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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Morocco
World Bank/IMF meetings: Counter-summit of social movements Marrakech, 12-15 October 2023
6 October, by Attac-CADTM Morocco“We are saying: 79 years of neo-colonial exploitation is enough! This call to action is available on the counter-summit website, here.”
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Britain
Suella Braverman’s speech shows Tory culture wars’ election strategy
5 October, by Phil Hearse“Anti-racism grew up in the 1970s in opposition to Powell and the fascist National Front and gave a voice to the lived experiences of many millions of people from multicultural communities and multicultural classrooms too.”
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USA
Class Struggle Returns to U.S. as Strikes Spread from Actors to Auto Workers
4 October, by Dan La BotzThe last year has seen a remarkable number of strike threats, strikes, and strike settlements in diverse industries from coffee shops to railroads, from writers and actors to truck drivers and auto workers. At the moment, 25,000 auto workers and 150,000 actors are on strike
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French Guiana
More than 1,000 people attend MPs’ call for action
3 October, by Adrien Guilleau“It’s hard to say at this stage how events will turn out, but the initiative of the Guianan MPs is as original as it is interesting! ”
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USA
Week Three—The UAW Strike Expands Again
2 October, by Dianne Feeley“A union that’s not prepared to strike to win is like a fighter with one hand tied behind his back. Without the strike weapon, the war on workers is a rigged fight.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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France-Britain
Macron, Charles III: from one monarch to another, under the BP sun
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Sudan
Sudan’s huge tragedy and the way out
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Syria
A breath of the 2011 resistance in Syrian protest movement,
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Argentina
After the primaries, the elections
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Nicaragua
“The world needs to be aware that human rights are being trampled on in Nicaragua”
Recently posted Debate
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War in Ukraine
Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception
16 July, by Fred Leplatread article...“Anti-capitalists and internationalists support unconditionally the people of Ukraine in their armed resistance to liberate their country from the Russian genocidal invasion. But the support for Ukraine is not necessarily uncritical.”
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Ukraine and Europe
Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left
22 December 2022, by Catherine Samaryread article...This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.
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War in Ukraine
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcarread article...“The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”
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War in Ukraine
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital
16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewskiread article...“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”
Brazil
Solidarity faced with the murder of three doctors close to the PSOL in Brazil
Statement by the NPA
October 2023
“We offer our full solidarity to the comrades of the PSOL, of the MES in particular, and to Sâmia Bomfim.”
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Solidarity call for Can Atalay!
September 2023
“Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged ‘Gezi Park Trials’ after being unjustly convicted of ‘attempting to overthrow the government’.”
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Protest rally of Huqooq e Khalq Party breached police barriers to reach Governor House
Huge Protest outside Governor House against rising electricity price and inflation
August 2023
“Protesters of Haqooq e Khalq party were chanting slogans against IMF and the ruling coalition.”
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“Organize a broad solidarity campaign and demand the immediate release of Boris Kagarlitsky and all political prisoners”
July 2023
“The criminal case against Boris Kagarlitsky is an attack on the entire left movement.”
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Stop the growing repression in Hong Kong!
July 2023
For more than two years, many people who took part in the 2019-2020 uprising have been imprisoned in Hong Kong, including trade unionists Lee Cheuk-yan, Carol Ng and Winnie Yu.
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