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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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Ukraine
Is Ukraine endangered by elections?
1 January, by Vitaliy DudinWhat will be the election race in war-wounded Ukraine - a collapse of statehood or a breath of fresh air in a roughly sealed system adjusted to the service of oligarchs? The language, first and foremost, is about the parliamentary elections.
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Chile
Rise of the Far Right in Chile
31 December 2025, by Oscar Mendoza“How did Chile move from the euphoria of Gabriel Boric’s triumph in 2021, with a 10-point lead over Kast, to a far right-wing victory?”
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Tunisia
Support the prisoners, stop the repression in Tunisia
30 December 2025, by Édouard SoulierFifteen years after the start of the Tunisian revolution, the authoritarian regime established by Kais Saied is increasing arrests, unfair trials and repression against all civil society. In the face of this offensive, international solidarity is more necessary than ever.
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Portugal
Big success for general strike in Portugal
29 December 2025, by Antonio LouçãPortugal’s minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty.
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Mali
Wagner’s atrocities in Mali
28 December 2025, by Paul MartialIn Mali, the violence exerted by Russian mercenaries against the civilian population is taking place in a climate of total impunity, without condemnation or reaction from the Malian authorities. This strategy of terror worsens an already catastrophic security and social situation.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Racial Injustice Inferno
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China
What is left of the Chinese Left?
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Switzerland
The Other Davos, 16-17 January 2026
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Hong Kong
Two Narratives on the Hong Kong Fire
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Japan
Takaichi Administration’s Two Months
Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso
22 October 2025, by Jaime Pastorread article...The original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.
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USA-Brazil
Trump Tariffs Threaten Brazil: Pushing for Regime Change
19 October 2025, by Gilberto Araújoread article...U.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump’s second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
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Militarization
From the "12-day war" to the NATO and EU summits: A leap forward in militarisation, under the orders of Trumpism
19 October 2025, by Jaime Pastorread article...NATO’s joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc’s shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.
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Palestine
Hamas After 7 October: Resistance and Challenges
19 October 2025, by Joseph Daherread article...Following Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination by Israel in Tehran on 31 July 2024 he was succeeded as head of Hamas’ political bureau for the whole movement by Yahya Sinwar, who had led Hamas’ political bureau for the Gaza Strip since 2017. According to Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official in Beirut, speaking to al-Jazeera, this choice was adopted ‘unanimously’. Sinwar himself was killed by Israeli occupation forces, apparently unaware of his identity, on 17 October 2024.
Iran
Support for the struggle of the people of Iran!
January 2026
The collapse of the national currency and the economy, hyperinflation and wage stagnation are the ingredients of the massive mobilisation that started on Sunday 28 December in the Tehran bazaar and spread to many towns and universities.
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Solidarity Against Communal Violence, Fundamentalism, and State Complicity
December 2025
This Joint Political Statement by the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India) was issued on 25 December 2025.
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Against arbitrariness and repression: Freedom for our comrade Lyes Touati!
December 2025
“Although he is outraged and indignant at his arbitrary imprisonment, he has not lost his legendary smile despite the deep sense of injustice [hogra in Arabic].”
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Call for donations to ESSF’s Asia 2026 Solidarity Fund - A time of youth revolts, people’s power, and ecosocialist alternatives
December 2025
“We face a deadly spiral of combined crises (the ’polycrisis’), to which the established political and economic powers are offering no response. Poverty and widespread insecurity continue to spread. However, in recent months, in the face of humanitarian disasters, protest movements have taken on a new dimension, with impressive demonstrations and uprisings. Asia is at the heart of these developments, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, where our partners are based.”
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Freedom for Lyes Touati and all political prisoners
December 2025
Lyes Touati, a member of the Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs (PST), was arrested yesterday in Aokas (Algeria) and remanded in custody. We do not know the reasons for his arrest or the charges against him.
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