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.
Recently posted Features
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The End of History?
What Is A Revolution?
30 December 2003, byread article...Revolutions are historical facts of life. Almost all major states in today’s world are born from revolutions. Whether one likes it or not, our century has seen something like three dozen revolutions-some victorious, others defeated-and there is no sign that we have come to the end of the revolutionary experience.
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Revolutionary organizing
1983: Vanguard Parties
28 December 2003, byread article...What do marxists really mean by ’vanguard parties’? How are they built?
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Revolutionary History
1971: Rosa Luxemburg and German Social Democracy
1 January 2003, byread article...The real place of Rosa Luxemburg has still to be located precisely in the history of the revolutionary movement. The disintegration of the Stalinist monolith has meant that, while many have acknowledged her merits, they have hastened to add that "she belongs to the pre-1914 epoch". Ernest Mandel explains myth and reality about Rosa Luxemburg.
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Brazil
Principles flouted
12 September 2002, byread article...Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has, in the course of the past 20 years, developed a politics of class independence while accumulating a quantity of experiences in social struggles and municipal government, notably through ’participatory democracy’. These founding principles are being flouted in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections.
