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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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  • 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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  • Algeria

    Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity

    24 October, by Amel Hadjadj

    “On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”

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  • Greece

    The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!

    23 October, by Andreas Sartzekis

    On 1st October 1, a general strike was called in Greece by the GSEE (single private sector confederation), ADEDY (public sector federation) and many other federations and unions. It was very popular and focused on the rejection of a monstrous bill: allowing a13-hour working day for the same employer (we know that many Greeks have long been reduced to having two jobs).

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  • Obituary

    Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!

    8 July 2021, by John Meehan, Socialist Democracy

    Daniel Rayner O’Connor Lysaght, 30 January 1941 (Llanishen, Cardiff) - 2 July 2021 (Dublin). Founding member of the Irish section of the Fourth International, historian notably of the Limerick soviet of 1919.

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  • Marxism

    The Chinese Experience and the Theory of Permanent Revolution

    8 July 2021, by Pierre Rousset

    The Chinese revolution is one of the major events of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, it covers the entire period from the aftermath of the Russian Revolution to the end of the 1960s, when the People’s Republic descended into the conflicts of the ill-named “Cultural Revolution”. Revolutionary processes that constitute links between such distant periods in this manner are rare.
    The history of revolutions and counter-revolutions is thus played out to a large extent in the Far East, (…)

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  • Feminism in France

    Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …

    28 June 2021, by Josette Trat

    “We can see that a new wave of feminist struggles of a mass and international nature is sweeping the planet against gender-based and sexual violence and on issues of abortion rights in particular. We can only rejoice. Let us hope that this will make it possible to revitalize all feminist struggles within a unitary framework […].”

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  • Sexual politics

    Marxism and the oppression of trans people

    28 June 2021, by Arya Meroni

    The following text comes from notes for an educational for Anticapitalistas that I have reworked. The aim was to look back at the “polemics” posed by the new transphobic currents in feminism, from a theoretical and strategic point of view and in the context of the debates on the “Trans law”. It is not, therefore, a text that goes into the issues explored in depth or that claims to be exhaustive, but rather an introduction to the theoretical and strategic problematization of trans oppression from a Marxist perspective.

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