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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USA
Trump, Pope Leo, Jesus, and the Bible
20 April, byFor the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump’s words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion.
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Spanish state
The Left at the Crossroads: Notes For Building Anew
19 April, by ,The crisis on the left and the need to start afresh from the middle.
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Africa
The ravages of agribusiness in Africa
18 April, byThe results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.
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USA
Trump Perceived as a War Criminal and a Mad Man
17 April, by“Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he’s mentally unstable.”
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Hungary
Hungary 2026: An Autopsy of Sixteen Years of Illiberalism.
16 April, byThe Hungarian legislative elections of 12 April 2026 brought to an end sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. Péter Magyar’s Tisza (Respect and Freedom [Tisztelet és Szabadság]) party won a super-majority of 138 seats out of 199, inflicting on Fidesz a defeat explained by judicial scandals, saturation of the identitarian discourse, a generational fracture, and the concrete effects of the freeze on European funds.
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Recently posted Features
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Imperialism
Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump’s Warmongering
12 February, by ,read article...While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.
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Venezuela
Venezuela after the coup
12 February, by ,read article...“Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.”
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Serbia
Serbia: Regime Crisis, Imperialist Dependence and Struggles for Self-Determination
28 January, byread article...Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region.
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Serbia
Popular mobilization under an authoritarian regime
28 January, by ,read article...Over the past year, Serbia has been swept by a mobilization—primarily student-led—of unprecedented scale since the fall of Milošević. The movement challenges the lack of democracy, corruption, and authoritarian practices of the current regime.
