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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Climate
There’s a class struggle under the sun; the heat is eating away at wages
13 July, by“It’s hot. For some, it’s just a matter of temperature. For the working class, however, it’s already a matter of health and finances: less income, higher prices, greater vulnerability. “The severe heat wave sweeping across Europe threatens people’s health, their livelihoods, and their ability to work,” Jessie Ruth Schleypen, a climate economist at Climate Analytics, told Bloomberg.”
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USA
Progressives Strategic Failure: A Warning
12 July, byDemocratic Party candidates are perceived by many voters as part of the system, part of the establishment, which indeed most are. The most common profession of Democratic congressional representatives and senators is law. Most don’t seem to share the common experiences of working class and lower middle-class people, because in fact they don’t. Lawyers’ average incomes range between $150,000 and $250,000, while the median income for American workers is $45,000 to $64,000,
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Germany
Forcing Refugees To Return to Syria is a Bad Idea
11 July, by“Not only are the conditions for a safe and dignified return to Syria not given. Without economic recovery and the reconstruction of critical state infrastructure a mass return of refugees to Syria would only worsen socio-economic conditions within the country and threaten large sectors of society dependent on remittances to survive.”
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Palestine
Israel targets and kills children
10 July, byTwo damning reports show that, in both Gaza and the West Bank, Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.
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G7 summit
The G7: the imperialist order under Trump’s leadership
9 July, byHeld in the shadow of Donald Trump, the G7 summit served above all to confirm the alignment of Western powers with US strategic and energy interests. Behind the declarations of principle, this summit points to strengthened imperialist cooperation, still built on the backs of the people.
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Recently posted Features
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Solidarity with Ukraine
Two Fronts: How Russia and the Ukrainian State Pressured Civil Society in 2025
17 June, byread article...“This review draws on ZMINA’s findings while situating them within the broader picture documented by Ukraine’s democratic socialist left — the movements fighting since 2022 on two fronts simultaneously: against Russian recolonisation and against the neoliberal state and far-right at home.”
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Economy
Global profits: an upward turn?
17 June, byread article...At the end of 2025, corporate profits in the major economies accelerated after stagnating in 2024. The global figure below is calculated from a weighted (by GDP) average of profits in the US, UK, Japan, Germany and China (taken from national accounts and in national currencies).
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Feminism
Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
9 June, byread article...“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”
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India
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism - A Balance Sheet
9 June, byread article...The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all-India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India’s TV channels and much of the print media owned by a small number of houses all aligned with dominant capitalist groups that support the Modi government, the predictions had been for a massive BJP and NDA sweep. Some Exit Polls even gave them close to 400 seats in the 543 member parliament. In reality the BJP won 240 seats, less than a majority, and even with all its allies it had just 293 seats. It was evident that the fascist chariot was slowing down.
