Artikelen van International Viewpoint

Beyond the Headlines: Why Iran's Protest Wave Can't Be Reduced to One Name

3 months 2 weeks ago

“the street is the product of a decade of accumulated pressure, repression, and scattered bottom-up organizing. Famous figures arrive late. The real danger is that, instead of strengthening the movement's diversity and real field experience, projects emerge whose goal is not to open a road to freedom—but to manage and control a movement that has already broken out of control.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Iran, Protest movements
Siyavash Shahabi

Epitaph for a Revolution?

3 months 2 weeks ago

“The central task is to defend the homeland's sovereignty with anti-imperialism from those who live by their labour—that is, every step in defence of the Republic must be accompanied by the demand for redemocratisation of Venezuelan society and wage justice. There is no territorial sovereignty without political sovereignty.“

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Venezuela
Luís Bonilla-Molina

The Political Landscape Surrounding the Snap General Election

3 months 3 weeks ago

Prime Minister Takaichi announced the dissolution of The House of Representatives and the general election at a press conference on January 19th. The general election is to be held on Sunday, February 8th. This brief essay will examine the current political situation, focusing on what the snap election means and why a new party, the Centrist Reform Coalition, was formed by the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and the Komeito Party (Komeito).

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Japan
Toshizo Omori

Ruptures: The New Manifesto of the Fourth International

3 months 3 weeks ago

The new Manifesto of the Fourth International is available in English from Resistance Books London or the IIRE, Amsterdam. This “Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth”, is a document that marks a new stage in the history of the movement founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.
Since Babeuf's Manifesto of the Equals (1796) and the Communist Manifesto (1848), many documents of this kind have emerged throughout the history of the workers' movement. (…)

- Features / Fourth International, Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy
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