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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Tunisia
Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia
9 August, byTunisia has recently seen a wave of protests resulting from the difficult living conditions the country’s inhabitants have endured for several decades, which have gradually worsened. The situation became particularly unsustainable during the month of July, with residents regularly confronted with the policy of recurrent water cuts during the summer in the central regions (governorates of Kairouan, Sousse, Monastir and Mahdia). These four governorates have experienced 31 demonstrations and road blockades in 2024, then 15 demonstrations and blockades in 2025.
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Balkans
The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans
8 August, byIn Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.
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Argentina
How social media invented the ‘world’s most racist country’
7 August, byGabriel Vera Lopes spoke to Argentine socialist and Revista Jacobin editor-in-chief Martín Mosquera to analyse the emotional and political origins of the campaign, discuss the reality of racism in Argentina and question the role played by some of the global progressive intelligentsia.
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Spanish state
Reflexions on the Spanish Revolution of 1936
6 August, by“Ultimately, the great absence in the Spanish revolution was the existence of a revolutionary organisation with the necessary strength to lead the seizure of power.”
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5 August, byThe July 2026 issue spans 37 pieces across five continents, with US politics and a summer of climate breakdown dominating the main news section.
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Recently posted Features
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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.
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Economy
After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration
1 August, byread article...Crises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.
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Economic thought
An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism
1 August, by ,read article...We are reprinting an important text that Ernest Mandel wrote in late 1963 to contribute to the public debate that had begun in Cuba a few months earlier. The main participants in the debate were, on the one hand, Ernesto Che Guevara (Minister of Industry) and Luis Álvarez Rom (Minister of Finance) and, on the other, Alberto Mora (Minister of Foreign Trade) and Marcelo Fernández Font (President of the National Bank of Cuba).
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Campsim
Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique
1 August, by ,read article...Contemporary capitalism is shifting into a war conjuncture: as the world market fractures, rivalries among geo-economic powers intensify, often to the point of outright military confrontation, while militarization spills beyond the battlefield into political governance and everyday life. In this context, the historical necessity of renewing an internationalism becomes ever clearer, especially as local conditions are increasingly mediated by globalized processes and absorbed into the vortex of the global war regime.
