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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The End of History?
What Is A Revolution?
30 December 2003, byread article...Revolutions are historical facts of life. Almost all major states in today’s world are born from revolutions. Whether one likes it or not, our century has seen something like three dozen revolutions-some victorious, others defeated-and there is no sign that we have come to the end of the revolutionary experience.
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Revolutionary organizing
1983: Vanguard Parties
28 December 2003, byread article...What do marxists really mean by ’vanguard parties’? How are they built?
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Revolutionary History
1971: Rosa Luxemburg and German Social Democracy
1 January 2003, byread article...The real place of Rosa Luxemburg has still to be located precisely in the history of the revolutionary movement. The disintegration of the Stalinist monolith has meant that, while many have acknowledged her merits, they have hastened to add that "she belongs to the pre-1914 epoch". Ernest Mandel explains myth and reality about Rosa Luxemburg.
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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.
