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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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  • Kurdistan

    The Kurdish Question, the PKK and the tasks of the radical Left

    3 November 2014, by Florian Wilde

    The West has suddenly begun supporting various Kurdish organisations in its fight against the Islamic State. So why is the largest Kurdish organisation of all, the PKK, still outlawed? This article discusses current developments in Kurdistan and gives a brief overview of the history of the Kurdish liberation movement and the PKK’s illegal status in Germany. It argues for a radical left strategy focused on defeating the ban on the PKK.

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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF :70th anniversary (Part 10)

    The World Bank’s support of the dictatorship in Turkey (1980-1983)

    23 October 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    "The World Bank tried very hard to make the the Turkish military appear salutary, and to avoid criticising their interventions.The official comments from the Bank, that the 1980 coup d’état would not jeopardise the Bank’s intention to lend, were very courteous". [1]

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  • Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (part 5)

    BCE / LTRO : what’s that ?

    23 October 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    In 2010 institutional investors (including banks) and hedge funds attacked Greece, the weak link in the European chain of debt, before turning their attention to Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In so doing, they made juicy profits by forcing these countries to increase their interest-rate on their bond issues in order to refinance their debts. Among investors, private banks made the biggest profits, by directly obtaining funds from the ECB at 1%, while at the same time making quarterly loans at 4% or 5%. As far as securities are concerned, they only agreed to buy Irish and Portuguese ten-year bonds if the interest-rate rose to 10%.

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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF : 70th anniversary (Part 9)

    The World Bank and the Philippines

    8 October 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    The 1946 US decision to grant the Philippines its independence inaugurated a period of prosperity in the country. For a number of geo-strategic reasons, in the wake of the Second World War the Americans were willing to let the Philippine government pursue policies that they ruled out elsewhere.

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