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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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  • Sexual politics

    The programs of neoliberal feminism

    8 January 2016, by Linda Gordon

    Neoliberalism isn’t just harmful economics. Here is a look at its gender side.
    Academics and a few journalists have been writing about neoliberal feminism for some time. But most of them discuss it theoretically. Few recognize how neoliberal assumptions saturate specific proposals for advancing women, or how these proposals do not actually address women’s inequality, especially the inequality multiplied by race and class. At best these proposals are feeble in relation to most women’s problems, and they may even be part of the problem.

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  • Turkey

    Erdo?an’s Victory by Violence

    8 January 2016, by Guney I??kara, Alp Kayserilio?lu, & Max Zirngast

    The right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) is back in power, having easily won a clear majority of members of parliament (MPs) in the Turkish elections. While President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s party did not reach the necessary number of MPs to change the constitution and push through his desired presidential system, the AKP, their talking heads, and their media (just recently expanded through the seizure of more opposition media outlets) will put the issue back on the agenda. Indeed, they have already begun: one of Erdo?an’s senior advisors, Yi?it Bulut, said in his statement celebrating the AKP’s electoral victory, “Welcome, presidential system!”

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  • Sexual politics

    Tearing Down the Walls

    28 December 2015, by Keegan O’Brien

    Forty-six years ago patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular New York City gay bar, fought back against abusive police, and in doing so launched the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement.

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  • Daniel Bensaïd

    “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”

    2 December 2015, by Darren Roso

    This paper on the political writings of Daniel Bensaïd was given at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2015.

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