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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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  • Madagascar

    After Rajoelina’s regime collapses - desire for a radical break

    29 October, by Paul Martial

    As international pressure mounts to demand the restoration of constitutional order, young people from GenZ and workers are sketching out what the Madagascar of tomorrow could look like.

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  • Brazil

    Oil Speaks Loudest: Environmental backsliding and the limits of Brazil’s energy transition

    28 October, by Subvertacomunica

    “The recent decision by Ibama (the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to grant the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, an environmental licence for exploratory drilling along the Equatorial Margin, near the mouth of the Amazon River, represents a huge step backwards for the country’s environmental and energy policy. It shows that the logic of fossil fuel-based development continues to dominate within the Brazilian state, something that we urgently need to overcome.”

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  • USA

    The United States Prepares for War on Venezuela

    27 October, by Dan La Botz

    The United States is preparing for war against Venezuela. While President Donald Trump has asserted that the country’s goal is to stop shipments of Venezuelan drugs to the United States, in private conversations U.S. officials have made it clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This forms part of Trump’s goal of reasserting U.S. domination in Latin America such as it exercised in the nineteenth century by gunboats and in the twentieth century by installing friendly governments.

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  • Ireland

    Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left in Ireland

    26 October, by Paul Murphy

    Catherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.

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  • Argentina

    Will Trump’s bail-out be enough for Milei?

    25 October, by Martin Hache

    On Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.

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  • USA

    Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle

    27 April 2024, by Johanna Brenner

    “Changes in public opinion have not yet brought changes to Republican-dominated state legislatures, not surprising when we consider their lop-sided gerrymandered character. Yet Republicans are now on notice, even in very, very red states.”

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  • World situation

    Global crisis, conflict and war: what internationalism for the 21st century?

    19 April 2024, by Jaime Pastor , Pierre Rousset

    “Faced with the militarisation of the world, we need a global anti-war movement. It’s easy to say, but hard to do. Can we rely on local cross-border solidarity (Ukraine-Russia, India-Pakistan) to achieve this? Or on the huge solidarity movement with Palestine? Or social forums like the one that has just taken place in Nepal?”

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  • Bensaïd Archive

    Myths and legends of domination

    30 March 2024, by Daniel Bensaïd

    In 1964 Herbert Marcuse asked in One-Dimensional Man whether it was still possible to ‘break the vicious circle of domination’. In other words, he questioned whether revolution was still possible in developed capitalist countries, where ‘the pure form of domination’ had taken shape. The working class, now linked to the system of needs ‘but not to its negation’,ii seemed bound to lose all its subversive capacity in the ‘affluent society [1]’. [2]

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  • Bensaïd Archive

    Daniel Bensaïd’s “Untimely Marx”

    30 March 2024, by Darren Roso

    Daniel Bensaïd was without a doubt the most creative and innovative Marxist to come of age in the post-1968 period. Barely any other militant of his period had been able to weave deep theoretical intervention with illuminating aesthetic form in order to wage political struggle.

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