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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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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South Africa
GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?
18 October 2025, by Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla!read article...Amandla! interviewed Bridgette Nkomana about gender based violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA+ community.
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South Africa
Tackling GBV in the rural areas
18 October 2025, by Amandla!, Denia Jansenread article...Amandla! interviewed Denia Jansen, Co-ordinator of the gender based violence (GBV) programme for the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA)
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Obituary
Andreas Kloke (1953-2025)
18 October 2025, by Fourth International Programmatic Tendencyread article...Our comrade Andreas Klocke, with whom we were active in what was then the only group in the Greek section of the Fourth International, died at the beginning of October, greatly weakened by a very long illness following a complex operation. In recent years, as far as his strength allowed, Andreas continued to be involved in observing and analysing what could advance a revolutionary crisis.
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Economy
China and the IMF, supported by BRICS+, provided a lifeline to Javier Milei’s far-right government in Argentina
7 October 2025, by Éric Toussaintread article...In September 2025, after having presided over the country since December 2023, the neo-fascist Javier Milei suffered an electoral defeat in an important vote. The result was the election in the province of Buenos Aires. This election renewed 46 seats in the provincial Chamber of Deputies and 23 in the provincial Senate. The Peronist opposition beat Milei’s party by 13 points and holds a majority in the Buenos Aires Provincial Senate. The capital province represents about 37-38% of the national electorate. The provincial elections in Buenos Aires always serve as a major test at the national level, including for Javier Milei this year.
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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