International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 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. en SPIP - www.spip.net International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 Oscar René Vargas is Nicaragua's Latest Prisoner of Conscience https://internationalviewpoint.org/Oscar-Rene-Vargas-is-Nicaragua-s-Latest-Prisoner-of-Conscience https://internationalviewpoint.org/Oscar-Rene-Vargas-is-Nicaragua-s-Latest-Prisoner-of-Conscience 2023-01-14T09:41:55Z text/html en William I Robinson Nicaragua <p>The internationally-renowned intellectual was arrested in late November 2022, joining an ever-growing list of political prisoners detained by the Ortega regime.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV576-January-2023-" rel="directory">IV576 - January 2023</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Nicaragua-+" rel="tag">Nicaragua</a> Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega & the Ghost of Louis Bonaparte https://internationalviewpoint.org/Nicaragua-Daniel-Ortega-the-Ghost-of-Louis-Bonaparte https://internationalviewpoint.org/Nicaragua-Daniel-Ortega-the-Ghost-of-Louis-Bonaparte 2022-12-10T07:28:56Z text/html en William I Robinson Nicaragua <p>In <i>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte</i>, Karl Marx referred to the Napoleonic return to power in the French coup of 1851 as “first as tragedy, then as farce.” There could be no more fitting a characterization of the saga of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega's conversion — in about as many years as had lapsed from the fall of the first Napoleon Bonaparte to the coup carried out by his nephew Louis —from a socialist revolutionary to a repressive and corrupt petty dictator.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV575-December-2022-" rel="directory">IV575 - December 2022</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Nicaragua-+" rel="tag">Nicaragua</a>