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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Greenland
Defend Greenland against the US’s raid - without any illusions about the Kingdom of Denmark and the EU
27 January, byStatement adopted by the Executive Committee of SAP (Socialistisk Arbejderpolitiks), Danish section of the Fourth International, on 26 January 2026.
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Kurdistan
Rojava: Political Autonomy, Social Bases, and Imperial Dynamics
27 January, by“Debating the lessons of the experience of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria should not take precedence over our duty of solidarity; on the contrary, it should complement it.”
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Iran
Beyond the Headlines: Why Iran’s Protest Wave Can’t Be Reduced to One Name
26 January, by“the street is the product of a decade of accumulated pressure, repression, and scattered bottom-up organizing. Famous figures arrive late. The real danger is that, instead of strengthening the movement’s diversity and real field experience, projects emerge whose goal is not to open a road to freedom—but to manage and control a movement that has already broken out of control.”
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USA
Minneapolis General Strike and Federal Agents Murder Another Person
25 January, by“The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance.”
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Venezuela
Epitaph for a Revolution?
24 January, by“The central task is to defend the homeland’s sovereignty with anti-imperialism from those who live by their labour—that is, every step in defence of the Republic must be accompanied by the demand for redemocratisation of Venezuelan society and wage justice. There is no territorial sovereignty without political sovereignty.“
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Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
21 September 2006, byread article...An important conceptual tool for responding to such dynamics is the theory of uneven and combined development formulated by Leon Trotsky as a contribution to the rich body of Marxist analysis.
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Twelve comments plus one more, to continue the debate with John Holloway
16 September 2006, byread article...Daniel Bensaid continues the debate on whether the left can change the world without taking power.
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Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs
Dialectics and Revolution
11 September 2006, byread article...There seems to exist an intimate link between the dialectical method and revolutionary theory: not by chance, the high period of revolutionary thinking in the XXth century, the years 1905-1925, are also those of some of the most interesting attemps to use the hegelo-marxist dialectics as an instrument of knowledge and action. Let me try to illustrate the connexion between dialectics and revolution in the thought of three distinct Marxist figures : Leon D. Trotsky, Vladimir I. Lenin and György Lukacs.
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Permanent Revolution
The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
9 September 2006, byread article...Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), was one of the most astonishing political breakthroughs in Marxist thinking at the begining of the XXth century.
