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
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Indonesia
Women cannot win decent work and freedom from violence under the anti-democratic regime in Indonesia:
8 December 2025, by Perempuan Mahardhikaread article..."On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed globally from 25 November to 10 December, Free Women will conduct simultaneous national actions in four cities under the theme ’Decent Work and Freedom from Violence Will Not Be Achieved Under an Anti-Democratic Regime’. This is an effort to strengthen the global commitment of the women’s movement to end torture and violence against women."
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Ukraine
“Russia has erased Ukrainian feminist history”
8 December 2025, by Feminist Workshopread article...An interview with Feminist Workshop (Ukraine) by Patrick Le Tréhondat (ENSU, France).
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China
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
30 November 2025, by Ralf Ruckus, Yige Dongread article...Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family unit in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Such trends, furthermore, represent an existential crisis for the nation, as the deepening crisis of social reproduction in the post-socialist country also threatens the reproduction of its necessary supply of labor power. But what exactly is this crisis of social reproduction, and what, if anything, is specific about the situation in the PRC? What role does the feminist movement in the PRC play in all of this?
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China/US
Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
30 November 2025, by Ashley Smithread article...Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China.
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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