https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 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. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Why-we-should-defend-Secularism https://internationalviewpoint.org/Why-we-should-defend-Secularism 2005-03-31T21:55:41Z text/html en Alex Cowper Marxism Britain Religion <p>Religion is not simply an expression of alienation, it is a protest against it. Religion is not just ‘the opium of the people', according to Marx, it is ‘the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world.'</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-Marxism-and-Religion-76-" rel="directory">Marxism and Religion</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Britain-+" rel="tag">Britain</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Religion-+" rel="tag">Religion</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Direct-Democracy-in-Brazil https://internationalviewpoint.org/Direct-Democracy-in-Brazil 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z text/html en Alex Cowper Brazil New parties of the left Reviews <p>For fifteen years or so, beginning in the late eighties in the southern city of Porto Alegre, there was a radical experiment in direct democracy which involved thousands of citizens in improving the conditions under which they lived. This experiment was called the Participatory Budget (PB).</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV364-February-2005-" rel="directory">IV364 - February 2005</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Brazil-+" rel="tag">Brazil</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-New-parties-of-the-left-+" rel="tag">New parties of the left</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Reviews-291-+" rel="tag">Reviews</a>