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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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  • Spanish state

    The long May 68 in the Spanish state

    21 November 2018, by Manuel Garí

    In the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.

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  • Internationalism

    Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism

    21 November 2018, by Catherine Samary

    As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

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  • Pakistan

    50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution

    21 November 2018, by Lal Khan

    Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.

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  • Fourth International

    Livio Maitan: History wrinkle-free

    16 November 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

    Daniel Bensaïd wrote the Preface to Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente published in 2006.

    Resistance Books and the IIRE have launched an appeal to fiund publication in English. It has almost reached the first goal of 5,000 euros, thanks to a substantial donation in the form of translation work.

    To give an idea of the book, and of the person of Livio, we publish here the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s preface.

    We hope to raise 1,000 euros more to pay for the design and promotion of the book. Details on how to make a donation can be found below.

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