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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Britain
Defend the right to protest
26 January, by Roland RanceRoland Rance critises the ramping up of the state’s determination to further criminalise protest and calls for action to fight back
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Geopolitics
Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism
25 January, by Thierry LabicaNewly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.
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Women
France: 50 years of the Veil law: abortion, a right never won
24 January, by Manon Boltansky , Ju ChiroOn 17 January 1975, the Veil law was promulgated in France: voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) could now be carried out legally and in a safe environment. The right to contraception and abortion was a victory won by the struggles of the feminist movement in the 1970s, in France as in many other countries.
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Middle East
Two Myths About the Gaza Ceasefire
23 January, by Gilbert AchcarThere are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect last Sunday: that it was due to Trump’s pressure on Netanyahu and that it was a victory achieved by Hamas.
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Germany
Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation
22 January, by Heinrich NeuhausOne thing is indisputable: the management of Alstom, the French global manufacturer of rail technology, is sticking to its current strategy, which has been dictated by its major shareholders, and the effects of which can be seen in Mannheim-Käfertal.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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South Korea
South Korea’s Conservatives Are Trying to Cling to Power
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Brazil
Lula’s return: two years of PT rule
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USA
Trump will bring radical change to America: How will the country react?
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Austria
Government of the far right on the horizon
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Middle East
A ceasefire won’t stop Israel’s genocidal agenda
Recently posted Features
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Ukraine
Ukraine’s Debt: an instrument of pressure and spoliation in the hands of creditors
26 January, by Éric Toussaintread article...In the present article the author focuses on Ukraine’s debt since the 1990s and more particularly in the years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. It provides answers to several questions. Who are Ukraine’s creditors? How much are they owed? What do they demand in exchange for their loans? What part does the European Union play? Why does Ukraine’s integration into the EU go against the Ukrainian people’s interests? What is done with frozen Russian assets? Why should Ukraine’s debt be cancelled? Why does Zelensky oppose any cancellation? What are the alternatives to current indebtedness? Some questions are not addressed for want of space such as the stage the conflict has reached, the provision of weapons, the debates within the Left.
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Environment
Environmental and climate debt: Who is responsible?
18 January, by Maxime Perriot, Éric Toussaintread article...The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized. That recognition must take the form of cancellation of the debt of the countries of the Global South and paying of reparations by the States of the North. The latter must compel the wealthiest interests to contribute and assume responsibility for climate disruption and for taking the actions that are urgently needed to limit its consequences and its aggravation to the maximum extent possible.
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Obituary
Lennart Wallster 1944-2024
15 January, by Håkan Blomqvistread article...Lennart Wallster […] was strongly associated with SP’s very first days in the late 1960’s and the commitment to building the political and organizational center of the Fourth International.
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Fourth International
Why do socialists organise internationally?
31 December 2024, by Dave Kellawayread article...What are the arguments for eco socialists to be part of a revolutionary international?
France
Put an end to Macron and the Fifth Republic!
Statement by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA-l’Anticapitaliste)
December 2024
After the vote of no confidence, let’s finish with Macron and the 5th Republic!
The result was clear: 331 votes in favour of the no confidence motion. The Barnier government resigned and the austerity budget law fell. This illegitimate government, a symbol of Macron’s decomposition of the Macron presidency, had no future. The promise of ever more austerity and authoritarianism has been rejected by the vast majority of the population.
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Ukrainian care workers’ union growth shows strength, resilience during war
November 2024
In the heart of a war-torn nation, Ukraine’s care workers are showing extraordinary resilience and unity in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Through their union Be Like Nina (BLN), these healthcare heroes are organizing under challenging circumstances not just to protect their livelihoods and improve their jobs but also to strengthen a healthcare system stretched to its limits.
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Standing in solidarity with the PepsiCo workers’ strike in Brazil!
November 2024
“Brazilian civil society, social movements and trade unions are campaigning in solidarity with the PepsiCo strike.”
- read article...Marxism/Fourth International
Publishing a new collection of writings by Daniel Bensaïd
October 2024
New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France’s most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention.
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The Summer ‘Uni’, a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation
September 2024
The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism’ with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.
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