International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

In the time of predators

Antoine Larrache, Franck Gaudichaud, Héctor A. Rivera — 2026-03-05T14:52:00Z

The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Venezuela, Cuba, Latin America

Dreaming as internationalist materialists

2025-05-08T11:37:48Z

“We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples).

And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us today is not changing our dreams and desires. Certainly not going poaching on the side of those opposed to us, claiming that “only the far right dreams”.”

- Features / Marxism

Thinking about the (new) paths of the Latin American left and right in a world in crisis

Éric Toussaint, Franck Gaudichaud — 2024-10-17T16:58:48Z

We are publishing the foreword written by Franck Gaudichaud and Éric Toussaint at the request of the Cuban magazine Temas for a book coordinated by Julio César Guanche, to be published in Argentina under the title Izquierdas y derechas en America latina.

- Features / Latin America

Tensions, dangers and opportunities in a period of crisis

Fabrice Thomas, Franck Gaudichaud — 2024-08-18T07:19:10Z

In the context of the capitalist polycrisis that is deepening year by year throughout the world, the political, ecological and social crises in Latin America are taking a particularly acute and chaotic turn.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Latin America

“The working classes have dropped out”

Franck Gaudichaud — 2024-03-29T20:36:46Z

At mid-term, Chilean President Gabriel Boric has not yet been able to carry out the expected far-reaching reforms.

- IV590 - March 2024 / Chile

Is a new political cycle opening up in Chile?

Franck Gaudichaud, Pablo Abufom — 2024-02-06T06:33:12Z

“The path for the left and social movements will have to be a path of social struggles and class conflict, feminist and ecosocialist and throughly anticapitalist, aimed at exploding the causes of the crisis, while resolving its most immediate symptoms with short-term material solutions.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Chile

A new Constitution is rejected again: back to square one in Chile?

Franck Gaudichaud — 2023-12-29T14:08:31Z

“Overall, this result gives a breath of “fresh air” to a progressive government which, since 2021, has been characterized by a lack of transformative capacity and, above all, no desire - even minimal - to confront the dominant sectors. ”

- IV587 - December 2023 / Chile

A Revolutionary Experience. Chile 1970-1973

Franck Gaudichaud — 2023-09-11T04:23:49Z

“A true capitalist counterrevolution transformed Chile into the world's first experiment in neoliberalism.”

- IV584 - September 2023 / Chile, Historical events and figures

A new “pink wave” in Latin America?

Franck Gaudichaud — 2022-10-25T09:34:00Z

“It is a context of turbulence, where the right and the far right are on the offensive, often allied with the conservative current of the Evangelical Churches, with the big landowners and big business, with the support of a media field totally under the orders of capital.”

- IV573 - October 2022 / Latin America

Radical Left Against the Rise of Neo-Fascism

Franck Gaudichaud, Martín Mosquera — 2022-08-14T08:26:00Z

“As anti-capitalists we need to advance our own proposals in a unitary but at the same time radically autonomous way from social-liberalism.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / France, Far Right