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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Lebanon
Georges has returned, Ziad has left us!
5 August, by Nicolas Dot-PouillardOn 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, son of the legendary couple Fairouz and Assi Rahbani, took his last breath in a hospital in the Hamra district of Beirut. The Lebanese – and Arab – left is moving from euphoria to tears.
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Panama
Protests follow arrest of union leaders in Panama
4 August, by José CambraWorkers and indigenous peoples are mobilizing against the neoliberal agenda of the government of president José Raúl Mulino in Panama. Antônio Neto, from the Brazilian magazine Movimento, interviewed José Cambra on 27 June 2025 about the reasons for the movement, the relationship with US imperialism and the elements of the program of rupture that has become a symbol of popular resistance against austerity and authoritarianism.
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Ukraine
Corruption (Ukraine): a victory
3 August, by Patrick Silberstein“For our part, we will know, with the Ukrainian left and the social movement, to walk on both legs as we have done since the beginning of the large-scale war.”
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Netherlands
Polski Strajk: first strike amongst temporary workers, mainly Polish migrant workers, in AH and Jumbo distribution centres
2 August, by John Cozijn“Precarious and migrant workers constitute an important part of the working class, often difficult to organise. The success of this strike can give a boost to this work. It is therefore essential to organise solidarity to support and strengthen the strike.”
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Syria
Suweida Under Fire: The Consolidation of Power in Damascus, and Sectarianism
1 August, by Joseph Daher“In this context, the recent events in Suweida demonstrate, once again, that Syria is not experiencing a democratic and inclusive political transition. Rather, it is a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime, structured and led by HTS, under the guise of institutional and international legitimacy.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Palestine
The Mirage of a Palestinian State
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Britain
New Left party – an historic opportunity?
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Africa
Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath
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Iran
The Islamic Republic at the end of its tether
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Namibia
Colonial violence in Namibia
Recently posted Features
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Turkey
Erdo?an’s Victory by Violence
8 January 2016, by Guney I??kara, Alp Kayserilio?lu, & Max Zirngastread article...The right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) is back in power, having easily won a clear majority of members of parliament (MPs) in the Turkish elections. While President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s party did not reach the necessary number of MPs to change the constitution and push through his desired presidential system, the AKP, their talking heads, and their media (just recently expanded through the seizure of more opposition media outlets) will put the issue back on the agenda. Indeed, they have already begun: one of Erdo?an’s senior advisors, Yi?it Bulut, said in his statement celebrating the AKP’s electoral victory, “Welcome, presidential system!”
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Sexual politics
Tearing Down the Walls
28 December 2015, by Keegan O’Brienread article...Forty-six years ago patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular New York City gay bar, fought back against abusive police, and in doing so launched the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement.
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Daniel Bensaïd
“Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”
2 December 2015, by Darren Rosoread article...This paper on the political writings of Daniel Bensaïd was given at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2015.
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Africa
New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa
29 October 2015, by Jean Nangaread article...The decolonization that began in the 1940s was essentially a passage towards neocolonialism, a mutation of the former colonies, a reconfiguration of the mechanisms of domination and exploitation by both the former colonial powers and other capitalists of the centre. It was necessary to adapt to the new balance of power on the international stage (the new economic-military hierarchy, the “Cold War”) in both the colonial metropolises and the colonial territories. Three or four decades later, the disappearance of the so-called “communist” camp gave rise to a restructuring of the world order based on the dynamic of the neoliberalisation of capitalism that had been set in motion in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is characterized by a permanent strengthening of the global hold of capital on the world (globalization) and a dynamic of abolition of the “private estate” (concerning the former French colonies), the “backyard” (Latin America for the United States), etc., which were said to limit the free movement of capital, hitherto considered as an intrusion.
Ukraine
You give us corruption, we give you revolution!
Statement by Sotsialnyi Rukh
July 2025
Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.
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Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference
July 2025
“we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism – placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority.”
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Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!
June 2025
While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes’ and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic’, what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.
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Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran
June 2025
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:
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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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