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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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  • Philippines

    Three years after super typhoon Yolanda’s passing, social reconstruction of damaged communities

    10 May 2017, by Pierre Rousset

    Yolanda (Haiyan by its international name), the strongest typhoon touching land ever registered, devastated the center of the Philippine archipelago in November 2013 [1]. In July 2016, two years and eight months after, when I landed on Tacloban airport, life had returned to normal. The churches, all new, were dominating — they were rebuilt in priority, before the hospitals, even if it were possible to receive communion under a canopy, while an operating room could prove very useful to a surgeon. Carcasses of buildings that have not yet been rebuilt still stand and there is what one does not see: these “internal refugees”, these “displaced persons”, still without homes, pushed away in the peripheral areas or recently driven to the mountainside.

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  • Environment

    Food sovereignty: a feminist struggle?

    8 May 2017, by Aurélie Leroy

    The starting point of this study is a paradox: among social, institutional and political actors, peasant and family farming are gradually becoming established as legitimate and credible alternatives to an agro-productivist model that has ’run out of steam’. [2] They address both environmental and food-related challenges, are sustainable and successful in agro-economic terms, contribute to social change and operate on a human scale. This is one side of the coin.

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  • Syria and the Left

    8 May 2017, by Yasser Munif

    Behind the humanitarian disaster of the Syrian civil war is a political crisis the Left urgently needs to understand.

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  • Feminism

    Feminist Organising and the Women’s Strike: An Interview with Cinzia Arruzza

    5 May 2017, by Cinzia Arruzza, George Souvlis

    George Souvlis and Ankica Čakardić of Salvage spoke to Cinzia Arruzza, one of the organizers of the call for the International Women’s Strike in the US, about why she came to be an activists, her views on the women’s strike, and more broadly her political views.

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