan
Peace under threat in South Sudan
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USA
As Immigration Protests Grow, Trump Calls Out National Guard
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Yemen
The women’s uprising in Yemen
Recently posted Features
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Series : 70 years since Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF (Part 1)
Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
28 July 2014, by Éric Toussaintread article...70 years ago, July 22 1944, the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, better known as the Bretton Woods [1] Conference, that had lasted for three weeks, reached a conclusion.}} It was attended by representatives from 44 countries [2].
In order to prevent a recurrence of economic crises like the crash of 1929, but also to ensure world leadership in the post-war era, the United States government began to plan for the creation of international financial institutions as early as 1941. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund saw the light of day at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Initially, the Roosevelt administration was in favour of creating strong institutions capable of imposing rules on the private financial sector, including Wall Street. But noticing the hostility of the banking world Roosevelt backed down. Indeed, the distribution of votes within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund clearly illustrates the will of certain major powers to exert domination over the rest of the world.
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Our history
Women and the Early Years of Japanese Communism
15 July 2014read article...Shomi Yoon gave this talk as part of Marxism 2014 in Melbourne.
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Civil Rights movement
Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
9 July 2014, by Marty Oppenheimerread article...Just two weeks after the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, four girls aged 11-14 — Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair — died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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France
“We are the heirs of May 68”
1 July 2014, by Alain Krivine, Daniel Bensaïdread article...This chapter from the book Mai Si! Rebelles et repentis by Daniel Bensaïd and Alain Krivine was first published in English in International Marxist Review Volume 3 number 2, Autumn 1988.
India
On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran
Radical Socialist Statement
June 2025
Radical Socialist endorses the statement of the Fourth International issued on 13th June on the current Israeli war of aggression against Iran. Hence, we are reproducing the statement below. At the same time, we want our readers, especially in India, to note strongly certain concerns, some briefly mentioned in the FI statement, others specific to the Indian context.
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Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group
June 2025
UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.
USA
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
Statement by the Solidarity National Committee
June 2025
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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End the blockade of Gaza !
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International.
June 2025
“A massive worldwide mobilization to put an end to this genocide.”
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Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
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