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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USA
Mamdani Advances His Agenda, Helps Elect DSA Candidates to Congress
30 June, byNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who took office on January 1, 2026, has already advanced his agenda and become a political king-maker. Mamdani ran promising universal childcare, lowering rents, and making buses free. He hasn’t achieved all, but he is well on his way. At the same time, he was able to dominate the recent elections in New York City.
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Britain
Burnham - a left response
29 June, by“Socialists will need to adapt our campaigns and demands to relate to the new political issues and debates that are emerging. We still need to build our eco-socialist alternative independent of the Labour Party and the Greens.”
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USA
Trump-Netanyahu Debacle: A World of Collateral Damage
28 June, byStrait of Hormuz: Nice oil shipping lane there. A real pity if something would happen to it…
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Mexico
Down with the Neoliberal Reform to ISSSTE Pensions!
27 June, by“It is a matter of basic social justice that those who have more should pay more in taxes and that workers receive higher and better wages, pensions, and working conditions. In the last year, Mexico’s 24 wealthiest individuals earned US$100 billion, an astronomical figure that contrasts sharply with the stagnation of real wages.”
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South Africa
50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising
26 June, byThe 1976 Soweto uprising sparked a resurgence of militancy and helped to undermine apartheid in South Africa.
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Recently posted Features
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Women’s history
100th Anniversary of The Woman’s Dreadnought
8 March 2014, byread article...Katherine Connelly looks at the pioneering revolutionary newspaper created by working-class suffragettes. Republished from Counterfire.
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Women and work
The Making of Capitalist Patriarchy
25 February 2014, byread article...This interview with Silvia Federici, a feminist activist and scholar, and author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation and Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle was published on The North Star website on 24 February 2014.
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Women’s Liberation
Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress
3 February 2014, byread article...In 1921, when the Communist International (Comintern) held its Third World Congress, Clara Zetkin was the most widely respected Communist outside Russia. Yet she was the victim of vigorous efforts on the eve of the congress to vilify her and drive her out of the Comintern leadership, if not from the movement. Nonetheless, she ranks, together with Lenin and Trotsky, among the dominant intellectual figures at the congress.
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Fourth International and women’s liberation
The Liberation of Women
31 January 2014, byread article...This article was written in May 1960 and originally published in Quatrième Internationale. This translation is from Fourth International, Autumn 1960. We are publishing it as part of our effort to constute an archive of the Fourth International’s writings on women’s liberation.
