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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

    We need to support forms of liberation struggle unconditionally

    10 March 2015, by Joseph Daher, Mattia Gallo

    This interview was conducted with the Syrian revolutionary Joseph Daher by Italian journalist and activist Mattia Gallo in October 2014.

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  • France

    40 years on: the struggle for abortion rights

    9 February 2015, by Mathilde Breton

    On 17 January 2015 thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and other cities in France to commemorate the fortieth anniversay of the law legalising abortion in France for the first time, but also to denounce the inadequacies in its application, and to highlight other forms of women’s inequality. On this occasion the monthly journal of the NPA l’Anticapitaliste la Revue published this article retracing the struggle for the right to abortion in France.

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  • Ireland

    Irish state reduces women to vessels

    9 February 2015, by JM Thorne

    The repression of women by the Irish state has been exposed yet again by the case of a clinically dead woman being kept alive in order to continue a pregnancy. The responsibility of the state for this woman’s situation was summed up in the claim by doctors that they were unable to accede to her family’s request that life support be switched off for “constitutional reasons”. In this case the legal imperative to preserve the life of the unborn raised the prospect of a woman’s body being maintained for up to twenty weeks despite there being no possibility of a live, never mind healthy birth.

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  • Sexual politics

    Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective

    4 February 2015, by Johanna Brenner

    The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.

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