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A mixed success for the President in Mexico

1 day 5 hours ago

On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Mexico
Fabrice Thomas

State of the Resistance

2 days ago

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That's been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we're barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)
Against the Current Editors

Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!

3 days ago

While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes' and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic', what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.

- News from around the world / Israel, Iran
Houshang Sepehr

Cristina Kirchner condemned and banned from election

3 days ago

The Argentine political field is (again) in turmoil. A few months before the mid-term legislative elections, and only a few days after the announcement of her candidacy as a regional deputy, the Supreme Court has just confirmed former president Cristina Kirchner's conviction for corruption: 6 years in prison and lifetime ineligibility.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Argentina
M. N.

The United States at War in the Middle East —Again

3 days 23 hours ago

The United States has joined Israel in its war on Iran, increasing the chances for a wider regional war, one that could become a forever-war quagmire as the Iraq War did. President Donald Trump sent B-2 bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz while a submarine launched Tomahawk missiles at another facility in Istfahan.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA), Israel, Iran
Dan La Botz

Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide

5 days 1 hour ago

Already in bad shape after 22 years of Putin's repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Russia, Ukraine, Fascism
Gin Vola, Elias Vola

Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."

6 days 5 hours ago

The leader of Anticapitalistas believes that the police plot that sought to implicate him in the alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine in 2016 was intended to attack Podemos "at a key moment in the politics of change" and announced, in an interview with elDiario.es, his willingness to take that conspiracy to the courts.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Spanish state
Miguel Urbán Crespo

Under the yoke of the militias in Libya

1 week ago

A month ago, the detonations of automatic weapons and heavy artillery resounded in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, putting an end to the illusion of a stabilisation of the country. The responsibility of prime minister Abdul Dbeibah in triggering conflicts between militias to protect his corruption network has aroused popular condemnation.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Libya
Paul Martial

Down with imperialist wars, no to the Paris Air Show!

1 week ago

With Israel's attack on Iran, the situation in the Middle East is accelerating again, while the international movement for Palestine is growing, especially in France, where the next stop is at Le Bourget airport in northern Paris. The massacre in Gaza gets more unbearable every day, with the murders of Gazans during humanitarian aid distributions, starvation, images of emaciated children and examples of the absolute horror experienced by the people.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Palestine, France, Israel
Antoine Larrache

The imperial engine of fascism

1 week 1 day ago

The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?

- Features / Far Right, Fascism
Antoine Dubiau

He's suddenly a risk to ‘national security'

1 week 1 day ago

“Solidarity actions like these have a long history. It was Swedish dockworkers who first refused to handle cargo from Chile after the coup d'etat and installation of Pinochet, and who pioneered the Swedish boycott on South African cargo in solidarity with the anti-apartheid movement.”

- Features / Palestine, Sweden, Trade unions/workplace organizing
Polly Smythe

French Dockers Block Weapons to Israel

1 week 2 days ago

On Wednesday 4 June, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel's war crimes.

- Features / Palestine, France, Trade unions/workplace organizing
Kadal Jesuthasan

Germany's Enslavement to Its Past Kept It Silent on Gaza for Far Too Long

1 week 2 days ago

Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said "Never Again," and now: "again," with arms, with funding, with silence. There is no country that should be better than Germany at "discerning nauseating processes." Every German knows much more about them than Yair Golan. Here in Israel they are in full swing, yet Germany has not yet recognized them for what they are. It was only recently that it woke up too late and to too little effect.

- Features / Germany, Israel
Gideon Levy

‘Brazil must set the example': Unions, MPs urge Lula to cut ties with Israel over Gaza genocide

1 week 2 days ago

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva needs to shift from words to action and break ties with Israel over its ongoing war on Gaza — that is the message coming from a growing number of trade unions, left parliamentarians, intellectuals and artists.

- Features / Palestine, Brazil
Federico Fuentes

On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran

1 week 2 days ago

Radical Socialist endorses the statement of the Fourth International issued on 13th June on the current Israeli war of aggression against Iran. Hence, we are reproducing the statement below. At the same time, we want our readers, especially in India, to note strongly certain concerns, some briefly mentioned in the FI statement, others specific to the Indian context.

- News from around the world / Fourth International, India, Israel, Iran
Radical Socialist

Because it won't be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?

1 week 3 days ago

The blackout of April 28 shook the Iberian Peninsula and southern France for several hours. Everyone who lives there was affected in some way. It has been a topic of conversation that, to avoid remaining an anecdote, requires some in-depth analysis, given the systemic risks of a repeat. We must draw lessons for the future.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Spanish state, Ecology and the Environment, Public services
Daniel Albarracín
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International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.
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