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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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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Ecology
A critique of the ecosocialist manifesto of the Parti de Gauche
24 March 2013, by Daniel Tanuroread article...Daniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) [1]. In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to the crucial debate on the necessary ecosocialist strategy.
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Britain
Socialist Feminism: Hidden from history
7 March 2013, by Terry Conwayread article...It is usual that for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution — in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event. On other occasions we have looked at the role that women are playing in struggles today abroad as well as at home.
In this article I am doing something a bit different — to start to celebrate the role that socialist feminists played in second wave feminism in Britain. -
The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)
7 March 2013, by John Riddellread article...The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders.
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Obituary
Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013
7 March 2013, by Linda Gordonread article...Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s. Over the course of 50 years, a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians created a field with thousands of PhDs. The field expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College in 1972 to the presence of Women’s History faculty in the great majority of U.S. colleges and universities.
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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