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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Anti-fascism
Honoring Anti-Fascist Resistance
12 April, byread article...ON APRIL 29, 1945, Rossana Rossanda joined the massive crowds gathered on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy, where, more than 26 years earlier, Benito Mussolini’s Fascist movement began its wretched existence.
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Europe
For a different economic policy in response to the far right and Trump’s offensive
12 April, by ,read article...Éric Toussaint was interviewed by Antoine Larrache for Inprecor magazine on 5 November 2025.
Antoine Larrache: Could you provide an overview of the European Union’s economic situation in comparison to the global market?
Éric Toussaint: The countries of the European Union, including the United Kingdom, are currently facing significant challenges. Firstly, economic growth is close to zero. While we do not advocate for growth in the traditional sense, it presents a considerable issue for (…) -
Brazil
Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil
1 April, byread article...This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women’s struggles in our country and across Latin America.
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Iran
A Revolutionary Feminist Position on Iran: Vs. Authoritarianism, Vs. Imperialism, Vs. Zionism, and NO TO WAR!
31 March, byread article...A REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST position on Iran must refuse the false and damaging binary that demands choosing between defending the Islamic Republic and endorsing US-imperialist and Zionist intervention. This is a constructed choice designed to collapse political judgment into campism. It converts solidarity into a competition of moral allegiances and leaves ordinary people, workers, women, youth, and minorities to a reality shaped simultaneously by internal repression as well as external militarized destruction.
