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.
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USA
Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement
13 July, by Dan La BotzA 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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Togo
A wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations in Togo
12 July, by Paul MartialA wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations on 26, 27 and 28 June. It was sparked by the arrest of a young rapper who was critical of the regime. Faced with a dynastic government locked in by the army, Togo’s young people are expressing a desire for change that the regime is trying to extinguish with terror.
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Kenya
Renewed protests in Kenya
11 July, by Paul MartialOne year after the major demonstrations against the budget, Kenyan youths are taking to the streets again, despite increased repression.
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Greece
Anti-racist festival in Athens a great success against a backdrop of state racism
10 July, by Andreas SartzekisThousands of participants, numerous debates and strong international solidarity: the Athens Anti-Racist Festival 2025 bears witness to the vitality of the anti-racist movement, despite the alarming political situation in Greece.
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Serbia
Student revolt becomes everyone’s in Serbia
9 July, by Lucien Perpette“Movements of solidarity with the Serbian people must be stepped up, as has already been the case during the two visits of Serbian demonstrators to Brussels and Strasbourg.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Ukraine/Palestine
Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!
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USA
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes with Ugly Results for the Country
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Bangladesh
On the present left political situation in Bangladesh
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Palestine solidarity
Solidarity with Gaza is not antisemitic - Death to hypocrisy
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Palestine
Massacres and starvation in a criminal silence
Recently posted Features
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India
‘Defend women’s right to freedom without fear! Ensure swift and sure punishment for rape!’
28 January 2013, by Kavita Krishnanread article...This is the cover story of the forthcoming January 2013 issue of the magazine of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with Kavita Krishan’s permission. Kavita Krisnan is secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association AIPWA.
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Economic crisis
Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!
22 January 2013, by Éric Toussaintread article...Since 2007-2008, the major central banks (the ECB, Bank of England, the “Fed” in the USA, and the Swiss National Bank) have been making it their absolute priority to attempt to avoid a collapse of the private banking system. Contrary to what has been said more or less everywhere, the principal risk threatening the banks is not that a government will suspend payment of sovereign debt. None of the bank failures since 2007 have been caused by that kind of payment default. None of the bank bailouts organized by the various governments has been made necessary by suspension of payment by an over-indebted State.
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Sexual violence
The Current Mobilizations over Rape
21 January 2013, by Soma Marikread article...As a historian, I know that the actions very often have highly unintended consequences. Historical turning points occur, not because deep planning willed them into existence, but at the intersection of many cross-currents. So it is today. Activists of our generation have been campaigning for long over rape, demanding changes in rape laws, changes in attitudes, and a wide range of demands. But it was not our repeated campaigns, nor even the over a decade long epic protest of Irom Sharmila, that managed to shake the entire country. It was, on the surface, a single incident, the Delhi bus gang rape of early December 2012. We are aware of the vast numbers who have come out and demanded punishment, government action, who have protested repeatedly and vigorously.
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Women and party
Sanctions policy in a feminist party
17 January 2013, by PRT, Mexicoread article...The following criteria of internal sanctions in the party, in regard to oppression of women, were approved at the VI National Congress, held from the 1st to the 5th of November 1989 in Mexico.
Iran-Israel
Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!
June 2025
While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes’ and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic’, what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.
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Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran
June 2025
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:
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On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran
Radical Socialist Statement
June 2025
Radical Socialist endorses the statement of the Fourth International issued on 13th June on the current Israeli war of aggression against Iran. Hence, we are reproducing the statement below. At the same time, we want our readers, especially in India, to note strongly certain concerns, some briefly mentioned in the FI statement, others specific to the Indian context.
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Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group
June 2025
UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.
USA
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
Statement by the Solidarity National Committee
June 2025
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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