International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
3 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.
Environmental and climate debt: Who is responsible?
5 days ago · The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized. That recognition must take the form of cancellation of the debt of the countries of the Global South ...
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 ...
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.
Strength comes from within - International Viewpoint - online …
Oct 23, 2024 · “The root of our problems is that too often, the interest of those whose invisible work actually keeps the country running has been ignored. Hopefully, this time, we've learned the lesson. This is why “Sotsialnyi Rukh” publicly declares our readiness to cooperate with other forces to build a political movement that ensures the …
Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in …
Nov 20, 2024 · Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have ...
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.