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 solidarity - Britain
Anti‑militarism without pacifism
17 August, by Andy Kilmister, Liz LawrenceWhat attitudes should socialists and trade unionists have to war?
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USA
Learning from the DSA convention
16 August, by Paul Le BlancA different view on the DSA convention.
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USA
DSA’s 2025 National Convention: A New Chapter Opens Up for the Socialist Movement
15 August, by Philip Locker, Stephan Kimmerle“The challenge for revolutionary Marxists is to build a Marxist center of DSA that can lead in the direction of principled mass work and national visibility of DSA in broader movements against Trump, in labor, and in social movements.”
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Palestine
The “Day After” in Gaza
14 August, by Gilbert Achcar“Hypocritical cries of condemnation have risen, warning Netanyahu that this project will lead to massive displacement and a large number of deaths, as if the genocide and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist army over the past 22 months, and supported during several months by the same Western governments that are blaming Netanyahu today, were not already worse than what he is promising now.”
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Britain
Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide
13 August, by Dave Kellaway“Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Fourth International
Fighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp
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South Africa
Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises
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Bangladesh
One year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation
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Palestine solidarity - Britain
Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms
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Britain
Building grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers
Recently posted Features
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Ecosocialism
A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
3 December 2012, by Daniel Tanuroread article...For the first time in history, humanity has to conceive our emancipation under a global ecological constraint, unsurpassable by an increase in labor productivity.
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Philippines
Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
22 October 2012, by R.S. Solisread article...This paper from the RMP-M (Revolutionary Workers’ Party-Mindanao, Philippines section of the Fourth International), gives the background to the reported “framework” agreement between the Moro people on Mindanao and the Philippines’ government.
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Feminist theory
For another difference
10 September 2012, by Lidia Cirilloread article...It seems to me that within the debate about gender difference a lot of confusion has arisen through the meanings given to the terms used in the discussion and the views behind the various definitions. Some years ago I was rather clear on where I agreed and disagreed with the comrades who identified with Irigaray’s ideas.
I really don’t know why the debate in “Rifondazione” has ended up putting my mind in a bit of a muddle. But the muddle has not gone so far as to prevent me realising (…) -
Feminist theory
On the question of sexual difference
10 September 2012, by Josette Tratread article...The philosophy of difference as it is theorized by Luce Irigaray today stems in part from the discussions within the French women’s movement at the beginning of the 1970s. The discussion has re-emerged today with publication of Luce Irigaray’s book Le temps de la différence in 1989, and her subsequent publications which, particularly the latest J’aime à toi (1992) she reformulates her project of a society based on the recognition of a gendered civil law. The discussion has become richer with other contributions, particularly from Italy.
Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih — Vermont — Paris!
August 2025
A unique event took place at the Kryvyi Rih branch of the Social Movement NGO — we had the honour of welcoming special guests: Senator Tanya Vyhovsky from Vermont, USA, and Nico Dix, representative of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA-A). It was an inspiring meeting, filled with valuable experiences and sincere conversations!
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You give us corruption, we give you revolution!
Statement by Sotsialnyi Rukh
July 2025
Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.
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Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference
July 2025
“we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism – placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority.”
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Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!
June 2025
While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes’ and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic’, what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.
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Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran
June 2025
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:
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