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/A-nightmare-ends-towards-what-hope-in-Syria https://internationalviewpoint.org/A-nightmare-ends-towards-what-hope-in-Syria 2024-12-27T10:21:17Z text/html en Thomas Rid Syria Israel <p>Bashar al-Assad has fallen. No one will regret it. In twenty years of dictatorship and ten years of civil war, he and his clique succeeded in transforming Syria into a hellish dystopia, doubtless worse than Iraq under Saddam Hussein, although the latter had set the bar very high. Syria, or at least what was left of it, had become nothing more than a huge Captagon laboratory, run by dealers as corrupt as they were vicious. They left the Syrian people who had not left this undead country with only one prospect, misery and suffering, and only one choice: become a victim or an executioner.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV599-December-2024-" rel="directory">IV599 - December 2024</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Syria-+" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Israel-+" rel="tag">Israel</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Capitalism-carries-war-and-authoritarianism-like-the-cloud-carries-the-storm https://internationalviewpoint.org/Capitalism-carries-war-and-authoritarianism-like-the-cloud-carries-the-storm 2024-05-01T07:35:17Z text/html en Thomas Rid France Imperialism <p>“War on war! Solidarity and freedom for all peoples! Freedom for Palestine! Freedom for Ukraine! More anti-capitalist and internationalist than ever! That's what we'll be saying on 1 May.”</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV592-May-2024-" rel="directory">IV592 - May 2024</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Imperialism-+" rel="tag">Imperialism</a>