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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G7 summit
The G7: the imperialist order under Trump’s leadership
9 July, byHeld in the shadow of Donald Trump, the G7 summit served above all to confirm the alignment of Western powers with US strategic and energy interests. Behind the declarations of principle, this summit points to strengthened imperialist cooperation, still built on the backs of the people.
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Kenya
Resisting “green capitalism” in Kenya
8 July, by“Carbon credits enable multinationals to offset their carbon dioxide emissions by funding environmental projects. In Kenya, the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) specialises in this type of activity. It manages ‘conservancies’, i.e. areas set aside for this purpose.”
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Ecosocialism
Many Fronts, One Struggle: A Report on the 7th International Ecosocialist Encounters
7 July, by“An opening debate on geopolitics drew the connection sharply: the Green Deal had been left largely to capital and had offered working people, and the poorest layers in particular, very little. It is precisely into that gap that the far right thrusts. It frames environmental policy as an assault on ordinary people and wins terrain the left has long vacated.”
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USA
Trump Campaigns on Anti-Communism as Left Opponents Are Indicted
6 July, by“The previous two Red Scares strengthened right-wingers in both the Democratic and Republican Parties and drove many leftists underground or out of the movement. While we don’t know what Trump’s Red Scare will do, it has to be seen as a serious threat to the left, to the unions, and to the social movements.”
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Venezuela
215 years after Venezuela’s Declaration of Independence: Long live the republic
5 July, byThe massive demonstrations of popular solidarity following the earthquakes that shook the country on June 24 have once again shown us that no hardship can destroy the moral and spiritual foundation that defines us as a nation. We have responded to the destructive and deadly seismic energy with the restorative energy of humanity. With the same unyielding spirit that our Liberator Simón Bolívar displayed in the face of the earthquake of March 26, 1812, we will overcome this painful situation, and with the same resolve of yesterday and today, all patriotic forces will fight to regain our independence.
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Recently posted Features
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Russia
Why Russia’s ruling class is obsessed with the West
12 February, byread article...Vladimir Putin and his ruling elite are obsessed with the West “which is simultaneously seen as both the main adversary and the only potential partner”, […] that obsession has “its roots in the reactionary legacy of the Russian Empire”.
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Imperialism
Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump’s Warmongering
12 February, by ,read article...While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.
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Venezuela
Venezuela after the coup
12 February, by ,read article...“Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.”
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Serbia
Serbia: Regime Crisis, Imperialist Dependence and Struggles for Self-Determination
28 January, byread article...Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region.
