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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USA
The attacks on us all
5 April, by Solidarity Steering CommitteeA multi-front attack is in full swing — not only on supporters of Palestinian freedom, but on everyone’s First Amendment and civil rights. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the peremptory deportation of Brown Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh, the attempt to detain and deport Columbia University Ph.D student Ranjani Srinivasan who’s fled to seek asylum in Canada, and the seizure of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri — none of these, and many more cases that haven’t attracted public attention, are happening in isolation.
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Philippines
Duterte in The Hague
4 April, by Alex de JongPhilippine president Rodrigo Duterte gained international notoriety with his violent ‘war on drugs’ – a campaign of violence targeting the country’s poor that claimed thousands of lives. He is now in a cell in The Hague, awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court, but it remains to be seen what will happen in the Philippines.
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Economics
Liberation day
3 April, by Michael RobertsIt’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.”
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Ukraine:
Feminist group Bilkis addresses Brussels Conference
2 April, by Ivanna VynnaIvanna Vynna, a member of the Ukrainian feminist group Bilkis, took part on 27 March 2025 in the workshop on feminist struggles in Ukraine at the Brussels conference organised by the European Solidarity Network with Ukraine. The text of her speech is published below.
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Philippines
Former President Duterte arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
1 April, by Pierre RoussetAccused of crimes against humanity, Rodrigo Duterte was taken to The Hague (Netherlands) on March 11, where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is located. The charges are the tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings committed under his rule in the name of his "war on drugs."
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Bernie Sanders’ rallies tens of thousands as unions prepare national protest
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Militarism
For an intransigent opposition to the rearmament of capitalist Europe
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India
Thousands protest canalisation of the Indus and coporate farming
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Belgium
Between an upsurge in mobilisation and a retreat in feminist strikes, how can we organise to win?
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Turkey
Turkey and the Neofascist Contagion
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Middle East
The imperialist strategy of the US in the Middle East
30 January 2010, by Salah Jaberread article...Since the objective of this seminar is to focus on the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian questions, it is best to approach the theme of United States strategy from this angle in particular. Because on the one hand we do not have enough time for a general exposé on everything the US is doing in the region, and on the other, because to a significant degree that would only have an indirect relationship with the central theme of this meeting. But these questions intersect, as you will see.
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Palestine solidarity
Report on new unions in Palestine
30 January 2010, by Tony Richardsonread article...This is a personal report on my relations with new Independent Democratic trade union movement in Palestine.
I first went to Palestine, in solidarity, in August 2002, just after the Israeli re-invasion of the West Bank.
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Palestine solidarity
Perspectives for Palestine
30 January 2010, by Salah Jaberread article...I will start out with a historical account on how positions on the question have evolved, and then go on to a discussion of the problem as it is posed nowadays. (Report to the Palestine Seminar February 2009)
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Palestine Solidarity
Current challenges for the solidarity movement
30 January 2010, by Cinzia Nachiraread article...The reaction in Europe to the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip has revealed many steps forward in Europe, but also many problems and difficult tasks either for the “specific” solidarity movement with Palestine, or for the social movement more generally.
France
Le Pen convicted, the fight against the far right continues!
statement by NPA-l’Anticapitaliste
April 2025
In the so-called case of “the parliamentary assistants to the European Parliament”, Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday 31 March to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, a fine of €200,000 and was banned from running for office for five years. Thus, taking into account the usual judicial delays before the holding of an appeal and the effect of political destabilization, her candidacy for the presidential election in 2027 is very much in doubt, especially if the election is called early.
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Turkish people will not accept the death sentence for their democracy
March 2025
Dear friends and allies, stand with us! Share this call with your local MPs, mayors, unions, parties, and friends.
Raise your voices for Turkey
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Support imprisoned comrade in Spanish state
February 2025
In Spain, a comrade of Anticapitalistas is in prison for participating in a demonstration against the negationist extreme right. He is 27 years old, has been in prison for one year and still has four more years to go.
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Holcim Philippines against cement workers (Mindanao): End the lockout! Support the workers just demands!
February 2025
We, the different human rights and organizations of agricultural workers and sectors in Mindanao firmly stand in solidarity with the deprived and exploited workers of the Holcim Philippines Incorporated Lugait, Misamis Oriental Mindanao Plant. We call on Holcim Philippines Incorporated to listen to the just demands of the workers and their families.
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Put an end to Macron and the Fifth Republic!
Statement by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA-l’Anticapitaliste)
December 2024
After the vote of no confidence, let’s finish with Macron and the 5th Republic!
The result was clear: 331 votes in favour of the no confidence motion. The Barnier government resigned and the austerity budget law fell. This illegitimate government, a symbol of Macron’s decomposition of the Macron presidency, had no future. The promise of ever more austerity and authoritarianism has been rejected by the vast majority of the population.
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