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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Mexico
Violence and drug trafficking - what response from the revolutionary left?
17 June, by“Those of us who live in Mexico know that the fall of a drug lord does not mean the end of violence. The “Narco war” has taught us that after the decapitation of a cartel, power struggles ensue between interim cadres for succession, as well as acts of revenge against the Mexican state and attacks on rival cartels that will take advantage of this moment of weakness to gain influence. And this is because, even though El Mencho has fallen, the transnational structures that produce, feed and exploit these drug lords are still in place.” [1]
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USA
Four Thousand Worker Activists at Labor Notes Conference Plan to Fight
16 June, byMore than 4,000 worker activists gathered in Chicago from June 12-14 for the Labor Notes Conference where they discussed the challenges facing unions and workers, shared experiences, and planned for the fights of the future. They came from across the United States and some from countries around the world. The conference began with and was permeated with a commitment to strengthen unions, to stand up to the corporations and the government, and to improve the lives of working people.
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Cuba-USA
Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point
15 June, byWhile we note the “ Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba” we also publish a report on a solidarity delegation to Cuba from the US. [IVP]
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USA-Cuba
Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba
15 June, byAt the same time as Trump pursues his aggressive policies US citizens organize to show their solidarity with Cuba “Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point”.[IVP]
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Bolivia
Bolivia on the Edge
14 June, byDuring popular insurrections like the one underway in Bolivia, which is calling for President Rodrigo Paz’s resignation after just six months in office, the experience of time and space changes, acquiring an extraordinary charge from day to day, even hour to hour. Indigenous campesino insurgents have long characterised such moments as belonging to ‘another time’.
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Recently posted Features
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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 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.”
