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.
More than 4,000 worker activists gathered in Chicago from June 12-14 for the Labor Notes Conference where they discussed the challenges facing unions and workers, shared experiences, and planned for the fights of the future. They came from across the United States and some from countries around the world. The conference began with and was permeated with a commitment to strengthen unions, to stand up to the corporations and the government, and to improve the lives of working people.
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While we note the “ Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba” we also publish a report on a solidarity delegation to Cuba from the US. [IVP]
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At the same time as Trump pursues his aggressive policies US citizens organize to show their solidarity with Cuba “Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point”.[IVP]
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During popular insurrections like the one underway in Bolivia, which is calling for President Rodrigo Paz’s resignation after just six months in office, the experience of time and space changes, acquiring an extraordinary charge from day to day, even hour to hour. Indigenous campesino insurgents have long characterised such moments as belonging to ‘another time’.
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Across continents, something is beginning to take shape again. It’s not yet a finished alignment, nor a settled strategy nor even a unified political perspective. But a movement, hesitant, uneven, and sometimes contradictory, toward renewed internationalism.
read article...This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.
Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.
The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.
Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July. But its not only in Britain and Denmark that Mick is mourned - the proudest achievement of his political life was his involvement in International Workers’ Aid, a campaign of practical solidarity with multi-ethnic Bosnia. The tribute below, from Ulf B Andersson from Swedish Workers’ Aid, was read at his funeral by former Danish MEP Søren Sondergaard who first met Mick through the campaign. The second piece was written for his memorial meeting in London, also addressed by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell by Danish comrade Lone Degn. Establishing a proper archive for IWA would be the best tribute we could pay to Mick - Eds
The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has announced the creation of a new organisation: the All-Ukrainian Union of Combatants, Military Personnel and Veterans.
- read article...Statement by Democracia Socialista (Socialist Democracy) Fourth International section in.Puerto Rico)
- read article...From 18 to 25 July 2026, the Movement for Socialism (BfS/MPS) of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Internationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO) in Germany, is organising the 41st summer camp of the Fourth International.
- read article...The New Fascist International, by Ugo Palheta. We need £2,000 to finance the translation
- read article...On 4 April 2026, on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of NATO, the Global Anti-Militarist Webinar was held, organised by the “No to NATO” initiative, created following the appeal of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TIP), in which members of the Fourth International are active. Bringing together speakers from several dozen countries and nearly 200 participants, this webinar called for the organization of an International Anti-Imperialist Peace Summit in June 2026, in response to the summit of this criminal organization planned in Turkey. We are releasing the final statement of the webinar.
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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