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The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities

2026-04-12T10:23:29Z

“It is through all these events that the alliances necessary to counter fascism and imperialism are being forged. It is up to us to involve the trade unions, human rights organizations, feminist and LGBTQI+ movements, anti-racist organizations, those campaigning for Palestine, and those standing in solidarity with the Ukrainian and the Iranian people. It is in this way – and by defending our eco-socialist revolutionary perspectives – that we will build the movement needed to change the world.”

- Features / Brazil, Latin America, Antifascism, Anti-imperialism

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

Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil

Women of Centelhas — 2026-04-01T12:20:09Z

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America.

- Feminism / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Features

Towards an international anti-fascist convergence

Éric Toussaint — 2026-03-24T06:39:05Z

Uniting left-wing forces to counter the rise of the far right. That is the aim of the First International Anti-Fascist Conference, to be held in late March in Porto Alegre, Brazil

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Brazil

The courts convict those who ordered the murder of Marielle Franco

Revista Movimiento — 2026-03-14T17:11:25Z

“This landmark ruling highlights the links between institutional politics, militias and economic interests in Rio de Janeiro.”

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Brazil, Women, Far Right, Racism and Islamophobia

Brazil's PSOL opposes federation with the governing PT

Ecossocialistas — 2026-03-10T15:52:59Z

The majority of the party votes to maintain its autonomy and a commitment to social change.

- News from around the world / Brazil

How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

Iain Bruce — 2026-01-13T22:30:19Z

Zohran Mamdani's election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Scotland

Launch of the International Committee for the Anti-Fascist and for the Sovereignty of Peoples Conference

Collective — 2025-12-10T10:24:03Z

On Friday, 28 November 2025, the International Committee of the Anti-Fascist Conference and for the Sovereignty of Peoples was launched. The conference will be held from 26 to 29 March 2026 in Porto Alegre. The virtual meeting, led by the Brazilian committee from the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, brought together more than 80 comrades from different parts of the world.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Brazil, Antifascism

First preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference

Collective — 2025-11-26T14:55:29Z

The organizing committee holds the first preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference.

- News from around the world / Brazil, Antifascism

Social movements and COP 30: transnational alliances against the global extractivist offensive

Maureen Zelaya Paredes, Pedro Ramiro — 2025-11-18T14:00:26Z

While empty promises are repeated in Belém, a plurality of social, indigenous and environmental movements are promoting an internationalist agenda against extractivism and for climate justice from various meeting spaces.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Climate