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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Kenya-France
Workers’ internationalism in action
15 October, byThe struggle for the rights of Kenyan workers at the French multinational digital services company is being organised from Nairobi to Paris.
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South Africa
“The reason you are poor is not another poor person”
14 October, by“We did not fight against apartheid because we were Zulus or Xhosas or Sothos. We fought because we were Blacks and we were being deprived of the right to be South African by a regime that did not recognise our existence as Black people in this country. ”
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Belgium
To defend our future, against austerity and repression: everyone in the streets alongside the youth!
13 October, byAfter a scorching and deadly summer for the working classes, the mobilizations for decent, free and democratic education that began in June are back in full force!
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Spanish state
Maricarmen, the general strike and the threat of an electoral victory for the reactionary bloc
12 October, by“Preparing for the General Strike on November 11 requires the greatest possible unity of action among the organising bodies to establish neighbourhood, workplace, and campus committees across the country—as has already been proposed by the Tenants’ Union and various other trade union, feminist, environmental, and social organisations.”
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USA
Mamdani Condemns ICE Shooting in NYC and Israel’s Genocide, but Faces Criticism from the Left
11 October, byLast week was the end of the New York City’s honeymoon with Mayor Zohran Mamdani as he confronted controversies over the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting of an immigrant.
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Recently posted Features
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Obituary
A Working-Class Marxist Who Faced the Apocalypse
11 October, byread article...“Alan Thornett, who has died aged 89, was the best-known militant in the British car industry during the decade when the industry settled the fate of British trade unionism.”
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Strategy
Workers will fight for their self-interest
7 October, byread article...“Socialism is the rule of the working class. Planning is an instrument of the democratic workers’ state for organizing production for human need under its collective political and social rule and the transition to a classless society.”
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Latin America
The governments of the new right and Trumpism in Latin America
7 October, byread article...Perhaps paraphrasing Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, when they described the revolutionary process that swept through Europe at the end of the 1940s as a spectre, we could describe the counter-revolutionary cycle that is sweeping through Our America in these 2020s as a phantom, albeit of the opposite kind .
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Strategy
The Left: a fundamental historical ambiguity
5 October, byread article...The notion of the Left contains a dual dimension. For more than a century, both its opponents and its supporters have agreed in describing the Left as the “party of movement,” the natural gathering place of “all progressive forces” and all advocates of “change.”
