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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6 October, byA month of elections gives this issue its spine, with the far right as the measure of every result.
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Spanish state
Class, the protests: Notes on the social explosion over housing
6 October, by ,“The social tension that housing introduces into the lives of the majority has become political tension thanks to the successful intervention of the Tenants’ Union, the eviction of Maricarmen as a foundational event and the pressure in the street. Today, Spanish politics is inevitably moving towards another moment and the vote in Congress is a step in that transition.”
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USA
Latinos May Decide the Midterms, Defeating Trump and the Republicans
5 October, byDonald Trump arguably won the 2024 presidential election because between 42 and 48 percent of the country’s Latinos voted for him. His was the largest Republican share ever of the Latino vote. In the last two years, however, Latinos have turned against Trump, as seen both in their participation in social protests and in pre-election polls. Latinos could cost Trump and the Republicans the election.
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Morocco
Morocco’s Elections in a Time of Despotism: Why Ballot Boxes Don’t Produce Liberation
4 October, by“Today, I believe that Morocco is experiencing a form of political insanity in the Einsteinian sense. The elections on September 23 showcased the same familiar faces that have worn thin on the Moroccan public, accompanied by the same broken promises and poorly executed theatrics. Furthermore, it is the Ministry of the Interior that oversees the entire electoral process—from drawing constituency maps to organising the vote itself. ”
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Environment
NATO, the climate crisis and the ecosocialist emergency
3 October, byGippo Mukendi Ngandu, a member of the leadership of the Fourth International, spoke at the anti-imperialist conference NoToNATO to present the links between war and the climate crisis, and to propose the answers put forward in our Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution.
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China/US
Leftist studies in China and the United States
20 May, by ,read article...“Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”
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Relaunching the Battle of Ideas on the Italian Left
20 May, by ,read article...Italy’s hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d’Italia remains the country’s leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)
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Middle East
Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate
11 May, by , ,read article...“The deepening climate emergency means that we need to put upfront the question of the climate and the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels. The Middle East is absolutely key to this because it sits at the centre of the world oil and gas industry, particularly in relation to global exports. The politics of the region – from Palestine to Iran – cannot be understood separate from this role of the Middle East in the global energy system.”
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Geopolitics
Faultlines in a new epoch of crisis: Imperial rivalry, authoritarianism, and resistance
11 May, byread article...“This new epoch of crisis, imperialist rivalry, authoritarianism, and resistance is opening up space for the construction of a new socialist Left. Indeed, all political organizations are now growing from reformism to neo-Stalinism and revolutionary socialism. The struggle is on to shape a new generation’s politics, strategies, and tactics for an epoch of crisis and class struggle.”
