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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.
- 11 September – Features and a review
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Germany
Germany: A new polarisation is needed
12 September, by Manuel KellnerThe results of the regional elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia on 1 September 2024 indicate a rise in support for the far right which is as overwhelming as in many other countries. What a terrible feeling it is to have to hope that in both Länder a government led by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) can somehow be assembled to confront the far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)!
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World politics
The permanent instability of a system in crisis
11 September, by Antoine LarracheThe last few months have given rise to a succession of local crises of astonishing magnitude. These crises are the occasion for mass movements within which we hope fwiil evolve in ways that attack the system.
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USA
US Presidential Election
10 September, by Kay MannThe US presidential election has been upended this summer by a series of dramatic events that reversed the electoral fortunes of the Democratic and Republican parties while left-wing third-party candidates such as Green Party USA Ecosocialist candidate Jill Stein and radical intellectual Cornell West fight for ballot access in many states.
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International situation
State of the world: economic crisis and geopolitical rivalries
9 September, by Claude SerfatiMy interpretation of the current situation is based on the hypothesis that the global space is being transformed under the dual pressure of economic dynamics and geopolitical rivalries, the interactions between which differ according to historical circumstances.
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Pakistan
‘It’s crucial to fight the far right in Pakistan and the region’
8 September, by Farooq Tariq, Israel DutraThough it is one of the most dynamic regions of world capitalism, the Brazilian public [and elsewhere] knows little about South Asia. But the recent student rebellion in Bangladesh has brought to the fore this region marked by instability, which includes populous countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Fourth International
International youth camp a great success!
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Middle East
Rivals in the Service of Empire: Abu Dhabi, Qatar and the United States
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USA
Harris Moves Right in Search of a Majority
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Kenya
The Kenyan Uprising
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Middle East
Hypocrisy: The Conflict of Zionist Hawks and Vultures
Recently posted Debate
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War in Ukraine
Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception
16 July 2023, by Fred Leplatread article...“Anti-capitalists and internationalists support unconditionally the people of Ukraine in their armed resistance to liberate their country from the Russian genocidal invasion. But the support for Ukraine is not necessarily uncritical.”
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Ukraine and Europe
Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left
22 December 2022, by Catherine Samaryread article...This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.
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War in Ukraine
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcarread article...“The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”
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War in Ukraine
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital
16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewskiread article...“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”
Palestine solidarity
Statement on Palestine
Fourth Internation Youth Camp
September 2024
This solidarity statement was adopted by the 39th edition of the Fourth International youth camp in France in July 2024.
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People’s Struggle Alliance Election Fund
August 2024
The People’s Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people’s uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle’) in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘system change’. The Socialist People’s Forum (SPF), supporters of the Fourth International in Sri Lanka, is among its founders.
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Solidarity and unity now
August 2024
Anti*Capitalist Resistance statement on far right violence sweeping Britain and Northern Ireland in August 2024
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Russia is purposefully launching missile strikes on children, patients, and workers in Ukraine
KVPU statement
July 2024
France
Strengthen the united and militant left, prevent the far right from coming to power
Statement by NPA-L’Anticapitaliste
June 2024
“To roll back the far right and push forward a fighting left, in a situation of deep crisis in capitalism, we need to strengthen the unity of action of the whole left.”
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