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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Italy
The murderous state, presumed innocent
31 July, byThe death of Abderrahim Fakir in a working-class neighborhood of Bologna on Sunday, July 20, sparked outrage, leading thousands of people to demonstrate to demand “Truth and Justice”; this death is reminiscent of that of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020…
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Pakistan
Deaths in Pakistani controlled Kashmir
30 July, by ,Farooq Sulehria made this podcast for Struggle TV about events in Kashmir. International Viewpoint brings you the transcript. Farooq Tariq wrote on the same subject, his article follows. An appeal for solidarity has already been published “Jammu-Kashmir progressive organisations call for global solidarity”.
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India
The Cockroach Protests Are Reviving India’s Ailing Democracy
29 July, byIndia’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.
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USA
AOC for President? Will She Run? Could She Win?
28 July, by“An ally of Senator Bernie Sanders, whom she accompanied on his “Fighting Oligarchy” national tour, and of Zohran Mamdani, the DSA member who is now mayor of New York City, she has become the standard-bearer of progressives. So now everyone left of center asks: Will she run? Could she win?”
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Argentina
The Malvinas and the National Question
27 July, byA banner at the World Cup reopened a debate that goes beyond the Malvinas/Falklands issue. Faced with an internationalism that underestimates imperial hierarchies and an anti-imperialism that erases the class struggle, the left needs to recover a democratic conception of nation, sovereignty, and internationalism.
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Recently posted Features
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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.
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Britain
The 1926 General Strike in Britain
8 June, by ,read article...This 1976 pamphlet first appeared as a series of articles in the Workers News, a fortnightly journal of socialist news and analysis.
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Ukraine
The political economy of Ukraine’s war and the politics of a coming bad peace
29 May, byread article...What Moscow expected to be a war of weeks is now into its fifth year. Ukrainian railway workers, miners and energy crews keep the country running under Russian bombardment while Ukraine’s oligarchic state will not ask the rich to pay for defence. This article documents the price the Ukrainian working class is paying, the feminised volunteer infrastructure carrying what the state will not, the mass anti-corruption mobilisations, and the stakes of a reconstruction now being designed in donor conferences.
