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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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In the Debate section - Italian Left debate: Salvatorre Cannavo argues case for an anti-neoliberal, anti-war left in the light of the end of Rifondazione. |
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Current Issue: IV400 - May 2008 - Full contents here
Latest Articles...
| Myanmar (Burma)
Response to the tropical cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar on 3 May 2008
has been hijacked by vested interests on all sides, leaving millions of
Asia’s poorest people without any effective aid. - read article...
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| France
French youth continue to show their potential for mobilising against education reforms. This time it is the turn of high school students, who, during the last weeks, have been on the streets against the suppression of teachers’ jobs in high schools. - read article...
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| New Labour falling apart
The project of Britain’s governing New Labour is falling apart. Its local elections results were the worst in 40 years, with only 24% of the vote and coming third behind the Liberal Democrats. This is a disastrous result for British premier Gordon Brown. - read article...
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| Right victorious
This interview with Lidia Cirillo of Sinistra Critica was carried out in the immediate aftermath of the Italian elections, which saw a substantial victory of the Berlusconi-led right wing coalition and the defeat of ’centre-left’. - read article...
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| International Committee of the Fourth International
This is the written version of the report that he presented at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, as introduction to the debate on the international situation, on March 1, 2008. - read article...
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Recently posted Debate
In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica. - read
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Discussion in the International Socialist Group
When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today. - read
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Since the beginning of the decade important steps have been made in rebuilding the left internationally, following the working class defeats of the ‘80s and ‘90s and the negative impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. - read
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Recently posted Theory
How is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements? - read
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With the development of the revolutionary process in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the sharp left debates and divisions on overall strategy in countries like Brazil, France and Italy, the issue of revolutionary strategy is coming back on the agenda. - read
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Talk presented March 21 at an International Conference - organized under the name “Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought and Its Contemporary Value” - at Wuhan University by the School of Philosophy and The Institute of Marxist Philosophy in the People’s Republic of China March 20-22, 2006. - read
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Recently posted Documents
The International Committee passed a detailed resolution on climate change. - read
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The IC adopted a further resolution on the development of the Lula government and changes on the Left. - read
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The 15th World Congress of the Fourth International which met in early 2003 recorded a much-changed situation - in world politics and the International itself - compared with the previous Congress in 1995. - read
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News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements
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Britain
April 2008
It was with very great sadness that we heard of the death of our comrade Greg Tucker. We knew of course that he was ill and the outlook was not good but that does not attenuate the shock and sadness of the loss. - read
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 London’s mayoral election
Political Committee statement
April 2008
Ken Livingstone is unsupportable as a first preference vote. We do however call for a second preference vote for Livingstone against Tory bigot Boris Johnson. - read
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Pakistan
March 2008
Over 1600 workers from Alnoor Sugar Mill Moro, Sind took over the factory today on 12 March 2008. They occupied all the administration departments of the Mill and asked the General Manager (GM) of the Mill to sit on the floor. - read
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Venezuela
Marea Socialista is online
March 2008
A new political space, this website will be an instrument in favor of the development and deepening of the Bolivarian and Latin American revolution towards socialism. - read
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France
71 LCR candidates elected
March 2008
Of 200 lists presented or supported by the LCR, 109 of them got more than 5% of the vote and 29 more than 10%. - read
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