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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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  • France

    Political instability in France: act before it’s too late

    27 November, by Elsa Collonges

    The global crisis of capitalism and its ecological dimension are provoking a major political crisis. In the countries of the Global North, and in France in particular, the bourgeoisie is seeking to settle accounts with the post-World War II social compromise, violently and rapidly.

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  • Denmark

    The Unity List remains Copenhagen’s largest party

    26 November, by Jonathan Simmel

    Local and regional elections have been held in Denmark, and the Unity List [known internationally as the Red Green Alliance] has once again become Copenhagen’s largest party. The Social Democrats lost the mayoralty to the Socialist People’s Party and lost ground in 86 of 98 municipalities. The results clearly reflect the national political scene, where the Social Democrats chose to form a majority government with two bourgeois parties in 2022.

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  • USA

    Six Lawmakers Tell U.S. Troop: Don’t Obey Illegal Orders

    25 November, by Dan La Botz

    “ The six Democrats by making their video have challenged Trump and they have done a great service to our country, to those in the military, and to those at home or abroad who might be victims.”

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  • Britain

    Britain – difficulties and opportunities...

    24 November, by Veronica Fagan

    The last weekend of November will see a major conference take place in the city of Liverpool in the north west of England. Fronted by former Labour MP Zara Sultana and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and with more than 50,000 sign ups, this will formally launch a new political party. The proto-formation currently has the clumsy, name of Your Party but the membership will at some later point decide whether and how to rename it.

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  • Ukraine

    Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice

    23 November, by Oleksandr Kyselov

    Exhausted by over three years of Russian attacks, Ukrainians are increasingly ready to accept unfair political compromises and harsh territorial concessions to end the war. Yet it’s far from clear that this hard choice will actually bring lasting peace.

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  • Part 12: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

    Reasserting debt repudiation ends with success

    8 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

    Before the Genoa conference, Soviet Russia had managed to sign bilateral treaties with Poland, the Baltic Republics, Turkey and Persia. More importantly, it had managed to sign a trade agreement with the UK. Signed in 1921, this agreement had sanctioned the Soviet laws of nationalization before UK courts and this meant that companies that traded with Russia no longer ran the risk of getting into trouble. [1]

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  • Part 10 of Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

    Genoa (1922): proposals and, counter-proposals on the Tsarist debt

    8 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

    On 20 April 1922, Chicherin announced the Soviet response to the Western powers’ proposals of 15 April. It indicated that: “The Russian delegation are still of the opinion that the present economic condition of Russia and the circumstances which are responsible for it should fully justify the complete release of Russia from all her liabilities mentioned in the above proposals by the recognition of her counter-claims”.

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  • Part 8 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

    In 1922 creditor powers again attempt to subjugate the Soviets

    7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

    Western governments presented a full list of demands aimed at solving in their favour the litigation over debt repudiation and expropriations decreed by the Soviet government. Those demands were presented in Genoa on 15 April 1922, five days into the conference, in a document entitled “London Experts’ Report on the Russian issue.” [2]

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  • Part 7 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

    Diplomatic manoeuvers around Russian debt repudiation

    7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

    For five weeks in April and May 1922, a summit conference was held. Britain’s prime minister, Lloyd George, played a central role in it, as did Louis Barthou, the minister of the French president Raymond Poincaré.

    The main aim of the meeting was to persuade Soviet Russia [3] both to acknowledge the debts it had repudiated in 1918 and to cease calling for a global revolution.

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