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• Nepal

  Nepal protests have deeper roots

  12 September, by Alex de Jong

  Under the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Houses of prominent politicians were attacked, the parliament set on fire and the government is in shambles. But what is next?

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• Indonesia

  The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy

  11 September, by Michael G. Vann

  The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.

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• Côte d’Ivoire

  Côte d’Ivoire: Exclusion of main opponents in presidential election

  10 September, by Paul Martial

  The exclusion of the main opposition candidates from the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire on 25 October 2025 casts a shadow over the vote and fuels the risk of political violence in a country marked by a long history of electoral crises.

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• USA

  Trump Wants a More Militaristic, Bellicose America

  9 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump last week renamed the U.S. Department of Defense, announcing that it is now the Department of War. The name change suggests that Trump wants a more warlike country, despite his claims that he is a peacemaker. In fact, the Trump administration already has a remarkable record of military action in various regions of the world.

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• Pakistan

  State Neglect and Corporate-Driven Development Deepen Rural Devastation: Punjab faces unprecedented flood challenge

  8 September, by Farooq Tariq, Qammar Abbas

  Two million people have been impacted, 2200 villages and millions of acre of agri land are under water. Unprecedented Flood water now moving toward Sindh endangering lives of millions.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Palestine

  Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity

• Turkey/Kurdistan

  Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

• Palestine solidarity

  What if Genoa wasn’t an anomaly?

• Economy and Ecology

  Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

• Denmark/Ukraine

  Return from Ukraine

Recently posted Features

• Fourth International

  The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

  3 September, by Ernest Mandel

  The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.

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• Asia

  Labour’s Polycrisis

  20 August, by Kevin Lin

  A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don’t have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.

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• Ecology

  The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky

  20 August, by Daniel Tanuro

  For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...

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• Fourth International

  Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

  20 August, by Alex de Jong

  The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo’ Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case’ led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

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