Trump's August 25 late night internet post firing Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, the country's central bank, came as a surprise. Why her?
- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and IslamophobiaUnder the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Houses of prominent politicians were attacked, the parliament set on fire and the government is in shambles. But what is next?
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Nepal, Protest movementsThe Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he's been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country's capital.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Protest movementsThe exclusion of the main opposition candidates from the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire on 25 October 2025 casts a shadow over the vote and fuels the risk of political violence in a country marked by a long history of electoral crises.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Côte d'IvoirePresident Donald Trump last week renamed the U.S. Department of Defense, announcing that it is now the Department of War. The name change suggests that Trump wants a more warlike country, despite his claims that he is a peacemaker. In fact, the Trump administration already has a remarkable record of military action in various regions of the world.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA)Worst ever flood at River Ravi for 38 years, hundreds of villages affected across Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej belts. Kartarour complex (a place of worship for Sikh community, located inside Pakistan, where Indians can come without visa) submerged. Over 800 killed, thousands injured, eight districts of Punjab under water.
- News from around the world / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, Solidarity after disastersTwo million people have been impacted, 2200 villages and millions of acre of agri land are under water. Unprecedented Flood water now moving toward Sindh endangering lives of millions.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, Solidarity after disastersTwo years after the genocide in Gaza began, the population is suffering from relentless bombing, organized starvation and attacks on journalists and relief workers. Israeli propaganda, relayed by its allies, no longer masks the colonial and genocidal character of its policies, while Palestinian and international resistance continues.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / PalestineOn the occasion of the agreement on the dissolution of the PKK, Uraz Aydin presents the history of this movement and the evolution of the protest against the Erdoğan regime.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Turkey, KurdistanThe large mobilization for the Global Sumud Flotilla is a barometer of the social climate. And it tells us that there is still room for humanity.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Palestine, ItalyWhat does the crisis in the coffee industry tell us about global warming? The links between climate, economy and the precarity of workers.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, EconomyThe Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.
- Ernest Mandel Archive / Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Historical events and figuresThe Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on questions of popular defence and security in Europe. This reflection is nourished by its sustained and permanent commitment in favour of Ukraine. It actively supports Ukrainian trade unions and social movements as well as progressive anti-fascist fighters who combat Russian imperialism.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / Denmark, Ukraine
