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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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.
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Marxist Theory
Foreword
30 December 2003, byread article...Every branch of knowledge has a central concept that expresses the fundamental feature or function of the sector of reality it investigate and deals with. The pivotal category of political science is the state.
