International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Preparing the Left for Russia's Future Crisis

Ivan Drury Zarin, Mikhail Lobanov — 2026-09-06T09:19:42Z

“In 2018, Mikhail Lobanov won a seat in Russia's parliament, soundly defeating one of Putin's most well-funded candidates in an upheaval reminiscent of some of the recent democratic socialist wins in U.S. races. But rather than take this seat to uphold independent, democratic socialist, and anti-war politics in the Russian government, his seat was stolen through electoral fraud, and police harassed, arrested and beat him and raided his home, driving him out of the country.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Russia

What Victory Means: Relase All Political Prisoners

Ivan Drury Zarin, Kseniia Kagarlitskaya — 2026-09-03T12:51:33Z

“We are fighting for the release of all political prisoners. We think that every peace negotiation between Ukraine and Russia should include a point for the release of all political prisoners, on both sides. In Ukraine there are also political prisoners, so victory would mean the release of everybody.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Russia

Three general characteristics of the new era of fascism

Ivan Drury Zarin — 2026-04-04T06:51:27Z

Fascism has been, over the last decade, and especially more recently, an object of vigorous debate on the left. But, as a long editorial from the Salvage collective bemoaned about debates over what to make of Russia's war on Ukraine, much of this debate has been stuck in the ditch of historical analogy. Is Trumpism more like Mussolini's or Hitler's fascism? When we stack up all the measures of rights violated and attacked, does the far right today pass the test of comparison with major fascist events of the 20th century?

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Brazil, Antifascism