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.

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 …

1. The crisis now. The international situation remains marked by a comprehensive, multidimensional crisis -economic, social, food-related, and ecological - that is shaking the capitalist world.

For several weeks now, the media - and important currents on the global left - have been relaying statements by the authorities of major powers, first and foremost China, but also Brazil and others, concerning the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine and a rapid relaunch of negotiations.

This is the written version of the report that he presented at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, as introduction to the debate on the international situation, on March 1, 2008.

Before approaching the new developments in the world situation since the 15th World Congress, let’s recall the reference points that mark the general framework of our analysis of the period, noted at the last Congress of the International:

“It is time to debate in Die Linke and in the left in general how, in the medium term, we can build a stronger political left, more rooted in the workplaces, in the neighbourhoods, in schools, active and inspiring in the social movements, the bearer of concrete mobilization and action projects that fit into a perspective of radical social change.”

–The collapse of the 1990s ’dot.com’ economic bubble in the US and other advanced countries, and the slide of the world economy towards the worst recession since 1974-5.

China's rapid rise as a new center of capital accumulation has increasingly brought it into conflict with the United States. The ISR's Ashley Smith interviewed activist and scholar Au Loong Yu about the nature of China's emergence as a new imperial …

In A left ‘exit strategy’ from fossil fuel capitalism? [], Norwegian socialist Anders Ekeland urges ecosocialists to support the climate change program proposed by one of the world’s most-respected climate scientists, James Hansen, in many essays and speeches and in his book, Storms of my GrandchildrenIn support of his argument, Ekeland particularly cites …