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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Britain
What Jason Arday’s death says about our society
26 August, byJason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.
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USA
The Looming Election
25 August, byMIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.
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South Africa
How the 1976 uprisings led to the people’s education movement of the mid-1980s in Soweto
24 August, byFifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.
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Albania
Three months of mass protests in Albania
23 August, bySince the end of May, day after day, Albanians have been protesting in Tirana against a luxury tourist complex that US president Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plan to build with an Albanian investor. At first, there were only a few hundred demonstrators, but it has now become a mass movement.
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Venezuela
Washington’s Seizure of Venezuelan Oil: Where Have the Oil Revenues Gone Since 3 January 2026?
22 August, byOn 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military operation against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and detention of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their transfer to the United States. During this attack, carried out using 150 aircraft, around a hundred people lost their lives, including 32 Cubans who had attempted to protect the country’s presidential palace; the remaining victims were Venezuelans. A few hours after this intervention, Donald Trump announced that Washington now claimed to be temporarily in control of Venezuela and would exploit its oil resources.
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Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Marxist strategy in Western Europe
17 August, by ,read article...Gramsci is often considered as the main Marxist thinker to have paid particular attention to the specificities of the revolution in the West. His thinking on this question is indeed indispensable to any consideration of strategy, but it cannot be separated from the discussions initiated by Lenin and Trotsky in the Communist International (Comintern) of the 1920s.
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Class
Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
17 August, byread article...It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past — dissolved by deindustrialisation, scattered by fragmented labour markets, eclipsed by identity-based movements, and exhausted along with the institutions that once gave it political form. From this vantage point, class appears to have lost its centrality, surviving at best as a residual category of analysis.
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Fascism
Modern counter-revolution and fascism
17 August, byread article...We know the first words of the Communist Manifesto: “A spectre is haunting Europe”. Today, two “spectres” with a material reality seem to haunt the capitalist world and weigh on the destinies of humanity: Donald Trump and artificial intelligence (AI). How do they fit together? What world are they likely to lead us to?
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Anti-fascism and Anti-Imperialism
For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front
4 August, byread article...Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.
