International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Some thoughts on Orbán's defeat

Fabrizio Burattini — 2026-04-23T09:07:54Z

“The future of Hungary is in the hands of the thousands of young people who, since Sunday night, have invaded the streets of Budapest, in the civil society that is mobilizing and organizing, in the possibility that they will not stop there and not be satisfied with Magyar's victory.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Hungary

Three years of Meloni: A model for the international far right

Fabrizio Burattini — 2025-11-06T20:53:29Z

Wednesday 22 October marked exactly three years since Giorgia Meloni took office at Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the Italian Prime Minister. Her appointment was the result of the predictable but nonetheless disastrous election results of September 2022, when the right-wing coalition (of which Fratelli d'Italia was by far the largest party) won thanks to a significant abstention rate (36%) but above all thanks to an anti-proportional representation law passed by previous centre-left governments and the deep division between the other political forces that formed the diverse opposition front in parliament.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Italy, Far Right

Migrants, Italy's “state protection” and Ursula Von Der Leyen's 10 points

Fabrizio Burattini — 2023-11-08T10:12:15Z

“The answer to the question of “migrants” is not only measured in the “humanitarian”" field. For the economy of Italian capitalism, the possibility of exploiting a workforce that can be blackmailed because it is “irregular” is an absolutely non-negligible factor of profit. This is the source of the constant opposition to any hypothesis of regularization of migratory flows.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Italy, Migration, European Union