International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Rampage of the Surveillance State: What's Behind the Minneapolis Indictments?

Randy Furst — 2026-08-20T08:51:26Z

FOR TWO MONTHS last winter, 4000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unleashed an assault on the Twin Cities with a violent roundup of immigrants, prompting a mass, nonviolent grassroots resistance movement that eventually involved hundreds of thousands of protesters. The Trump administration was forced to retreat.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA), Migration

Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

Malik Miah — 2026-08-16T06:04:43Z

TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA), Migration, Racism and Islamophobia

Ceuta: the boundary of the right to have rights

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2026-08-14T07:49:34Z

Last Friday [31 July], thousands of people swam across the border to reach the autonomous city of Ceuta. This enclave of some 83,000 people received, in a matter of 24 hours, just over 50,000 more people, exhausted from a migratory journey that has caused the deaths of at least 100 in the last two days. In summer, arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla by sea increase significantly, as sea fog hinders early detection on the coast by the Civil Guard. But no one in the government seemed to foresee a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, with significant political repercussions that extend far beyond the usual media headlines.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Spanish state, Migration

Forcing Refugees To Return to Syria is a Bad Idea

Joseph Daher — 2026-07-11T10:23:20Z

“Not only are the conditions for a safe and dignified return to Syria not given. Without economic recovery and the reconstruction of critical state infrastructure a mass return of refugees to Syria would only worsen socio-economic conditions within the country and threaten large sectors of society dependent on remittances to survive.”

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Germany, Syria, Migration

Trump, Miller Take away Immigrants' Rights, Sometimes Their Lives, but Resistance Continues

2026-06-01T09:42:39Z

While President Donald Trump is busy with a war on Iran, plans for Cuba, and his rebuilding of the White House, Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor, a rightwing racist, works relentlessly to arrest, imprison, and deport more immigrants and make America whiter. As they do, they continue to encounter resistance from politicians, lawyers, and protestors who oppose them, taking risks to do so.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Migration

Movement Builds to Free Milwaukee Muslim Leader Detained by ICE

Mike McCallister — 2026-04-22T16:42:09Z

On Monday, March 30, Salah Sarsour, President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) was stopped by a dozen vehicles and arrested by 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who first took him to the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois, and then to the Clay County Justice Center, near Terre Haute, Indiana.

- News from around the world / United States (USA), Migration, Protest movements

Deaths to order

Andreas Sartzekis — 2026-02-27T16:39:12Z

“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Greece, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Remigration and (it is) fascism

Osservatorio Repressione — 2026-02-16T11:30:15Z

Trumpism with an Italian twist is on the rise: don't underestimate it, get organised to stop it!

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Italy, Migration

National Protests Continue Against ICE and Trump

Dan La Botz — 2026-02-01T18:14:47Z

President Donald Trump continues ICE raids, arrests of journalists, and seizing election records, as the public turns against him. All of this is about the mid-term election in November, which Republicans could lose.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Migration, Protest movements

Europe's death chamber

Ellana Caldin — 2026-01-28T11:44:48Z

They are Baloch, Moroccan or Afghan. Crowded into camps around Belgrade, some of them attempt ‘games', i.e. they try to cross the border with smugglers. The others, resigned to their fate, learn to live in appalling conditions. Since the closure of the Balkan route, Serbia has established itself as Europe's border guard.

- Serbia dossier January 2026 / Serbia, Migration