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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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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Ukraine/Palestine
Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!
8 July, by CollectiveINTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’s DAY is June 1 in Ukraine, Russia, and 47 other countries. This Children’s Day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) calls for the freedom and return of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children whom Russia has kidnapped and for ending the mass starvation of millions of children in Palestine, Sudan, and other sites of widespread child hunger such as Haiti, South Sudan, and Mali.
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USA
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes with Ugly Results for the Country
7 July, by Dan La BotzBy just a few votes in both houses, the Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s 940-page “Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion package, cutting taxes for the rich and slashing social programs for the working class and the poor, while at the same time increasing the national debts by $3 trillion or more.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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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
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China
The social cost of China’s resistance to Trump’s tariff war
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Serbia
Serbia: controlled, decentralized chaos across the country, but power is waning
Recently posted Features
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Campism
Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
21 April 2022, by Dan La Botzread article...I began this paper as a contribution to discussions in the Internationalism from Below Group, whose members’ criticisms helped to improve it. I finished it with help from the editors of New Politics. Special thanks to Steve Shalom for his comments. I alone, however, am responsible for this version of the essay.
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Russia
Russian Imperialism and Its Monopolies
21 April 2022, by Michael Pröbstingread article...It is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for progressive forces to have a clear view on the character of the powers involved, which in turn requires a concrete analysis of the political, economic, and military features of these powers that goes beyond a denunciation of the reactionary domestic and foreign policy of their respective governments. [1] Unfortunately, large sectors of the left do not take a principled position of opposition to all imperialist powers. Rather, they display some kind of sympathy or even support for China and Russia and recognize only the old Western powers as imperialist. [2] In the case of China, a number of “communist” intellectuals and well-known journals like Monthly Review not only deny the Stalinist-capitalist character of its regime but shamefully glorify it as a kind of “socialism.” [3]
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Obituary
Rosario Ibarra: Mexican Socialist Feminist, 1927-2022. Presente!
21 April 2022, by Dan La Botzread article...“From the 1970s until her death, Ibarra remained active in all of the causes of Mexico’s working people and the oppressed whether as a private person or after 2006 as a Senator.”
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Tribute to Alain Krivine
“To hold on as he held on, optimism of the will had to prevail”
10 April 2022, by Michèle Krivineread article...Tribute at the funeral on 21 March by Michèle Krivine, née Martinet, wife of Alain Krivine. She was active in the Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire, and subsequently the Ligue communiste and the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire.
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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