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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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
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Venezuela
Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation
6 February, by“To tell the truth, however painful it may be, there are no possibilities at this time for unified mobilisations that demonstrate anti-imperialist national unity. Maduro’s regime has led us to this disaster.”
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Mynamar/India
Why Myanmar’s Election Matters for India’s Northeast
5 February, byThe election marks a new phase in the junta’s attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders.
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Greece
A historic peasant mobilization in Greece
4 February, byFor two months, Greek peasants mobilized with a partial blockade of major roads. While this type of movement has occurred before, this one is remarkable for its duration, the number of participants, its geographical scope, and also the way it was organized.
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Syria
On the Recent Agreement Between Damascus and the Kurdish Administration
3 February, by“There is therefore little doubt that the present compromise has not resolved the conflict but has instead shifted it from a military to a political phase. This new phase will involve a political struggle that continues the war by other means, just as war itself is a continuation of politics by other means, as the maxim goes.”
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Recently posted Features
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Basic Theories of Karl Marx
Historical Materialism
30 December 2003, byread article...Outside his specific economic theories, Marx’s main contribution to the social sciences has been his theory of historical materialism. Its starting point is anthropological. Human beings cannot survive without social organisation.
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Marxist Theory
The Proletariat in Power
30 December 2003, byread article...When we say that the state remains in existence up to and including the transitional society between capitalism and socialism, the question arises whether the working class still needs a state when it takes power.
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Marxist Theory
The Bourgeois State: the Face of Everyday Reality
30 December 2003, byread article...Through the struggle waged by the labour movement certain institutions of the bourgeois state become both more subtle and more complex.
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Marxist Theory
Origin and Development of the State in the History of Societies
30 December 2003, byread article...The state did not always exist. Certain sociologists and other representatives of academic political science are in error when they speak of the state in primitive societies. What they are really doing is identifying the state with the community. In so doing, they strip the state of its special characteristic.
