Jan 27, 2025 · 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.

Dec 31, 2024 · It is that time of year when we reflect on the key events of 2024. Unlike the mainstream mass media we are interested in examining what happened from the point of view of the current and historic interests of the working class. Our task is to deconstruct the ideology that focuses on the visually dramatic, political or cultural personalities or the trivial.

Jan 1, 2025 · After over twenty years as a print magazine, International Viewpoint took the decision to become online only from January 2005. The costs and delay of serving our worldwide audience with a print magazine had become unsustainable, particularly as much of our readership is in countries where the costs of a subscription to an international magazine is prohibitive.

Jan 16, 2025 · The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and the appointment of a new prime minister on Monday 13, constitute a major upheaval in the country's political situation. The fact is that these events are themselves primarily the result of a major upheaval in the actual balance of power that determines Lebanon's political ...

Dec 31, 2024 · Catarina Martin’s of Portugal’s Left Bloc shares “A Short Diary of a Trip to Ukraine: Resistance and Social Movement in a Country at War ”, Mike Phipps analyses “Nicaragua’s blanket of repression”, a historical piece from Ernest Mandel explains “The strategy of transitional demands” and Dave Kellaway examines “ Why do socialists organise internationally?

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Dec 4, 2024 · In just a few days, after having remained relatively static for a few years, Syria has turned anew into a theatre of war of movement, in what looks like a resumption of the last major displacement of the battlefronts that took place in 2016, when the Assad regime regained control of Aleppo with Iranian and Russian support and Turkish complicity.

Nov 20, 2024 · Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have ...

Nov 16, 2024 · Since 7 October, Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to the worst military onslaught in the history of the enclave, with an unprecedented outpouring of force and violence. At the same time, Israel has been on the offensive in the other occupied territories: the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and now the whole region. The aim of this offensive, in all its configurations, is to increase ...

Dec 31, 2024 · The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized.