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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

IVP 618 PDF

International Viewpoint — 2026-08-05T09:12:53Z

The July 2026 issue spans 37 pieces across five continents, with US politics and a summer of climate breakdown dominating the main news section.

- IVP618 - July 2026

World Social Forum Banned and Suppressed - Reinstated!

Inprecor — 2026-08-05T07:54:29Z

Finally the WSF has been authorised and will start today.

- News from around the world / Social Forum, Benin

Hinge, Not Pole: India in a Fragmenting Global Order

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-08-05T07:45:55Z

The first year of Donald Trump's return to the US presidency has accelerated an ongoing transformation: the disintegration of US-led neoliberal globalisation. From the 1990s through the post-2008 period, global capitalism was organised through a structured hierarchy, with US financial dominance, global value chains, and multilateral institutions that secured the conditions for capital accumulation. That architecture is now visibly fraying.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / India

For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front

Farooq Tariq — 2026-08-04T09:54:27Z

Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.

- Features / Pakistan, Anti-imperialism

The Ortega-Murillo Dictatorship Was Not Born of the Revolution

Mónica Baltodano — 2026-08-04T08:58:38Z

“Every 19 July, the same debate returns. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship insists on presenting itself as heir to the Sandinista Popular Revolution. At the same time, part of the opposition accepts that narrative and ends up reinforcing it by asserting that the current regime is nothing more than the logical consequence of the 1979 revolution.”

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Nicaragua

Colonialism, conquest, extermination, white supremacy, the roots of Trump's policy

Patrick Le Moal — 2026-08-03T08:03:42Z

“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate & equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / United States (USA)

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman