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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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.
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France
Operation "Bullshit Unlimited"
12 September 2002, byread article...Only yesterday, French intellectuals overflowed with compassion. From Bosnia to Chechnya, by way of Kosovo, on every front of the new world disorder. Their silence before the imperial crusade in Afghanistan and before the criminal policy of the Sharon government in Palestine is all the more deafening. This inglorious resignation is not, alas, unrelated to the relative weakness of the anti-war mobilizations in France, compared with the demonstrations that have taken place since 7 October 2002 in most big European countries.
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Marxism
Leninism in the 21st century
16 November 2001, byread article...Daniel Bensaïd, a central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR - French section of the Fourth International) spoke on ’Leninism in the 21st century’ at the June ’Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British Socialist Workers Party. IV spoke to him afterwards.
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Women and parties
The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political Organizing
23 March 1997, byread article...“The purpose of this report is to look at the challenges to and criticisms of traditional political organizational forms, primarily those made by the women’s movement but also by other social movements, and consider whether they are well-founded or not.”
