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International Viewpoint International Viewpoint, the English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide.
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With correspondents in over 50 countries, we carry reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe.

31/08/2024

Belgian ecosocialist activist Daniel Tanuro's book-length deep dive into the Trump phenomenon is now here in a new English translation.

30/08/2024

Anticolonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century.

29/08/2024

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, er­ratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for suste...

28/08/2024

Dave Kellaway reports from Italy, and reflects on the media coverage of the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily compared to the way the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean are usually reported

27/08/2024

Liz Lawrence looks at the importance of birth control for women's liberation, the history of the global gag rule on healthcare funding for NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which provide abortion services, and the health impact of the global gag rule.

26/08/2024

The French historian François Furet, a communist in his youth turned anti-communist, is the author of a famous explanation for the popularity of communism after World War II, especially among intellectuals, attributing it to anti-fascism as highlighted by the major role played by the Soviet Union i...

25/08/2024

The Modi government must reckon with Bangladeshi anger over its support for Hasina even as the United States, China and Russia all reassess their approaches to Dhaka

24/08/2024

Since 1 August, tens of thousands of people have trooped out onto the streets across Nigeria in nationwide protests against hardship and hunger. This phase of the protest movement is expected to last until 10 August. Demonstrations have been held in the Federal Capital Territory, A...

24/08/2024

“Under the shell of suppression, there exists a flow of resistance. Continuous executions are actually a state-tool of intimidation to curb these resistances. ”

23/08/2024

In this month of August, we are celebrating exactly two and a half years since our Feminist Workshop opened its first shelter for internally displaced women. At the start of the invasion, we opened three shelters. Two of them stayed open for six months. Today, we would like to announce some importan...

21/08/2024

Five years have passed since Hong Kong's mass movement of 2019. Despite the regime's repression and white terror, the embers of resistance still smoulder in the hearts of every Hongkonger, unquenchable. The regime's censorship, repression, and rewriting of history will not succeed in erasing the mem...

20/08/2024

Unlike what had happened for the last 25 years in Venezuelan elections – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez's victory in 1998 – this (...)

19/08/2024

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women's rights to abortion and, more broadly, to safe reproductive health care have been under attack. In response, women have organized at the grassroots to build local and state-wide coalitions to resist and defend their reproductive rights. Women's resistance has...

18/08/2024

In the context of the capitalist polycrisis that is deepening year by year throughout the world, the political, ecological and social crises in Latin America are taking a particularly acute and chaotic turn.

17/08/2024

By a more than two-to-one margin, on June 2, 2024, voters in Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégé of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to the nation's highest office, the first woman and the first Jew to hold the post. She ran as the candidate of AMLO's Morena party. ...

16/08/2024

By relying on armed militias against the M23 rebellion, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is worsening the already dramatic human rights situation in the eastern part of the country. South and North Kivu are facing an offensive from the March 23 Movement (M23). This rebellion....

15/08/2024

After a series of twists and turns, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has ruled that a number of opposition candidates are illegal. Our comrades analyse the contradictions of this anti-democratic decision and how to build a democratic and anti-capitalist project in this context.

14/08/2024

Once again, the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality is being discussed in Cameroon with a position that is unexpected to say the least. On June 30, the young 26-year-old rapper King Nasty declared his love for Brazilian model Layyons Valença on the social network X (formerly Twitter) with a phot...

13/08/2024

Dave Kellaway reports from the anti-fascist demonstration in Walthamstow East London and reflects on the lessons.

12/08/2024

The People's Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people's uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle') in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘syst...

12/08/2024

In these challenging times, Loong-yu Au, a labour researcher, thinks that frank conversations and the search for consensus are crucial for rebuilding Hong Kong's future democratic movement.

12/08/2024

In early November 2023, shortly before the COP28 summit opened in Dubai, a hitherto obscure UAE firm attracted significant media attention around news of their prospective land deals in Africa

11/08/2024

Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace (the Palacio Quemado) have been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis Arce's adm...

10/08/2024

On August 5, at 2:30 pm, Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post as prime minister and fled with some of her Special Security Forces by helicopter to India. She is now in Delhi, and some reports indicate that she wants to go to London for political asylum, but Britain is refusing her entry because of h...

09/08/2024

On the evening of November 19, 2023, when official data from the presidential runoff in Argentina confirmed the victory of Javier Milei, the candidate of “La libertad adelantado” (Liberty Advances or LLA), many activists and intellectuals of the left and progressivism woke up to a reality that w...

09/08/2024

As socialists how should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.

09/08/2024

In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto. This law requires NGOs that receive more than 20% of their funding f...

09/08/2024

Bernard Rioux reflects on his five decades on Quebec's radical left

09/08/2024

Yoletty Bracho, a Venezuelan activist and researcher living in France, has devoted her research to the relationship between popular neighbourhood organisations and the state born from the Bolivarian revolution. Present in Venezuela in the weeks leading up to the elections, she was able to meet with....

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