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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Comoros
Comorian healthworkers strike against wage inequality
30 April, byA strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.
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USA
Another Attempt to Assassinate Trump Could Put the Left in Danger
29 April, by“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”
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Algeria
On the Pope’s Visit to Algeria - Old and New Myths
28 April, byThere are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.
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USA
Trump vs. Anthropic: Does the U.S. Want Killer Robots?
27 April, by“I fired them like dogs.” This is the formula that US president Donald Trump, with the elegance we know him for, used to sum up his battle with the American company Anthropic. He will have to wait a little longer before bragging: in a first order issued on 27 March 2026, the court suspended the blacklisting of the artificial intelligence (AI) giant, whose tools can therefore still be used by administrations, contrary to the president’s wishes. But the tug-of-war is not over, and we must take the measure of what is at stake: the United States’ use of AI in the service of a regime of terror.
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South Africa
17,000 households deliberately deprived of water
26 April, byAmandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.
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Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions
24 April, byread article...Expanded and revised version of the contribution presented at the Bensaïd Seminar organised in Amsterdam by the Fourth International on 3, 14 and 15 January 2012, at the premises of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)
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Ecosocialism
The contribution of the Fourth International to ecosocialism
21 April, by ,read article...This document traces the path taken by the International, from Trotsky’s modernist concerns to the adoption of the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution and the campaign waged around it by the sections.
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Ecosocialist Manifesto
Ecosocialism or barbarism
21 April, byread article...“The danger of a great catastrophe … is imminent. All the newspapers have written about this time and again. Everybody says this. Everybody admits it. Everybody has decided it is so. Yet nothing is being done.”
This isn’t Greta Thunberg speaking truth to power. This was Lenin.
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Ecology in Palestine
War Ecology
21 April, byread article...The Palestinian Olive Council estimates that approximately one million olive trees have been destroyed in Gaza.The World Bank estimates that the war on Lebanon generated approximately 22 million tonnes of waste.
