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

Hungary 2026: An Autopsy of Sixteen Years of Illiberalism.

Adam Novak — 2026-04-16T08:42:38Z

The Hungarian legislative elections of 12 April 2026 brought to an end sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. Péter Magyar's Tisza (Respect and Freedom [Tisztelet és Szabadság]) party won a super-majority of 138 seats out of 199, inflicting on Fidesz a defeat explained by judicial scandals, saturation of the identitarian discourse, a generational fracture, and the concrete effects of the freeze on European funds.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Hungary

Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists

Gus Fagan — 2026-02-07T11:57:07Z

Gus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Germany, Hungary, Antifascism

Hungary: Orbán's new LGBTIphobic attacks

Manue Mallet, Hor — 2025-04-08T06:08:00Z

On 16 March 2025 the Hungarian parliament, dominated by prime minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, voted to ban the Budapest Pride March. Already, in 2021, under the pretext of “child protection”, any propaganda for homosexuality (which can be holding hands for a couple, or having a “look” identified as queer) was banned and punished with a 500 euro fine.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Hungary

The far right experience in Hungary

Janos — 2022-06-05T15:11:17Z

In the recent Hungarian general election in April 2022, the ruling coalition, composed of Prime Minister Victor Orban's Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party, won 50% of the vote. Another far-right, neo-Nazi party, the Our Homeland Movement, won 5%. What characterizes these parties and how did we get to this point?

- IV569 - June 2022 / Hungary, Far Right, NATO

The lead up to the 2022 election campaign in Hungary

Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs — 2022-01-19T10:29:45Z

“In the case the political space is opened up by an electoral change in 2022, it is likely to remain dominated by a rearrangement of inter-capitalist conflicts and alliances, without significant influence from popular self-organization, and seriously contained by the privatization measures Fidesz is currently pursuing the protection of its economic dependants. However, a possible post-pandemic crisis might induce more serious ruptures in the capitalist regime built up by Fidesz.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Hungary, Covid-19 Pandemic

Hungary: pre-election situation and emergence of a new anticapitalist left

Inprecor — 2021-06-27T10:16:27Z

Interview with Annajuli Rosenfeld (Solidarity Action Group), Péter Somogyi (Spark), and Zoltán Sidó and Ágnes Gagyi (Solidarity Economy Center)

- IV557 - June 2021 / Hungary

Boris Johnson and the Orbanisation of Britain

Joseph Healy — 2021-04-24T20:41:14Z

In January of 2020, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister and strongman of Hungary, called Boris Johnson, “one of the bravest politicians in Europe”. He congratulated the Tory Party on winning the general election the previous month despite “the whole world” being against Johnson.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Britain, Hungary

The New Right Wing Triangle in the Trump-Orbán-Netanyahu Era

Catherine Samary — 2020-08-13T08:32:29Z

On 8 July, 2020 a videoconference was broadcast by Viktor Orbán, Janez Janša and Aleksandar Vu?i?, respectively the heads of government of Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia. The moderator, François-Xavier Bellamy, was the leader in the European Parliament (EP) of the French right-wing party Les Républicains (LR), which. like the parties of the Hungarian and Slovenian leaders, is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) . They defended a Europe “without censorship” which protects itself from “foreigners” (and LGBT people).

- IV547 - August 2020 / Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia

Fighting Back against Hungary's Ban on Legal Gender Recognition

Tina Kolos Orban — 2020-08-02T07:19:00Z

One of the laws voted on by the Viktor Orban government during the pandemic makes mandatory a “sex at birth” rubric on official identification documents. This makes legal gender recognition impossible, violently ruling against trans and gender non-conforming persons' right to exist. Tina Kolos serves as vice-president of Transvanilla Transgender Association – the only active NGO focusing only on trans issues in Hungary. They have kindly answered our questions about the effects of the law in Hungary, the trans community's fight against it, and the broader associational landscape in which Transvanilla carry out legal and social work.

- IV547 - August 2020 / Hungary, LGBT