International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Venezuela after the coup

Ashley Smith, Federico Fuentes — 2026-02-12T11:03:04Z

“Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.”

- Venezuela 2026 / Venezuela

‘Brazil must set the example': Unions, MPs urge Lula to cut ties with Israel over Gaza genocide

Federico Fuentes — 2025-06-18T09:30:42Z

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva needs to shift from words to action and break ties with Israel over its ongoing war on Gaza — that is the message coming from a growing number of trade unions, left parliamentarians, intellectuals and artists.

- Features / Palestine, Brazil

‘Russia's war no excuse for attacks on trade unions'

Federico Fuentes — 2025-05-14T14:00:19Z

Ukrainian workers make up the bulk of frontline soldiers defending the country against Russia's war of aggression, but that hasn't stopped Volodymyr Zelensky's government from attacking trade union rights.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Marx's anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world

Federico Fuentes, Kevin B Anderson — 2024-09-11T10:04:42Z

Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin's writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.

- Features / Marxism, Imperialism

Russian leftists are planning to disrupt Putin's fake presidential election this weekend

Federico Fuentes, Mikhail Lobanov — 2024-03-15T15:26:00Z

“That is why I call on left groups, parties and trade unions in different countries to realise this and lend a helping hand to Russian socialists who are now regrouping and preparing for the future struggle.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / Russia

Ukrainian socialist: ‘The future of demilitarisation lies in stopping Russia's war machine now'

Federico Fuentes, Vitaliy Dudin — 2022-04-08T09:31:16Z

“But the most specific thing leftists can do is to fundamentally shift their organisation's analysis of the war. They should not tolerate Putin's imperialism and should fully support the right of Ukrainian people to self-determination.”

- IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

Marina Silva's Rise Is a Result of the Left's Failures, Not Success

Federico Fuentes — 2014-09-26T11:13:29Z

In the end, it is hard to find any issue on which the “anti-extractivist” Marina can be said to be to the left of the PT, even regarding environmental concerns.

- IV476 - September 2014 / Brazil

At NUMSA's Initiative, New liberation Forces Debate Future of Post-Apartheid South Africa

Federico Fuentes — 2014-09-04T11:42:07Z

Around 30 guests from across the globe and 120 shop stewards from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) met from August 7-10 in Johannesburg to discuss the prospects and challenges of building a new, left political alternative to the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the party of now deceased national hero Nelson Mandela.

- IV476 - September 2014 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, South Africa