INTERNATIONAL Viewpoint, the monthly review of the Fourth International, has resumed publication after a one-month break to set up new printing and distribution facilities for the magazine here in Prague.
The magazine will continue its much-deserved reputation as a forum for those in struggle around the world, deepening its coverage of the work of revolutionary organisations around the world.
The February issue of IV focuses on the Zapatista revolt in Mexico. As well as an interview on the strategy of the EZLN subcommander Marcos provides an article "Basement Mexico" outlining the special features of the social crisis facing Mexico. Maxime Durand explores the economic crisis of the country and how it ties in with the NAFTA trading bloc and relations with the USA and and Canada. Olga Odgers traces the cultural roots of the Zapata myth among the maya Indians. There is a reprint of a joint declaration of Mexico's Indian organisations.
IV also takes a hard look at market reforms in China and Vietnam and examines the response of the Russian left to the Chechen crisis.
In March /Vasks "what's left?" in a survey of western Europe's Communist parties. We analyse the potential of the PDS in Germany, Refounders of Italy, Portugal's traditionalists and the Realists of Spain.
To mark International Women's Day we have a dossier on women and fundamentalism. Activists around the world have prepared reports on the Christian right in north America, Catholic fundamentalism in France and the fight against Islamic fundamentalism within Europe's immigrant communities.
We also interview the leader of one of Africa's largest and most dynamic far-left coalitions, the PADS of Senegal. Poul Larsen explains the roots of the Chechen crisis and we detail the increasingly tense situation in Sri Lanka. International Viewpoint costs $22 a year from International, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. Single issues cost the same address.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 78. 25 February 1995, Page 12.