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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Sweden
The Right Loses the Election – Social Democracy Records a Historic Low
1 October, byThe policies pursued since 2022 have been among the most reactionary, racist, and repressive in modern Swedish history. Examples include restrictions on the right to asylum, attempts to retroactively revoke residence permits, significantly stricter requirements for obtaining Swedish citizenship, stop-and-search zones in working-class suburbs, repressive legislation that allows 14-year-olds to be imprisoned, deportations of young people separated from their families, legislative changes that threaten democracy, and welfare reforms that severely worsen conditions for the poorest and for those without citizenship.
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Brazil
Elections Crucial to Curbing Far Right
30 September, by ,The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the anti-capitalist left have two gigantic challenges to face simultaneously in the coming Brazilian elections: to contribute to the broader struggle against the main Brazilian expression of global neo-fascism, and to build a radical and independent left pole.
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Spanish state
The spark that lit a prairie fire: let’s organise a hot autumn
29 September, byOn Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain, there are thousands of evictions every year. The housing movement fights against them every day, often in the face of a media blackout that looks the other way when it comes to a tragedy that is part of everyday life in working-class neighbourhoods.
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USA
Protestors Rally against Mass Murderers Speaking at U.N. General Assembly
28 September, byHundreds marched in three separate demonstrations to protest the mass murderers—President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—speaking at the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last week. The event became a kind of macabre circus with these monsters in the big ring as some delegates walked out while others protested outside.
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USA
A Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror
27 September, byIN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, from Venezuela, entered the United States legally and is seeking asylum. He is now in ICE detention with his serious gunshot wounds inadequately treated.
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Recently posted Features
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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.
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Transgender socialism
27 March, byread article...There remains a world to win for transgender people, but what kind of socialism is capable of winning it? Echo Fortune gives her answer.
