6 days ago · 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.

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 ...

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.

5 days ago · The ‘Women, Life, Freedom' uprising has profoundly shaken the foundations of the Islamic Republic. Regional defeats, including the weakening of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the fall of the dictator Assad, have further weakened the regime in Tehran. With the social and economic crisis into which the country is sinking, the very survival of the Islamic Republic is at stake.

Feb 1, 2025 · The Chinese regime has never been as opaque as it is today. We are living in a time of uncertainty, not yet knowing how Donald Trump will play his cards in relation to China. Between the climate crisis and chaotic de-globalisation, these are unprecedented times. Let's try to decipher the situation, without trying to remove the question marks.

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.

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 ...

Jan 7, 2025 · That is why Israel refrained from annexing the territories it occupied in 1967, except for East Jerusalem. Successive Zionist governments discussed various plans to dislodge the population from Gaza and the West Bank in an endeavour to complete the seizure of all of Palestine from the River to the Sea, by annexing the 1967 territories without having to face the dilemma of the fate of their ...

Oct 27, 2024 · Lebanon: after 7 October 2023. Following the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip after 7 October 2023, Hezbollah announced its ‘unity of fronts’ strategy, the aim of which was to link the Lebanese front with that of Gaza.

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 ...