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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Indonesia
Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians’ Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims
31 August, by Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API)The death of Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver who participated in mass action and was run over by security apparatus vehicles, cannot be viewed as an isolated incident. This event is part of the face of systematic state violence; the apparatus is used to silence the people’s voices with impunity that continues to be allowed.
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Ukraine
Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine
30 August, by Helene VadstenThe Ukrainian left acts where official systems fail. Bjarke Friborg and Helene Vadsten visited Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Here is Helene’s accout of the visit.
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South Africa
If only land were expropriated in South Africa…
29 August, by Fani Ncapayi, Mercia AndrewsSouth Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa’s Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.
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Famine
Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North’s Indifference
28 August, by Gilbert AchcarThe famines in Gaza and Sudan: how they compare and what lessons can be drawn from the world powers’ inaction towards them.
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USA/Russia
Negotiations in Alaska
27 August, by PosleDoes Trump’s peace deal have a future?
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Cymru/Wales
Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025
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South Africa
Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories
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Syria
Syria’s future won’t be secure through Israel normalisation
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USA
Trump’s Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC
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Afghanistan
Women in the Shadow of Global Fascism: The Narrative of an Afghan Girl & a Truth Which Knows No Boundaries
Recently posted Features
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Indonesia/Netherlands
The Netherlands and the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia
24 April, by Alex de Jongread article...The military coup d’état in Indonesia in 1965 was the beginning of one of the 20th century’s greatest crimes: the killing of over half a million of people and the torture and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands more. Much has been written about the involvement of Western powers such as the United States in the military coup. Less is known about the response of the Netherlands. Declassified documents show that Dutch authorities regarded the military coup with sympathy and sought to support it.
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Rearming Europe
Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament
20 April, by Anti*Capitalist Resistanceread article...ACR stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine fighting to defend their country against occupation and annexation. We have done so since Putin’s first aggression in 2014. We therefore support the right of Ukraine to obtain the weapons and aid necessary for its fight against Russian imperialism.
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Europan rearmament
For a campaign against rearmament, wars and imperialism
15 April, by Gippò Mukendi Nganduread article...We are entering a new era. Trump’s return to the White House is so disruptive that it is causing the historic crisis of transatlantic relations as they were constituted after the Second World War. The new Republican and reactionary administration aims to exploit the new situation of ‘geopolitical chaos’ to revive the role of the United States of America through an authoritarian turn, based on an alliance with the big hi-tech capitalists such as Elon Musk, and through a new foreign policy that focuses on imperialist national interests.
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War and peace
In support of “synchronized global disarmament”
13 April, by Gilbert Achcarread article...At a time when everything is spiralling out of control in the East, when alliances as evil as the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin duo are being forged, and when our leaders are advocating rearmament, we wanted to take some time to think about it. With Gilbert Achcar, a specialist in international relations and professor at the University of London, we discussed ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.[Gaëlle Desnos-CQFD]
Ukraine/Palestine solidarity
Message of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) to Freedom Flotilla
August 2025
We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Having lived through invasion, occupation, forced displacement, and separation from our loved ones, many of us know too well what these mean.
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Brazilian activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla
August 2025
The Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail on 31 August heading for Gaza via Tunis in yet another attempt to break the blockade. Internationally-known figures such as Greta Thunberg, actor Susan Sarandon and Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, will be aboard. [1] As will Fourth Internationalist activists from Brazil and Ireland.
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Union president to get married
August 2025
Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war who defended Mariupol and then spent 20 months in Russian captivity, has just been elected as the new president of the LGBTQ+ military union.
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Kryvyi Rih — Vermont — Paris!
August 2025
A unique event took place at the Kryvyi Rih branch of the Social Movement NGO — we had the honour of welcoming special guests: Senator Tanya Vyhovsky from Vermont, USA, and Nico Dix, representative of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA-A). It was an inspiring meeting, filled with valuable experiences and sincere conversations!
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You give us corruption, we give you revolution!
Statement by Sotsialnyi Rukh
July 2025
Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.
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