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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Britain
Burnham - a left response
29 June, by“Socialists will need to adapt our campaigns and demands to relate to the new political issues and debates that are emerging. We still need to build our eco-socialist alternative independent of the Labour Party and the Greens.”
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USA
Trump-Netanyahu Debacle: A World of Collateral Damage
28 June, byStrait of Hormuz: Nice oil shipping lane there. A real pity if something would happen to it…
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Mexico
Down with the Neoliberal Reform to ISSSTE Pensions!
27 June, by“It is a matter of basic social justice that those who have more should pay more in taxes and that workers receive higher and better wages, pensions, and working conditions. In the last year, Mexico’s 24 wealthiest individuals earned US$100 billion, an astronomical figure that contrasts sharply with the stagnation of real wages.”
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South Africa
50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising
26 June, byThe 1976 Soweto uprising sparked a resurgence of militancy and helped to undermine apartheid in South Africa.
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Capitalism
Earth’s first trillionaire – a damning indictment of late capitalism
25 June, byA man who does Nazi salutes and promotes race wars has become the world’s first trillionaire. Simon Hannah makes the case for a political revolution
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Recently posted Features
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France
The French elections and our strategic project
28 April 2007, byread article...A long interview on the political project of revolutionary marxists, with an introduction reflecting on the outcome of the first round of the French presidential elections on 20 April 2007.
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France
“The Presidential campaign is rotting French political life”
11 February 2007, byread article...The failure of the anti-neoliberal left in France to agree a united candidate for the coming presidential elections has caused great controversy. For some leftists the LCR shares the blame, for refusing to back any candidate who is equivocal about participation in a ’left’ government with the neoliberal Socialist Party. Daniel Bensaïd explains the LCR’s intransigence on this point - and the damage being done to the French body politic by the campaign.
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A new debate is opening
The Return of Strategy
2 February 2007, byread article...In the light of developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Italy and France, a new debate is developing. According to Bensaid the ’utopian moment’ of the Global Justice Movement in the early part of the decade is being replaced with a more hard-headed grappling with political strategy.
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Luxemburg
The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
23 September 2006, byread article...Talk presented March 21 at an International Conference - organized under the name “Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought and Its Contemporary Value” - at Wuhan University by the School of Philosophy and The Institute of Marxist Philosophy in the People’s Republic of China March 20-22, 2006.
