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International Viewpoint
News and analysis from the Fourth International 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. Founded by Ernest Mandel, International Viewpoint is the world’s largest international Marxist news and analysis magazine. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. Direct from the front line in the fight against neo-liberalism.
The latest 10 articles from the site: Spanish state: victory for the right, major crisis loomsThe expected defeat of the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Spain's elections on November 20, 2011 was not as heavy as had been predicted. The Spanish electoral system is far from proportional and projects deformed images which strongly distort reality. In terms of number of seats the elections can be (...)
Daniel Noverraz, known as Léonce Aguirre (1949-2011)Daniel Noverraz, known as Léonce Aguirre, died suddenly on September 29, 2011. Initially close to the Communist Party, he joined the Fourth International in 1968 in Lausanne, after May 1968 in France and the impact of the role played then by the French section and the Jeunesse communiste (...)
Occupy Movement Goals: Socialist Revolution or Capitalist Reforms?At last count 900 U.S. cities have joined the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Five hundred other cities and towns on every continent have joined the mushrooming mobilizations in solidarity. With each repressive blow, the movement comes back stronger—more inclusive, more confident, and more (...)
Labour Party Pakistan under attack; Help us to fight back!Several supporters and members of Labour Party Pakistan are locked up in different jails of Pakistan. 9 textile workers including Fazal Ilahi a leading member of LPP are in Faisalabad jail. 15 activists are in Gilgit jail including Baba Jan, en elected member of LPP Federal Committee. They are (...)
Greece: New government and the accelerated march to capitalist barbarismThe farce, and the arguments of the "political elite" of Greece along with the "power play" — mainly of the two large system-supporting parties PASOK ("Socialist Movement") and the right-wing "New Democracy" (ND) — to support a government coalition with the participation of the far-right LAOS, (...)
Independent Union Federation joins Tahrir sit-inThe Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions announces its participation in the sit-in today (19 November 2011), under the slogan “Achieve the goals of the revolution which have been manipulated for the last ten months”. - News from around the (...)
Remberto Arias Bernal, Bolivian TrotskyistA leader of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR-Combate), Bolivian section of the Fourth International, Remberto Arias Bernal, known as “Toto” and “Andrès”, joined the Fourth International in 1972, while he was in exile in the Chilean port of Arica. After General Pinochet's coup, he fought in the (...)
The G20, the symptom of impotenceThe leaders of the G20, the twenty largest economies in the world, met on November 3 and 4 for the sixth time in three years. Their meeting, supposedly prepared meticulously for months, has painfully produced a final communiqué that is virtually empty. The insignificant results are not only (...)
Militarization, military intervention and the absence of strategyI was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC - who had come from Syria (...)
China cannot save the world from crisisWhile North America and Europe were hard hit, China has resisted the international crisis of 2008 thanks to a rescue plan which combined huge public spending, a low interest rate and consumption subsidies. - IV442 - November (...)
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