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/For-the-right-to-self-determination-of-Ilankai-Tamils https://internationalviewpoint.org/For-the-right-to-self-determination-of-Ilankai-Tamils 2006-12-14T20:05:03Z text/html en Vickramabahu Karunarathne Sri Lanka <p>The Sri Lanka government is carrying out an undeclared war against the Tamil people. The government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has consistently breached the 2002 cease-fire agreement with the LTTE. The anti-war opposition has been put under extreme pressure.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sri-Lanka-+" rel="tag">Sri Lanka</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Discord-in-Rifondazione-over-confidence-in-Prodi https://internationalviewpoint.org/Discord-in-Rifondazione-over-confidence-in-Prodi 2006-12-09T14:57:17Z text/html en Carlos Sevilla Alonso, Salvatore Cannavò Italy <p>The provisional balance sheet of 200 days of the Prodi government could not be more discouraging. ‘Deregulation', withdrawal from Iraq according to “technical timetables” (the troops are still there), voting of war credits for the “peace mission” in Afghanistan, shipment of troops to the Lebanon, arms sales to ‘democratic' China.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Italy-+" rel="tag">Italy</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Correa-s-triumph-is-victory-against-oligarchy-and-neoliberalism https://internationalviewpoint.org/Correa-s-triumph-is-victory-against-oligarchy-and-neoliberalism 2006-12-06T16:36:11Z text/html en Margarita Aguinaga Ecuador <p>“Arise the poor of the world, stand up the slaves without bread, we advance united...” The last two months have produced a meeting of social consciousness and left politics, expressed in Correa's triumph against oligarchy and neoliberalism</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ecuador-+" rel="tag">Ecuador</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Spectacular-Breakthrough-for-Socialist-Party https://internationalviewpoint.org/Spectacular-Breakthrough-for-Socialist-Party 2006-12-05T20:00:57Z text/html en Koen Haegens Netherlands <p>‘The anarchists won the elections.' ‘The peasants have seized power.' Or was it the Maoist Red Guards? These were some of the reactions once the results were known of the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands on 22 November.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Netherlands-+" rel="tag">Netherlands</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Pre-electoral-turbulence-in-France https://internationalviewpoint.org/Pre-electoral-turbulence-in-France 2006-12-03T19:43:56Z text/html en François Sabado France Fourth International <p>In the run up to next year's presidential elections, intense skirmishing is taking place to determine who will stand for the anti-neoliberal left.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Fourth-International-45-+" rel="tag">Fourth International</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/IV384-December-2006-pdf https://internationalviewpoint.org/IV384-December-2006-pdf 2006-12-01T00:48:00Z text/html en PDF <p>Download a pdf version of this month's edition from here.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV384-December-2006-" rel="directory">IV384 - December 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-PDF-+" rel="tag">PDF</a>