International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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.
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USA
Supreme Court Guts 1965 Voting Rights Act
9 May, by“I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote,” she stated. “I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity.”
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Algeria
The other 8 May, 1945: a mass colonial massacre in Algeria
8 May, byWhile VE (Victory in Europe) is celebrated on 8 May, a huge massacre began on that day in 1945 in Algeria. Fabrice Riceputi, historian and author of several books, looks back at the events which occurred 81 years ago.
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Guinea
Guinea in the spiral of dictatorship
7 May, byThe latest measure to dissolve political parties in Guinea reinforces a dictatorship that prefers to adopt an extractivist policy at all costs rather than respond to the social needs of the population. Forty political parties were dissolved on the night of Friday 6 to Saturday 7 March by the Guinean government, on the eve of the legislative elections scheduled for May 2026.
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World today
The tortuous paths of resistance
6 May, byIran, Lebanon, Ukraine, Palestine, Mali, Congo, Sudan... The warlike hotbeds seem to be ever more numerous, embodying the extent of the capitalist crisis and also giving the measure of the stakes in facing it.
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USA
May Day: No Oligarchs, No ICE, No War
5 May, byTens of thousands of working people across the United States joined the May Day Strong protests in 3,500 cities demanding “Workers over billionaires,” “No ICE” (immigration police) and “No War.”
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Recently posted Features
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Iran
Iran and the Western left
6 May, byread article...As occupations and wars intensify, anti-imperialism has become a key priority for the global left. This has raised questions about how to organise and mobilise a mass anti-imperialist movement.
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Bangladesh
The Role of CPB-ML Since August 5, 2024: A Marxist-Leninist Analysis
1 May, byread article...The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist), or CPB-ML, has re-emerged in a new light following the mass upheavals of August 5, 2024. Rooted in Dhaka and drawing on deep traditions of left-wing militancy and peasant struggle, CPB-ML’s role since this pivotal moment has taken on strategic significance—especially when analyzed through Leon Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution and Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and the war of position. This article explores how a (…)
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Algeria
“In Algeria, what is fundamental is the state”
1 May, by ,read article...In this previously unpublished interview conducted in June 2012, shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, historian and former FLN leader Mohammed Harbi traces Algeria’s political trajectory from colonial formation to post-independence bureaucratic rule.
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Internationalism
Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism
1 May, by ,read article...The world of yesterday at the abyss: How can a solidary vision be built that does not side with one imperialist camp or another, but rather relies on liberation from below? A conversation with British-Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov.
