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/Flotilla-approaches-Gaza https://internationalviewpoint.org/Flotilla-approaches-Gaza 2025-09-26T16:16:12Z text/html en Mariana Mortágua, Paul Murphy Palestine <p>The Global Sumud flotilla is on its way to Gaza. Several dozen boats will try to break the blockade and open a humanitarian corridor. Some thoughts from those on board.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IVP608-September-2025-" rel="directory">IVP608 - September 2025</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Palestine-+" rel="tag">Palestine</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Portuguese-Elections-Left-Bloc-leader-in-debate https://internationalviewpoint.org/Portuguese-Elections-Left-Bloc-leader-in-debate 2024-03-01T20:11:43Z text/html en Dave Kellaway, Mariana Mortágua Portugal <p>Portugal goes to the polls in a general election on 10 March;</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV590-March-2024-" rel="directory">IV590 - March 2024</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Portugal-+" rel="tag">Portugal</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-to-do-about-the-Debt-and-the-Euro https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-to-do-about-the-Debt-and-the-Euro 2013-09-20T14:22:23Z text/html en Bibiana Medialdea, Daniel Albarracín, Françisco Louçã, Giorgos Galanis, Mariana Mortágua, Nacho Alvarez, Özlem Onaran, Stavros Tombazos Economy European Union Debt <p>Europe is sinking into crisis and social regression under the pressure of austerity, recession and the strategy of “structural reforms”. This pressure is tightly coordinated at the European level, under the leadership of the German Government, the ECB and the European Commission. There is a broad consensus that these policies are absurd and even “illiterate”: fiscal austerity does not reduce the burden of the debt but generates a spiral of depression, more unemployment and despair among the European peoples.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV464-September-2013-" rel="directory">IV464 - September 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Economy-+" rel="tag">Economy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-European-Union-+" rel="tag">European Union</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Debt-+" rel="tag">Debt</a>