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
Trump, Pope Leo, Jesus, and the Bible
20 April, byFor the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump’s words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion.
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Spanish state
The Left at the Crossroads: Notes For Building Anew
19 April, by ,The crisis on the left and the need to start afresh from the middle.
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Africa
The ravages of agribusiness in Africa
18 April, byThe results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.
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USA
Trump Perceived as a War Criminal and a Mad Man
17 April, by“Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he’s mentally unstable.”
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Hungary
Hungary 2026: An Autopsy of Sixteen Years of Illiberalism.
16 April, byThe Hungarian legislative elections of 12 April 2026 brought to an end sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. Péter Magyar’s Tisza (Respect and Freedom [Tisztelet és Szabadság]) party won a super-majority of 138 seats out of 199, inflicting on Fidesz a defeat explained by judicial scandals, saturation of the identitarian discourse, a generational fracture, and the concrete effects of the freeze on European funds.
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Recently posted Features
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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’.
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Marxism
Theses of resistance
9 December 2004, byread article...Daniel Bensaïd makes a bold attempt to track the theoretical challenges faced by Marxism today.
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Marxist Theory
1990 - Communism
31 December 2003, byread article...Ernest Mandel outlines the orthodox Marxist view of the stages of transition after the fall of capitalism.
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Marxism
Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness
30 December 2003, byread article...Once it is understood that the Leninist theory of organisation tries to answer the problems of the current potential for revolution and of the revolutionary subject, this theory then leads directly to the question of historical pedagogy, i.e., the problem of transforming potential class consciousness into actual class consciousness, and trade-unionist consciousness into political, revolutionary consciousness.
