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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

    Racial Injustice Inferno

    27 December, by Against the Current Editors

    “Whether the Trump presidency is truly in crisis is too early to say. If its daily crimes against humanity are to bring about its downfall, it has to be organized and disciplined movement activism to push it over the cliff.”

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  • China

    What is left of the Chinese Left?

    26 December, by Au Loong-Yu

    With Trump in power, many parts of the world are swinging to the far right. This is the most pressing challenge we currently face. But what is the situation of the Left in China? And where is the Chinese far right?

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  • Switzerland

    The Other Davos, 16-17 January 2026

    25 December, by BFS/MPS

    For more than 25 years, the “Other Davos” has been creating a counter-power to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. This year’s conference focuses on our anti-militarist responses to the escalation of imperialist tensions and wars, as well as on internationalist solidarity with Palestine.

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  • Hong Kong

    Two Narratives on the Hong Kong Fire

    24 December, by Au Loong-Yu

    The 26 November 2025 Wang Fu Court fire has a lot of similarity with London’s 2017 Grenfell fire. In terms of scale, the former was much bigger – instead of just one building there were seven on fire, and instead of 72 deaths there have been 160 deaths as of now. However, the combustible materials used in renovating the outer walls were the direct cause of both.

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  • Japan

    Takaichi Administration’s Two Months

    23 December, by Toshizo Omori

    While LDP-JIP coalition government has been trying to promote right-wing policies, how should the left forces fight against them?

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  • USA

    The Politics of Mass Incarceration

    22 January 2015

    James Kilgore is a longtime activist, writer and researcher. He currently lives in Urbana, Illinois, where has been involved in local movements to pass a Ban the Box initiative (taking questions about criminal background off employment applications) and opposing the building of a new county jail. He spent six and a half years in prison (2002-09) for his participation in political violence in the 1970s. He has published three novels, all of which were drafted while he was incarcerated. His next book is A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration, to be published by The New Press in 2015.

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  • Scotland

    The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state

    5 December 2014, by Neil Davidson

    The British state and its party structures are in crisis. What new forms of political expressions has the Scottish referendum brought into play? This article examines the social and political forces behind 2014.

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  • Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (part 7)

    The European Central Bank’s true priorities

    4 December 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    We have seen that since the beginning of the 2007-2008 crisis, the ECB has played a vital role in saving the big private banks, their owners and directors, while at the same time guaranteeing the continuity of their privileges. We can clearly see that without the ECB, the big banks would have sunk and that would have forced the authorities to take very severe action against them. Beyond bank bail-outs, the ECB is charged with maintaining an inflation rate of around 2%.

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  • Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (part 6)

    The big private banks run on LTRO

    4 December 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    From 2012, the banks were overflowing with cash and made massive purchases of the bonds issued by their own countries. Sovereign debt securities do not require equity, as they are considered to be non-risk. [1]

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