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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

    Syria and the Dangers of Playing with Fire

    17 July, by Gilbert Achcar

    Whatever is the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Suwayda Governorate—whether they were merely the result of the chaos prevailing in post-Assad Syria, or a manoeuvre by Israel in order to escalate its hypocritical intervention in the region, or a manoeuvre by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to extend its control over southern Syria—what is unmistakable is that the first factor, the prevailing chaos, provided the conditions for the explosion.

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  • Kosova

    Remembering Srebrenica 30 Years On

    16 July, by Geoff Ryan

    11 July marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in July 1995 of over 8,000 largely Bosniak men and male children by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic. They were buried in mass graves. Many thousand more fled into the forest and embarked on a harrowing journey lasting up to 7 days before reaching the eastern Bosnia village of Nezuk. What led up to the massacre and how it has been treated compared to two other wars: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians..

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  • Chile

    Communist Party triumph and opportunity in an adverse electoral scenario in Chile

    15 July, by Javiera Manzi, Karina Nohales

    Jeannette Jara swept the country, displacing the former Concertación and Frente Amplio (Broad Front or FA) parties. If she were to win the November 16, 2025 presidential elections, it would be a milestone that would run counter to the current political climate in Latin America.

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  • Iran

    Islamic Republic and state racism: we must put an end to this regime!

    14 July, by Babak Kia

    Since 1 June 2025, nearly 450,000 Afghans have left Iranian territory. This estimate, provided by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), is staggering. For the whole of 2025, the number rises to 906,326 according to the UN agency.

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  • USA

    Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement

    13 July, by Dan La Botz

    A few months ago, President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again or MAGA movement seemed to be a solid monolith from Republican Party legislators at the top to rank-and-file activists at its base. Today MAGA is riven with fissures caused by personal rivalries, and the increasingly visible incompetence of cabinet members, and while MAGA is not yet splitting or crumbling, it is clearly cracking.

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  • In Memoriam

    Michel Lequenne (1921-2020): A very particular Trotskyist

    16 February 2020, by Michael Löwy

    Michel Lequenne died on 13 February 2020, at almost 99 years old.He was a singular, atypical Trotskyist, an outstanding character, by the strength of his convictions, his polemical verve, his extraordinary – self-taught! – political, literary, artistic and historical culture, his propensity for dissent, his fidelity to the legacy of Red October.

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  • Our History

    Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918

    16 February 2020, by Éric Toussaint

    In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.

    This decision of repudiation was intrinsic to this first big movement for social emancipation which rattled the Russian Empire in 1905. This huge revolutionary uprising was caused by the conjunction of many factors: the Russian debacle in its war with Japan, the wrath of peasants demanding land, the rejection of autocracy, workers’ demands... The movement began with strikes in St Petersburg in 1905 and soon spread throughout the empire like wildfire, adopting different forms of struggle.

    Out of the process of self-organization by the masses emerged councils, or soviets in Russian: peasants’ councils, workers’ councils, soldiers’ councils and so on.

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  • Holocaust

    1990: “Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide”

    27 January 2020, by Ernest Mandel

    This is the text of Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., Révision de l’Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et génocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74.
    The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232.

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  • An Unrepentant ’68er’s Life

    19 January 2020, by Kay Mann

    An Impatient Life by Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach
    Foreword by Tariq Ali.Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages.

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