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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USA
Four Thousand Worker Activists at Labor Notes Conference Plan to Fight
16 June, byMore than 4,000 worker activists gathered in Chicago from June 12-14 for the Labor Notes Conference where they discussed the challenges facing unions and workers, shared experiences, and planned for the fights of the future. They came from across the United States and some from countries around the world. The conference began with and was permeated with a commitment to strengthen unions, to stand up to the corporations and the government, and to improve the lives of working people.
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Cuba-USA
Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point
15 June, byWhile we note the “ Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba” we also publish a report on a solidarity delegation to Cuba from the US. [IVP]
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USA-Cuba
Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba
15 June, byAt the same time as Trump pursues his aggressive policies US citizens organize to show their solidarity with Cuba “Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point”.[IVP]
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Bolivia
Bolivia on the Edge
14 June, byDuring popular insurrections like the one underway in Bolivia, which is calling for President Rodrigo Paz’s resignation after just six months in office, the experience of time and space changes, acquiring an extraordinary charge from day to day, even hour to hour. Indigenous campesino insurgents have long characterised such moments as belonging to ‘another time’.
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Internationalism
Porto Alegre and the Rebirth of Internationalism
13 June, byAcross continents, something is beginning to take shape again. It’s not yet a finished alignment, nor a settled strategy nor even a unified political perspective. But a movement, hesitant, uneven, and sometimes contradictory, toward renewed internationalism.
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Recently posted Features
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Feminism
Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
9 June, byread article...“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”
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India
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism - A Balance Sheet
9 June, byread article...The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all-India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India’s TV channels and much of the print media owned by a small number of houses all aligned with dominant capitalist groups that support the Modi government, the predictions had been for a massive BJP and NDA sweep. Some Exit Polls even gave them close to 400 seats in the 543 member parliament. In reality the BJP won 240 seats, less than a majority, and even with all its allies it had just 293 seats. It was evident that the fascist chariot was slowing down.
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Russia
War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
8 June, by ,read article...Vladimir Putin’s regime is beginning to show signs of frailty amidst its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Kyiv has fought the regime to a standoff, Russia’s casualties mount to about 1.2 million dead and wounded, and Russia’s economy, despite the temporary sugar rush of increased oil prices, faces mounting problems. Here Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
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Colonialism in Africa
Anticolonial fraud: The Kremlin in Africa
8 June, byread article...The Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions.
