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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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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Climate
Heatwaves & strategy
26 July, by“Whilst ecosocialism has made great strides in its ability to offer a comprehensive alternative for society, its supporters must still prove that they are capable of engaging in politics – that is, of fighting for power.”
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Recently posted Features
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Strategy
Power and urgency in the ecological crisis
20 May, by ,read article...The urgency of the global crisis of capitalism, particularly because of the ecological crisis, is undeniable. Answering this question requires a clear vision of the question of power and the transition to another society.
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USA
Learning & Advancing from Setbacks
20 May, byread article...“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”
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Strategy
The Self-Emancipation of Workers and the Oppressed: Lessons from the German and Spanish Revolutions
20 May, byread article...“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves’. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”
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China/US
Leftist studies in China and the United States
20 May, by ,read article...“Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”
