International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The spectre of the far right is haunting Latin America

Eduardo Lucita — 2026-08-15T06:33:15Z

Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Argentina, Latin America, Far Right

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

The Wrong Lever: Europe, Ukraine, and the Refugee Question

Adam Novak — 2026-08-13T07:41:52Z

EU leaders are moving towards removal of asylum rights for Ukrainian men aged 23-60, to improve conscription and functioning of essential services in the fifth year of Ukraine's fight against Russian imperialist aggression. The Zelenskiy government asked for this change. But that does not make the policy right.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Ukraine, European Union

In Kyiv, the street makes its voice heard

Alice Pley, Nico Dix — 2026-08-12T06:46:09Z

A report from the mobilisations in Ukraine in July.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Ukraine

The battle for the beaches in Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2026-08-11T07:44:08Z

Every year people in Italy moan about the way the ‘spiaggia libera' (free access beach) is becoming smaller and smaller. At the same time the private lidos, where you have to pay for a sun umbrella and a couple of loungers, defend their privatised territory with all sorts of barriers and walls to prevent people from moving across their beach. The law says that 5 metres of the foreshore has to remain open to anybody – the privateers cannot put their sun loungers right up to the water. So often they make it difficult to walk from the free beach to the paying beach.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Italy, Public services

New escalation of repression in the face of rising resistance

Marouane — 2026-08-10T07:57:25Z

Since the autumn of 2025, the Moroccan regime has considerably hardened its repressive policy, which simultaneously hits the GenZ movement, rappers, journalists, content creators, the student movement, the world of work, unemployed graduates as well as local mobilizations for access to basic public resources and services.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Morocco

Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

Akssil Tunisie — 2026-08-09T08:31:36Z

Tunisia has recently seen a wave of protests resulting from the difficult living conditions the country's inhabitants have endured for several decades, which have gradually worsened. The situation became particularly unsustainable during the month of July, with residents regularly confronted with the policy of recurrent water cuts during the summer in the central regions (governorates of Kairouan, Sousse, Monastir and Mahdia). These four governorates have experienced 31 demonstrations and road blockades in 2024, then 15 demonstrations and blockades in 2025.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Tunisia, Public services

The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans

Aleksandar Matković — 2026-08-08T08:06:58Z

In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Albania, Serbia

How social media invented the ‘world's most racist country'

Martín Mosquera — 2026-08-07T07:49:17Z

Gabriel Vera Lopes spoke to Argentine socialist and Revista Jacobin editor-in-chief Martín Mosquera to analyse the emotional and political origins of the campaign, discuss the reality of racism in Argentina and question the role played by some of the global progressive intelligentsia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Argentina, Racism and Islamophobia

Reflexions on the Spanish Revolution of 1936

Andy Durgan — 2026-08-06T07:47:07Z

“Ultimately, the great absence in the Spanish revolution was the existence of a revolutionary organisation with the necessary strength to lead the seizure of power.”

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Spanish state, Historical events and figures