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.
“It is necessary to make 2021 a year of resistance and unitary action, on the streets - while respecting health standards - against this genocidal government. ”
read article...“If a solid leftist electoral front can be built while maintaining the pressure of street mobilization on a much weakened colonial capitalist regime, a true sea change is not just possible but within reach.”
read article...“Wherever one stands on Evo Morales, and despite the challenges ahead, it is clear that at least for the moment, Bolivians continue to challenge capitalism and its orthodoxies.”
read article...“Yet if the story of the defeat of fascism and of the central role played by socialism in its demise teaches us any lesson, it is that we surely have to keep trying.”
read article...Failed beer hall putsch re-enactments aside, Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 if not sooner—at least for the next four years. The focus now shifts to the post-Trump world: what can we expect from the incoming Biden administration?
read article...Achcar’s survey ranges from basic principles, the disputes over the hijab, to the policies of the French and British far left organisations - some of which he finds "unacceptable from a Marxist point of view."
The expectations fostered by the left that the Lula government would push for structural reforms or progressive changes in Brazilian society have been largely dashed.
This resolution brings together and develops the positions discussed by the tendency since the XII National Meeting of the PT. Its central concern is to understand the new political conditions opened up by Lula’s victory and the new conditions for party-building in this situation.
We present here the letter to members of PT which resulted from the discusions on the 6th December 2004 in SãoPaulo at the second seminar of the PT left organised by the tendencies Articulação de Esquerda and Democracia Socialista.
Argentina’s Congress has legalised abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy, a ground-breaking move for a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive termination laws.
- read article...The December issue of the South African journal Amandla! is now out.
- read article...“Today’s mobilization was incredible, like a huge awakening after months of political confinement.”
- read article...The NPA protests against the Macron government’s intention to dissolve the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
- read article...The current situation in Western Sahara is extremely serious and represents a qualitative leap and a historical event before which we cannot remain impassive.
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