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-breath-of-red-air https://internationalviewpoint.org/A-breath-of-red-air 2006-02-27T11:01:18Z text/html en Édouard Diago Social Forum <p>The Caracas component of the polycentric 2006 World Social Forum took place from January 24th to 29th. Its exceptional character derived from the fact that it was taking place at the heart of the revolutionary process that Venezuela is experiencing.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV375-February-2006-" rel="directory">IV375 - February 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Social-Forum-+" rel="tag">Social Forum</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/When-two-worlds-collide https://internationalviewpoint.org/When-two-worlds-collide 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z text/html en Édouard Diago Venezuela <p>When Hugo Chavez became president of Venezuela in 1998, he took over the reins of a deeply depoliticized country, seriously infected with corruption and clientelism. Chavez was elected more on the basis of rejection of this old system than on a solid political project based on organised social forces on whose support he could rely.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV353-September-2003-" rel="directory">IV353 - September 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Venezuela-s-political-forces https://internationalviewpoint.org/Venezuela-s-political-forces 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z text/html en Édouard Diago Venezuela <p>Venezuela is today divided into two camps, the 'Chavistas' and the 'escualidos' ('spineless ones'). Neither of these camps is homogeneous. We attempt here an explanatory synthesis of who's who in this especially complex political panorama.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV353-September-2003-" rel="directory">IV353 - September 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/An-anti-imperialist-policy https://internationalviewpoint.org/An-anti-imperialist-policy 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z text/html en Édouard Diago Venezuela <p>For a country historically linked to the United States, the foreign policy of Hugo Chavez constitutes a significant rupture. In the name of the struggle against a unipolar world Venezuelan diplomacy has developed a range of polices on Latin American integration, the strengthening of links with OPEC and the development of economic relations with China and Russia.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV353-September-2003-" rel="directory">IV353 - September 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Attempted-coups https://internationalviewpoint.org/Attempted-coups 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z text/html en Édouard Diago Venezuela <p>After having been swept away at the elections of 1998 to 2000, the opposition began to regain hope from 2001 onwards when the government introduced new legislation; laws which protected small fishers against industrial fishing, laws on land which implemented a timid but necessary agrarian reform, new tax laws which introduce the concept of taxation in a country where nobody was used to it.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV353-September-2003-" rel="directory">IV353 - September 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-oil-curse https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-oil-curse 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z text/html en Édouard Diago Venezuela <p>In Venezuela, politics and oil policy are synonymous. Indeed, oil is today the main concern of the USA. What happens in Venezuela has, then, world repercussions.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV353-September-2003-" rel="directory">IV353 - September 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a>