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The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities

2026-04-12T10:23:29Z

“It is through all these events that the alliances necessary to counter fascism and imperialism are being forged. It is up to us to involve the trade unions, human rights organizations, feminist and LGBTQI+ movements, anti-racist organizations, those campaigning for Palestine, and those standing in solidarity with the Ukrainian and the Iranian people. It is in this way – and by defending our eco-socialist revolutionary perspectives – that we will build the movement needed to change the world.”

- Features / Brazil, Latin America, Antifascism, Anti-imperialism

Ernest Mandel: partybuilder and pedagogue

Penelope Duggan — 2025-07-22T18:32:07Z

“However, Ernest was also a practical revolutionary convinced of the need to build revolutionary organizations, both the section in Belgium and the Fourth International worldwide.”

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Obituary, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

International Viewpoint Online is twenty years old!

Penelope Duggan — 2025-01-01T16:19:00Z

“The role of International Viewpoint as the English language of the publication of the Fourth International is vital. English is, thanks to the imperialist past and present of English-speaking countries, a language that is widely read and spoken and used for international access in all continents.”

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Fourth International

Family-friendly France?

Penelope Duggan — 2024-03-13T15:24:00Z

“That women's ability to have children should be abused in this way, making it a tool at the service of “nation”, and in such militaristic terms may make our blood run cold - but it should also fire us up with anger.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / France, Women

Women on the front line everywhere!

Penelope Duggan — 2023-03-08T07:26:16Z

“Feminist and women's movements will always be a central part of any movement that fights for real change in society because women have a real interest in changing capitalist and patriarchal class society.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Women

“The priority is to win against Macron's candidate, but also against the PS candidate, who broke the agreement here“

Penelope Duggan — 2022-06-07T13:31:37Z

“This electoral campaign mobilizing the forces of the left, including the NPA, must serve to reinforce this readiness to mobilize in a united and collective way to face the attacks of a Macron bis government or, in the case of an Assembly with a left majority, the blockages of the system against the implementation of the NUPES programme.”

- IV569 - June 2022 / France

The Fourth International held its 2021 International Committee online

Penelope Duggan — 2022-01-20T13:01:25Z

This meeting was held online. The texts adopted can be found here, on the new fourth.international site.

- IC 2021

An exceptional militant life

Ensemble!, Penelope Duggan — 2021-05-24T10:47:59Z

Many tributes were paid to the Fourth Internationalist and and eminent medical researcher Gérard Chaouat. Here we publish two in translation. Others can be found (in French) on the ESSF site in a dedicated rubric.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / France, Obituary, Fourth International

“One of the indispensable ones ”

Penelope Duggan — 2021-05-24T10:47:48Z

The driving force of Mick Gosling's life was the defence of working people's rights and a commitment to socialism to achieve that.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Britain, Obituary

Nearly there for 10 000 target!

Penelope Duggan — 2020-05-29T18:57:39Z

On 6 May we launched an appeal for 10 000 euros to strengthen and extend our online presence - something that has been and continues to be particularly necessary in this lockdown period.

- News from around the world / Fourth International