International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
4 days ago · 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.
Political Review of 2024 - a view from Britain - International ...
Dec 31, 2024 · It is that time of year when we reflect on the key events of 2024. Unlike the mainstream mass media we are interested in examining what happened from the point of view of the current and historic interests of the working class. Our task is to deconstruct the ideology that focuses on the visually dramatic, political or cultural personalities or the trivial.
2025 - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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 …
After five days that changed its face, where is Lebanon headed?
Jan 16, 2025 · The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and the appointment of a new prime minister on Monday 13, constitute a major upheaval in the country's political situation. The fact is that these events are themselves primarily the result of a major upheaval in the actual balance of power that determines Lebanon's political ...
Reading for the New Year - International Viewpoint - online …
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The Threats ahead of a Democratic and Progressive Syria
Jan 9, 2025 · Is the Egyptian coup model possible in Syria? Are the old regime and its remnants the main threat to Syria? Or is the main threat today that HTS and the regional and international forces supporting it are seeking to impose a new authoritarianism? In this extensive article, Joseph Daher answers these questions by first analysing the threat posed by the remnants of the old regime and then ...
GE24: Changing of the Mudguard - International Viewpoint
Dec 12, 2024 · After the last election in 2020, escape from a century of FF-FG rule seemed not just possible but probable. The cycle of alternation between the two frenemies had finally been broken with the identical twins of Irish capitalism forced into a grand coalition, propped up by the Green Party with external support from right-wing Independent TDs.
What is happening in Syria? - International Viewpoint - online ...
Dec 4, 2024 · In just a few days, after having remained relatively static for a few years, Syria has turned anew into a theatre of war of movement, in what looks like a resumption of the last major displacement of the battlefronts that took place in 2016, when the Assad regime regained control of Aleppo with Iranian and Russian support and Turkish complicity.
One year after 7 October, Gilbert Achcar discusses the future of …
Oct 10, 2024 · On 7 October this year, the Palestinians in Gaza marked one year of the devastating war that Israel inflicted on them hours after the Hamas Al-Aqsa Flood Operation struck the south of Israel in the early hours of 7 October 2023.
Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From ...