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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USA
Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement
13 July, by Dan La BotzA few months ago, President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again or MAGA movement seemed to be a solid monolith from Republican Party legislators at the top to rank-and-file activists at its base. Today MAGA is riven with fissures caused by personal rivalries, and the increasingly visible incompetence of cabinet members, and while MAGA is not yet splitting or crumbling, it is clearly cracking.
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Togo
A wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations in Togo
12 July, by Paul MartialA wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations on 26, 27 and 28 June. It was sparked by the arrest of a young rapper who was critical of the regime. Faced with a dynastic government locked in by the army, Togo’s young people are expressing a desire for change that the regime is trying to extinguish with terror.
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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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...and the rest of the current issue
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Ukraine/Palestine
Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!
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USA
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes with Ugly Results for the Country
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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
Recently posted Features
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Women in the Middle East
The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East
25 October 2020, by Kumari Jayawardenaread article...For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.
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Covid-19 pandemic and economy
The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union
16 September 2020, by Daniel Albarracínread article...This chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions that the European Union is adopting, whose measures will take precise form once its particular institutional procedure is completed.
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Assassination of Trotsky
1990: The assassination of Trotsky
28 August 2020, by Ernest Mandelread article...This article was first published under the pseudonym of Louis Couturier in La Gauche, the journal of the Belgian section of the Fourth International, on 19 September 1990.
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Political theory
Analysing global capitalism
24 August 2020, by Phil Hearseread article...Socialist Resistance and Mutiny are organisations in Britain which are both part of a process of forming a wider organisation which has the provisional name of Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Over the past six months, Mutiny has had a dialogue with American Marxist theorist William I Robinson. Phil Hearse, a Mutiny member who also supports Socialist Resistance, wrote a ‘presentation’ of Robinson for SR members, strongly supporting some of his ideas, while raising concerns about imperialism and Robinson’s ideas about a ‘transnational capitalist’ class’. We publish this below, together with a rejoinder from William I Robinson.
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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