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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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  • Zambia

    Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

    1 May, by Paul Martial

    Despite recurring environmental disasters and the dangers to the population, the government of Zambia continues its extractivist policy. The southern African country has once again been hit by major pollution. 50 million tonnes of acidic sludge were discharged into the watercourse running alongside the Chinese company Sino Metals in Chambishi, which processes copper ores.

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  • USA

    Trump and America: One-hundred days in the waiting room of fascism

    30 April, by Dan La Botz

    Since taking office 100 days ago, President Donald Trump has been engaged in destroying America’s liberal, democratic state and its social welfare systems, taking away citizens’ and non-citizens’ rights, and attacking the institutions of civil society such as universities and the media. Trump’s attack on our government and our society has shocked, disoriented, and disconcerted the American people. The resistance has been growing, but is still too divided, small, and weak to stop Trump

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  • Argentina

    Argentina: opposition to Milei revives

    29 April, by Elias Vola

    After many months without a significant opposition movement to the government of President Javier Milei on the streets of Argentina, the 36-hour cross-industry strike of 9-10 April and the social reality of the country have brought the movement back to life.

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  • Greece

    Greece: anger in the streets

    28 April, by Andreas Sartzekis

    The nationwide mobilization in Greece on 9 April, called by GSEE (the only private-sector confederation), ADEDY (the only public-sector federation) and the entire trade union network, was the measure of social anger, even if the huge rallies of 28 February (at least 1.5 million in the streets across the country) were a long way off.

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  • USA

    Trump reinvents war capitalism

    27 April, by William Donaura

    Believing that the United States is being mistreated in international trade, Trump, speaking before an audience of auto union members gathered at the White House, announced measures that would amount to nothing less than a declaration of economic independence...

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  • USA

    From Slaveholders to Sanders: A Brief History of the US Democratic Party, for British Readers

    13 April 2016, by Bill Crane

    American socialist Bill Crane provides a brief history of the Democratic Party from its inception to the present, and asks how revolutionaries might relate to the movement behind presidential nominee Bernie Sanders.

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  • Middle East

    What do Syrian and Lebanese activists think?

    12 April 2016, by Miriyam Aouragh

    Miriyam Aouragh introduces interviews with activists Syrian and Lebanese that aim to cut through the confusion that has clouded much of the British left in recent months. The activists’ responses to questions about the nature of Daesh, the role of sectarianism and whether class can still be a source of analysis in the uprising, how we should regard the Kurdish resistance, what differences does receiving weapons or help from western powers make, and what can we do here to support their movements, follow Miriyam’s introduction. [1]

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  • Syria:

    Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process

    1 March 2016, by Joseph Daher

    This is the English language version of an interview that was done for the Greek publication Ela Liberta.

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  • Sexual politics

    The programs of neoliberal feminism

    8 January 2016, by Linda Gordon

    Neoliberalism isn’t just harmful economics. Here is a look at its gender side.
    Academics and a few journalists have been writing about neoliberal feminism for some time. But most of them discuss it theoretically. Few recognize how neoliberal assumptions saturate specific proposals for advancing women, or how these proposals do not actually address women’s inequality, especially the inequality multiplied by race and class. At best these proposals are feeble in relation to most women’s problems, and they may even be part of the problem.

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