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
The People Have Turned Against Trump
28 October, byFor the last two years, President Donald Trump’s Republican Party controlled not only the presidency, but also both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as many state governments. Trump appeared to be politically omnipotent. Now the American people have turned against Trump and it seems likely that the Republican Party will face defeat in the midterm elections on November 3, breaking Trump’s hold on Congress. It is a remarkable reversal of fortune brought about by Trump’s own hubris.
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France
As 2027 approaches, where does class struggle trades unionism stand?
27 October, byThe French trade union movement, and more particularly the trade unionism of social transformation, with which the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires explicitly identify, is today confronted with several important strategic questions.
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Brazil
Lula’s extraordinary victory overnight in Brazil
26 October, byThis is the most important defeat for the far right we have seen anywhere in the world in recent times, and its impact will be felt worldwide. Seeing those millions and millions of people pour onto the streets across this vast country to celebrate was enough to make you weep.
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Spanish state
When no one expected it.... the sun has come out
25 October, by“For eight years, Pedro Sánchez has survived practically everything: motions of no confidence, pandemics, wars, lawfare, media onslaughts, right-wing mobilisations, corruption scandals, electoral defeats, and an opposition that has spent years predicting the government’s imminent collapse on a daily basis. None of that managed to cut the legislative term short. Maricarmen did.”
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France
France, October 2026: reasons to believe
24 October, by ,On 17 October 2026, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France. Starting with young people and secondary school pupils, the mobilisation brought together other sections of society around the issue of the cost of living, outside the traditional trade union and political structures.
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The Macronist government responded with repression on an unprecedented scale: a number of people taken into police custody not seen since the start of the secondary school pupils’ movement, (…)
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Obituary
A life as a revolutionary Marxist - Farewell, Antonio
25 October, byread article...Antonio Moscato, a long-standing member and activist of our organisation since the 1950s, passed away on the night of 24 October. He was 88 years old. A lifelong commitment, from agitation at the factory gates to the university, within our organisation and in the battle of ideas
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Climate
El Niño, La Niña, and a collapse that is not natural
23 October, byread article...A critical reading of climate and its social impacts.
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Niclear weapons
The Growing Risk of Nuclear War
20 October, byread article...“That potential for instant destruction has become more imminent, with the most militarily powerful countries adding fuel to an already overheated arms race and engaging in wars with each other, indirectly if not directly. Making the situation more perilous is the introduction of Artificial Intelligence-powered tools into warfare.”
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Climate
Sitting on a time bomb
20 October, byread article...“In his infamous United Nations speech a year ago, Trump denounced global heating as the “biggest scam in world history.” Since his re-election, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Accords, closed offices and programs dealing with climate change, terminated dozens of experts working on global heating and, crucially, withdrawn billions of dollars aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.”
