International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The streets against the regime in Serbia: one year of mobilization in review

Ellana Caldin — 2025-10-31T05:42:14Z

For a year now, young people in Serbia have been continuing their fight for a democratic society in the face of Aleksandar Vučić's authoritarian regime. On both sides of Serbia, student marches are criss-crossing the country in the direction of Novi Sad to commemorate the collapse of the railway station, responsible for the deaths of 16 people on 1 November 2024. This tragic event triggered a political protest on an unprecedented scale.

Bruised but determined, the Ukrainian people fight on

Dominique — 2025-10-30T18:44:27Z

While diplomatic manoeuvres take centre stage, the Ukrainian people, in an increasingly difficult context, continue to resist, including in the occupied zones.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Ukraine

After Rajoelina's regime collapses - desire for a radical break

Paul Martial — 2025-10-29T16:22:58Z

As international pressure mounts to demand the restoration of constitutional order, young people from GenZ and workers are sketching out what the Madagascar of tomorrow could look like.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Madagascar

Oil Speaks Loudest: Environmental backsliding and the limits of Brazil's energy transition

Subvertacomunica — 2025-10-28T07:32:28Z

“The recent decision by Ibama (the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to grant the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, an environmental licence for exploratory drilling along the Equatorial Margin, near the mouth of the Amazon River, represents a huge step backwards for the country's environmental and energy policy. It shows that the logic of fossil fuel-based development continues to dominate within the Brazilian state, something that we urgently need to overcome.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment

The United States Prepares for War on Venezuela

Dan La Botz — 2025-10-27T07:22:09Z

The United States is preparing for war against Venezuela. While President Donald Trump has asserted that the country's goal is to stop shipments of Venezuelan drugs to the United States, in private conversations U.S. officials have made it clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This forms part of Trump's goal of reasserting U.S. domination in Latin America such as it exercised in the nineteenth century by gunboats and in the twentieth century by installing friendly governments.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / United States (USA), Venezuela

Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left in Ireland

Paul Murphy — 2025-10-26T08:06:10Z

Catherine Connolly's resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Ireland

Will Trump's bail-out be enough for Milei?

Martin Hache — 2025-10-25T07:57:13Z

On Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Argentina

Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity

Amel Hadjadj — 2025-10-24T05:55:18Z

“On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, Women, Algeria

The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!

Andreas Sartzekis — 2025-10-23T14:32:48Z

On 1st October 1, a general strike was called in Greece by the GSEE (single private sector confederation), ADEDY (public sector federation) and many other federations and unions. It was very popular and focused on the rejection of a monstrous bill: allowing a13-hour working day for the same employer (we know that many Greeks have long been reduced to having two jobs).

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Greece, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Morocco's Gen Z and the Regional Volcano

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-10-22T13:55:50Z

The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Tunisia, Morocco, Youth and student movements