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.
-
Syria
Where is Ahmad al-Chareh’s Syria heading?
11 February, by ,“Daher provides an update on the worrying developments under Ahmad al-Chareh’s new government. He also highlights the opportunities opening up for working people and social movements, provided they prove capable of resisting sectarianism and ethnic discrimination.”
read article... -
Portugal
In the face of climate catastrophe, Portugal mobilizes vote against the far right
10 February, byAntónio José Seguro was elected President of the Republic of Portugal on Sunday with 67% of the vote, comfortably beating the neo-fascist candidate he faced in the second round, André Ventura (33%).
read article... -
China
Purges and Regime Crisis in China
9 February, byThe dismissal of General Zhang Youxia was officially announced on January 24. This is another step in the purges that have been taking place within the Chinese army’s general staff. Zhang was considered “untouchable” given his supposed closeness to Xi Jinping. As for the Central Military Commission (CMC), it is now a hollow shell, having lost five of its seven members. Xi continues to clear the field around him, contrary to any form of collegiality.
read article... -
USA
Criticism of Trump by Democrats, Republicans Grows as his Support Falls
8 February, by“Now things have changed. Republicans have criticized his immigrant deportation policies, his racist posts, and his threat to take over the election process. At the same time support for Trump is declining as shown in polls.”
read article... -
Germany/Hungary
Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists
7 February, byGus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary
read article...
Recently posted Features
-
Marxism
Ernest Mandel and the Marxian Theory of Bureaucracy
26 July 2005, byread article...The emergence and growth of bureaucracy over the last two hundred years has been the subject of considerable discussion among social scientists. Ernest Mandel’s work provides a powerful Marxian alternative to the Stalinist, social-democratic and bourgeois theories that deny the possibility of democratically organized workers’ struggles.
-
Trotskyists and the Second World War
1976 - Trotskyists and Resistance in the Second World War
31 May 2005, byread article...During the Second World War, revolutionary socialists argued, in the face of huge repression, that the German-Japanese ‘Axis’ and the US-British ‘Allies’ were fighting an imperialist war; and that working people should support neither side.
-
A Journey with Livio Maitan
Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
19 January 2005, byread article...Lidia Cirillo reflects on nearly 40 years fighting for revolutionary marxism in Italy alongside Livio Maitan. She discusses the victories and defeats of the Italian Fourth International section, and the strengths of Maitan’s political vision which historically justified his work, even while he was apparently ’on the margins’.
-
Marxism
Theses of resistance
9 December 2004, byread article...Daniel Bensaïd makes a bold attempt to track the theoretical challenges faced by Marxism today.
