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.
“The repositioning of Lula also has an impact on the left as a whole, including those who, like the PSOL, were in opposition to his government.”
read article...“After all, there is only one sure path for the radical left: to prepare for a new protest mobilization and to fight to preserve its parties, trade unions and the self-organizing bodies of popular power.”
read article...The Central African Republic is still not emerging from the most serious crisis it has known since it became independent. France’s policy, from the colonial period until now, partly explains the endemic violence that reigns in the Central African Republic.
read article...March 8, 2021, in front of the National Press Club, 12 organizations celebrated jointly International Women’s Day. After the human chain ceremony with the slogan “Women Leadership in Corona, Build a New World of Equality”, a procession marched around various streets of the city.
Today, Monday, March 8, 2021, at 11 am in front of the National Press Club, Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, Readymade Garments Workers Federation, Bangladesh Floating Women Workers Union, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, (...)
“Myanmar, with its diverse populations, has become one of the new “warm fronts” in a universal struggle.”
read article...“Our next problem will be Biden and the Democrats’ neoliberalism, but Trump is still the issue for the moment.”
“Our response must be different. It must emerge from our understanding of how this racist, anti-worker, anti-poor capitalist death machine can actually be overcome. That will require organizing, not lobbying. ”
Decaying Institutions, Rightwing Insurrection, and the Need for a Mass Movement
“Humanity’s future also rests on the emergence and consolidation of a new and independent Black, Latinx and Native American leadership to champion the struggles of the most oppressed and exploited and establish democratic control of their communities while opening the way to the formation of independent Black and Brown parties in the political arena.”
We call on the international left to take an active stand against political repression in Russia and to protest the persecution of Anastasia Ponkina.
- read article...Urgent update
“Dimitris Koufodinas life in danger, after 50 days of hunger strike in Greek jail”, The Press Project, 26 February 2021.
“We support the call of many organizations to maintain a permanent mobilization to ensure that the popular vote is respected.”
- read article...Just two days before Brazil’s National Day of Trans Visibility (29 January) an attack on a Black transvestite, intersex elected representative in São Paulo.
- read article...We stand in solidarity with the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger-strike since January 8, 2021, and whose health is now in critical condition.
We demand:
that he be transferred to Korydallos prison
a stop to all arbitrary legal and factual interventions against him
a stop to all discriminatory treatment against him