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The Reasons for the US-Israeli Aggression against Iran

4 hours 32 minutes ago

“It is important to remember that the Islamic Republic of Iran — and more broadly the Iranian capitalism it administers — is not a simple passive victim of this warlike configuration. It is a fully-fledged player, committed to its own logic of power, internal consolidation and regional influence.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Israel, Iran
Sarah Selami

Power and urgency in the ecological crisis

6 hours 51 minutes ago

The urgency of the global crisis of capitalism, particularly because of the ecological crisis, is undeniable. Answering this question requires a clear vision of the question of power and the transition to another society.

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Strategy
Júlia Martí, Martín Lallana

The Self-Emancipation of Workers and the Oppressed: Lessons from the German and Spanish Revolutions

11 hours 21 minutes ago

“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves'. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”

- Features / Marxism, Turkey, Kurdistan
Uraz Aydin

Relaunching the Battle of Ideas on the Italian Left

11 hours 22 minutes ago

Italy's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)

- Features / Italy, Marxism
Salvatore Cannavò, Stéfanie Prezioso

Trump, the Supreme Court, and State Legislatures Rig Future Elections

1 day 6 hours ago

“Historically redistricting has been carried out in all states at the time of the decennial census to reflect changes in population, but now it is being done between censuses in a partisan manner to benefit one party.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia
Dan La Botz

BRICS media are not an alternative for anti-imperial resistance

3 days 5 hours ago

Farooq Sulehria is a member of CADTM-Pakistan. He was in Brazil to attend the First Anti-Fascist Conference in Porto Alegre (March 26-29, 2026). He is the author of the recently published Media Subimperialisms and the Rise of the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan).

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Brazil, South Korea, China, India
Farooq Sulehria

Appeal: No to NATO!

4 days 22 hours ago

On 4 April 2026, on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of NATO, the Global Anti-Militarist Webinar was held, organised by the “No to NATO” initiative, created following the appeal of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TIP), in which members of the Fourth International are active. Bringing together speakers from several dozen countries and nearly 200 participants, this webinar called for the organization of an International Anti-Imperialist Peace Summit in June 2026, in response to the summit of this criminal organization planned in Turkey. We are releasing the final statement of the webinar.

- News from around the world / Turkey, NATO
Collective

Labour collapses, the far right grows

5 days 6 hours ago

The elections across much of Britain on 7 May were a devastating blow to the ruling Labour Party who lost 1,229 councillors in England and also came third in the election for the Welsh Sennedd and lost support in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales
Simon Hannah

“A Defeat Manufactured in Downing Street”

5 days 6 hours ago

Those were the words used by Mick Antoniw, former MS (Member of the Senedd), Counsel General in the Welsh Labour government and a senior member of the Labour Party in Cymru/Wales. He was describing the election on May 7 when Cymru underwent a change of historic proportions.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales
Geoff Ryan

The Swedish Left Party Congress in Review

6 days 10 hours ago

The Left Party's 46th Congress displayed an almost deafening sense of self-confidence and fighting spirit ahead of the upcoming election.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Sweden
Håkan Blomqvist

A commitment to left-wing Andalusian nationalism

1 week ago

Regional elections will take place in Andalusia on 17 May in a context marked by the consolidation of the PP, which in 2018 broke decades of Socialist dominance, and the rise of an increasingly aggressive right wing. Against this backdrop, the most striking development of the campaign is the growth of Adelante Andalucía: according to the latest CIS poll, the party is on course to secure 8.5% of the vote and win six seats, overtaking the coalition led by the Communist Party, which has (…)

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Spanish state, New parties of the left
Brais Fernández, José Ignacio García, Martí­n Mosquera

Against the G7, let's build an internationalist resistance in Geneva

1 week 1 day ago

Faced with the G7, which is meeting in Evian to organize the destruction of peoples, the exploitation of living things and the domination of bodies, let us organize our resistance against fascism and imperialism! Let's meet from June 13 to 17, 2026 in Geneva to build the internationalist response!

- News from around the world / France, Switzerland
Juan Tortosa

Trump's Murderous Regime, at Home and Abroad

1 week 1 day ago

During his second term as president, full of confidence and bluster, Donald Trump has turned to rule by killing, by murder, both abroad and at home. Trump's brutality and callousness, the way he talks about the violence against immigrants and Iranians with such lack of empathy and humanity has become the defining characteristic of the regime.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
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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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