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.
“The putschist policy of the colonial right, the passivity or even complicity of the French state in the face of its actions and threats, demonstrate that there is no place for a territory governed by the Kanaks within the French Republic.”
read article...“Over the past week, the pro-Palestine student movement spread to 43 college campuses in 25 states, the largest such student movement in decades. These protests often initiated by Palestinian students, were supported by progressive Jews and many others. The students on most campuses were asking their universities to divest from Israeli companies, especially those producing military equipment, to cut ties with Israeli institutions, and support a ceasefire. ”
read article...“The division among their opponents has certainly helped the Houthis survive, but that’s not all. Perhaps the biggest mistake made by Saudi and Emirati officials was to believe their propaganda that the Houthis were puppets of Iran. In fact, the movement’s leaders have mobilized deep religious and social grievances behind their military campaigns, drawing on a decade of experience challenging the Yemeni state before they seized power in 2015.”
read article...In a context where the winds of war blow more strongly every day and the capitalist societies are starting a huge wave of remilitarization, where the war economy already has started, with big inflation rates and cuts to welfare state, health and education systems, it is of crucial importance for the anticapitalist youth to find moments to meet and coordinate.
It was 1984 when the revolutionary youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International took place for the first time in (...)
Rwanda is becoming a key player for the European Union (EU) both in the fight against immigration and in securing African countries under attack from their rebels.
read article...The process of European unification is undergoing a deep crisis, certainly the deepest since it started at the beginning of the 1950s. In less than a year, the EU faced two major tests—first the Greek quarrel, then the refugee crisis — that revealed its true face: a mixture of impotence, unwillingness, egoism, arrogance and cynicism. It is not a pretty spectacle. No illusions can remain about this entity that, far from embodying the federal ideal, has become an empty shell, an object of shame and deserved sarcasm. Those who still ritually proclaim its virtues are the representatives of a highly discredited political elite who seem to no longer have any culture or values. The more they assert their belief in the EU, the more they disqualify it, even in the eyes of the millions of people who have never felt any sympathy for conservatism, nationalism and xenophobia.
We published An Open Letter to Yanis Varoufakis by George Souvlis and Samuele Mazzolini about the Democracy in Europe Movement 2015 DiEM25. this is Varoufakis’ reply.
In the following open letter, George Souvlis and Samuele Mazzolini respond to the launch of DiEM launch in Rome in March
The third anniversary of the death of the late President Hugo Chávez on March 5 was the occasion for several articles assessing 18 years of Chavista government in Venezuela—15 of them with Chávez in power and the last three under his successor, Nicolás Maduro.
“In this calamitous situation, we are unable to maintain the Antifascist International Conference on the proposed date.”
- read article...“Therefore, today we stand united, pledging to continue the fight for the rights and welfare of the working class, and in saving our planet and humanity from the destructive capitalist system. Labor Day will always be a day of protest for all of us. So, with the days beyond.”
- read article...“This is the culmination of a campaign by the German government that has been going on for months to prevent any solidarity with the people of Palestine and criticism of the German government’s military and political support for Israel.”
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- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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