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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Syria
On the Recent Agreement Between Damascus and the Kurdish Administration
3 February, by“There is therefore little doubt that the present compromise has not resolved the conflict but has instead shifted it from a military to a political phase. This new phase will involve a political struggle that continues the war by other means, just as war itself is a continuation of politics by other means, as the maxim goes.”
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Switzerland
Zurich: 3,000 people protest against Trump and the WEF
2 February, by“The strong turnout at this demonstration goes beyond the outrage caused by Trump. It also reflects the fact that more and more people are rebelling against the capitalist economic and social system.”
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USA
National Protests Continue Against ICE and Trump
1 February, byPresident Donald Trump continues ICE raids, arrests of journalists, and seizing election records, as the public turns against him. All of this is about the mid-term election in November, which Republicans could lose.
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Ukraine
Volunteering in Wartime Ukraine
31 January, by“I was especially interested in understanding the specific nature of working-class volunteerism, a topic that is rarely discussed. ”
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Palestine
Kamil Abu Haniesh – leader among Palestinian prisoners
30 January, byToday, thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel – and one of those who spent the longest time behind bars is Abu Haniesh, who has become a symbol of the struggle to which he has devoted his entire life.
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Recently posted Features
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Fourth International and women’s liberation
The Liberation of Women
31 January 2014, byread article...This article was written in May 1960 and originally published in Quatrième Internationale. This translation is from Fourth International, Autumn 1960. We are publishing it as part of our effort to constute an archive of the Fourth International’s writings on women’s liberation.
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Obituary
"We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
29 January 2014, byread article...Tributes are pouring in to honor the memory and legacy of Pete Seeger. Among so many other contributions to the movements for social justice, he was a supporter of the struggle for rank and file union power. Ken Paff, national organizer of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, recalls his support of TDU with a Detroit benefit concert in April, 1985. [Republished from Solidarity January 29, 2014.]
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Political theory
Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
20 January 2014, byread article...The so-called “Leninist” orthodoxy is history, and the campaign that Stalin and his ideologists launched for decades against “Luxemburgism”, which they identified since 1931 with their most hated nightmare, “Trotskyism”, has fallen into oblivion. So we are free to examine the Marxist theories on the structure of the Russian society and the prospects of a revolutionary uprising against the rule of the Czar – written a century ago –, in order to explore the capacity of these theories to present an explanation of the state of affairs – one hundred years ago – and a prognosis of its future development (in and after 1917).
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Queering Socialism:
An Interview with Alan Sears
29 December 2013, byread article...We’re at an interesting (and terrible) moment where we’re witnessing attacks on most every gain working people have made for at least the last half century. The curious exception to that has been the advance of marriage and civil rights for gay and lesbian couples in many U.S. states and core imperialist countries. But while we can celebrate the dismantling of many of the legal barriers to equality, we need to be mindful of the cost assimilation has had on “gay” communities, the movement’s relationship to other progressive causes, and lastly how it measures up to radical ideas of gender and sexual freedom.
