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.
Recently posted Features
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France
Operation "Bullshit Unlimited"
12 September 2002, byread article...Only yesterday, French intellectuals overflowed with compassion. From Bosnia to Chechnya, by way of Kosovo, on every front of the new world disorder. Their silence before the imperial crusade in Afghanistan and before the criminal policy of the Sharon government in Palestine is all the more deafening. This inglorious resignation is not, alas, unrelated to the relative weakness of the anti-war mobilizations in France, compared with the demonstrations that have taken place since 7 October 2002 in most big European countries.
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Brazil
Principles flouted
12 September 2002, byread article...Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has, in the course of the past 20 years, developed a politics of class independence while accumulating a quantity of experiences in social struggles and municipal government, notably through ’participatory democracy’. These founding principles are being flouted in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections.
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Marxism
Leninism in the 21st century
16 November 2001, byread article...Daniel Bensaïd, a central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR - French section of the Fourth International) spoke on ’Leninism in the 21st century’ at the June ’Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British Socialist Workers Party. IV spoke to him afterwards.
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Women and parties
The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political Organizing
23 March 1997, byread article...“The purpose of this report is to look at the challenges to and criticisms of traditional political organizational forms, primarily those made by the women’s movement but also by other social movements, and consider whether they are well-founded or not.”
