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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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  • US Imperialism’s pivot to Asia

    16 April 2013, by Ashley Smith

    In his second inaugural address, President Obama announced that after he withdraws combat troops from Afghanistan, the United States will be “ending a decade of wars.” On the very same day, the United States conducted three drone strikes in Yemen. In reality, Washington is now in a permanent state of “low-intensity” drone wars all around the world and is preparing, through what has been called the Pivot to Asia, to contain China. Obama is no pacifist. In his second term, he intends not to retreat from American imperial assertion but to strengthen it.

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  • Ecology

    A critique of the ecosocialist manifesto of the Parti de Gauche

    24 March 2013, by Daniel Tanuro

    Daniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) [1]. In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to the crucial debate on the necessary ecosocialist strategy.

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  • Britain

    Socialist Feminism: Hidden from history

    7 March 2013, by Terry Conway

    It is usual that for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution — in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event. On other occasions we have looked at the role that women are playing in struggles today abroad as well as at home.
    In this article I am doing something a bit different — to start to celebrate the role that socialist feminists played in second wave feminism in Britain.

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  • The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)

    7 March 2013, by John Riddell

    The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders.

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