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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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USA
Trump’s Lisa D. Cook Firing: Use of Racism in Power Grab
13 September, by Malik MiahTrump’s August 25 late night internet post firing Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, the country’s central bank, came as a surprise. Why her?
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Nepal
Nepal protests have deeper roots
12 September, by Alex de JongUnder the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Houses of prominent politicians were attacked, the parliament set on fire and the government is in shambles. But what is next?
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Indonesia
The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
11 September, by Michael G. VannThe Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.
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Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire: Exclusion of main opponents in presidential election
10 September, by Paul MartialThe exclusion of the main opposition candidates from the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire on 25 October 2025 casts a shadow over the vote and fuels the risk of political violence in a country marked by a long history of electoral crises.
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USA
Trump Wants a More Militaristic, Bellicose America
9 September, by Dan La BotzPresident Donald Trump last week renamed the U.S. Department of Defense, announcing that it is now the Department of War. The name change suggests that Trump wants a more warlike country, despite his claims that he is a peacemaker. In fact, the Trump administration already has a remarkable record of military action in various regions of the world.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Pakistan
State Neglect and Corporate-Driven Development Deepen Rural Devastation: Punjab faces unprecedented flood challenge
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Palestine
Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity
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Turkey/Kurdistan
Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations
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Palestine solidarity
What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?
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Economy and Ecology
Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects
Recently posted Features
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Geopolitics
Against Multipolar Imperialism
8 January 2023, by Promise Liread article...“How does this exactly change our strategy around international solidarity as socialists? We must rethink what “the main enemy is at home” means in practice. Of course, this is not to abandon the struggle against imperialism in the West, but to expand our horizons to target sites where different states intersect with each other and international institutions.”
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France
NPA split “an epochal change for the revolutionary left”
6 January 2023, by François Sabadoread article...Interview with François Sabado by Mathieu Dejean published in Mediapart on 26 December 2022.
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South Korea
Transphobic hate is not an opinion but a crime that endangers the lives of transgender people
3 January 2023, by Yong-hui Hongread article...In South Korea, there was a focus on hate and discrimination against transgender people in 2020 and 2021, when the Covid-19 backlash targeted LGBTIQ people.
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Climate debt
Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick
27 December 2022, by Desmond D’Sa, Patrick Bondread article...In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing – as a “rotten carrot and broken stick.” The National Liberation Front’s aim was to achieve full-fledged sovereignty in a unified country by defeating the world’s most powerful army, an awesome task yet one completed within a decade (though at the cost of two million dead compatriots and 50,000 brutal U.S. invaders).
Pakistan
Stand with Peasants and Rural Communities in the wake of the 2025 worst ever floods
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (peasants coordination) Urgent Finance Appeal
September 2025
Worst ever flood at River Ravi for 38 years, hundreds of villages affected across Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej belts. Kartarour complex (a place of worship for Sikh community, located inside Pakistan, where Indians can come without visa) submerged. Over 800 killed, thousands injured, eight districts of Punjab under water.
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Message of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) to Freedom Flotilla
August 2025
We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Having lived through invasion, occupation, forced displacement, and separation from our loved ones, many of us know too well what these mean.
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Brazilian activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla
August 2025
The Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail on 31 August heading for Gaza via Tunis in yet another attempt to break the blockade. Internationally-known figures such as Greta Thunberg, actor Susan Sarandon and Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, will be aboard. [1] As will Fourth Internationalist activists from Brazil and Ireland.
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Union president to get married
August 2025
Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war who defended Mariupol and then spent 20 months in Russian captivity, has just been elected as the new president of the LGBTQ+ military union.
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Kryvyi Rih — Vermont — Paris!
August 2025
A unique event took place at the Kryvyi Rih branch of the Social Movement NGO — we had the honour of welcoming special guests: Senator Tanya Vyhovsky from Vermont, USA, and Nico Dix, representative of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA-A). It was an inspiring meeting, filled with valuable experiences and sincere conversations!
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