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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Women and party
Sanctions policy in a feminist party
17 January 2013, byread article...The following criteria of internal sanctions in the party, in regard to oppression of women, were approved at the VI National Congress, held from the 1st to the 5th of November 1989 in Mexico.
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India
No Patriarchy, No Police State, No Capital Punishment: A Report on the Rally Against Rape
7 January 2013, byread article...The Delhi gang rape is gruesome. But it does not stand alone. There were 22,000 rapes reported in 2010, and this implies at least 100,000 unreported cases. In the National capital, Delhi, there were around 570 cases reported. West Bengal has about 9,000 cases of rape, where the matter had not begun moving in courts. Rapes, gang rapes, rape as a “political” action (rape of "lower" caste women, rape of minority community women, rape of political opponents) have been taking place continuously. Though India’s political leaders have been claiming stridently that India is forging ahead, that India is one of the new powerhouses of the world, in terms of the violence inflicted on women, in terms of the sheer barbarism of rape, India shows no sign of being a forward looking, civilized country.
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South Africa,
A Liberal Abortion Law Doesn’t Guarantee Access
7 January 2013, by ,read article...This story is part of a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting collaboration between African and American journalists on reproductive health issues. The article appeared in the January 21, 2013 edition of The Nation and we are republishing with the permission of Agence Global.
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Ecosocialism
A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
3 December 2012, byread article...For the first time in history, humanity has to conceive our emancipation under a global ecological constraint, unsurpassable by an increase in labor productivity.
