International Viewpoint

Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE “ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they're afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE

The Algerian Regime: Incompetence, Inconsistency, Arrogance and Repression! Early 2026 has been turbulent for the Algerian regime, marked by an accumulation of improvisations and tensions creating a state of alert. A series of social and political events have highlighted structural and latent contradictions in governmental affairs management that contradict the president's triumphalist rhetoric. - IVP613 - February 2026 / Algeria

The Algerian Regime: Incompetence, Inconsistency, Arrogance and Repression!

Roots of the Labour Crisis The Starmer projest is crashing. - IVP613 - February 2026 / Britain

Roots of the Labour Crisis

Lessons from Minneapolis “The outpouring of protest and support for immigrants is a multiracial fightback based in the working class with anti-racist politics at its heart. It is a powerful antidote to Trump's use of anti-immigrant scapegoating.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA)

Lessons from Minneapolis

Jetten 1: harsh neoliberal policies to continue “That direction is hard right, outspokenly neoliberal, completely antisocial and a choice in favour of capital. It is a direction of severe cuts to social services, attacks on migrants and refugees, giving free rein to businesses and increasing militarization.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / Netherlands

Jetten 1: harsh neoliberal policies to continue

In Lyons, the regrettable consequences of the fascist atmosphere “More than ever, we need to build a united mass front capable of pushing back the fascists at the ballot box, but above all in the streets, in neighbourhoods and in workplaces.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / France, Far Right

In Lyons, the regrettable consequences of the fascist atmosphere

Remigration and (it is) fascism

A Victory for the Resistance to ICE and Trump The resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to President Donald Trump's mass deportation program won a victory last week when Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan announced that they were ending the ICE surge in Minneapolis. - IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA)

A Victory for the Resistance to ICE and Trump

The process of accumulating wealth in the formation of a new Venezuelan bourgeoisie (2002-2026) Since the beginning of the 20th century, the exploitation of oil in Venezuela has shaped particular characteristics of capitalist development: the formation of social classes and their political representation, the model of bourgeois enrichment, and forms of social control. The Brazilian economist Celso Furtado defined the Venezuelan case as “underdevelopment with an abundance of foreign exchange,” manifested in deindustrialisation, corruption, rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and severe poverty crises. - IVP613 - February 2026 / Economy, Venezuela

The process of accumulating wealth in the formation of a new Venezuelan bourgeoisie (2002-2026)

In defence of Cuba against the neocolonial blockade and starvation imposed by Trump The neo-fascist in the White House is attempting to bring the Caribbean island and its government to its knees, strangling it economically once and for all, killing its people with darkness and scarcity. But this is not “just” a war against Cuba and its revolutionary tradition. It is the continuation of the war against the sovereignty of all Latin American countries and Latino peoples within the United States. In particular, Lula, Petro, Orsini and the foreign governments of social democracy must emphatically oppose this crime in all international forums and organizations. - IVP613 - February 2026 / Cuba, Latin America

In defence of Cuba against the neocolonial blockade and starvation imposed by Trump

In Search of Russia's Lost Opposition The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests. - Features / Denmark, Russia

In Search of Russia's Lost Opposition

Why Russia's ruling class is obsessed with the West Vladimir Putin and his ruling elite are obsessed with the West “which is simultaneously seen as both the main adversary and the only potential partner”, […] that obsession has “its roots in the reactionary legacy of the Russian Empire”. - Features / Russia

Why Russia's ruling class is obsessed with the West

Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump's Warmongering While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression. - Features / Latin America

Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump's Warmongering

USA/Africa: privatisation of health aid Recent agreements between the United States and some fifteen African countries are radically reshaping health cooperation on the continent, even as Washington has just left the World Health Organisation (WHO). These new partnerships are part of the so-called America First Global Health strategy, which makes aid conditional on US priorities. In December, Washington signed memoranda with some fifteen countries setting specific objectives for epidemic surveillance, laboratory strengthening (…) - IVP613 - February 2026 / Africa, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau

USA/Africa: privatisation of health aid

Venezuela after the coup “Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.” - Features / Venezuela

Venezuela after the coup

Lyes is freed! After 59 days of unjust imprisonment, Lyes Touati has finally been acquitted - 59 days of waiting, mobilization, solidarity and determination. - News from around the world / Algeria

Lyes is freed!

Where is Ahmad al-Chareh's Syria heading?

In the face of climate catastrophe, Portugal mobilizes vote against the far right António José Seguro was elected President of the Republic of Portugal on Sunday with 67% of the vote, comfortably beating the neo-fascist candidate he faced in the second round, André Ventura (33%). - IVP613 - February 2026 / Portugal

In the face of climate catastrophe, Portugal mobilizes vote against the far right

Purges and Regime Crisis in China The dismissal of General Zhang Youxia was officially announced on January 24. This is another step in the purges that have been taking place within the Chinese army's general staff. Zhang was considered “untouchable” given his supposed closeness to Xi Jinping. As for the Central Military Commission (CMC), it is now a hollow shell, having lost five of its seven members. Xi continues to clear the field around him, contrary to any form of collegiality. - IVP613 - February 2026 / China

Purges and Regime Crisis in China

Criticism of Trump by Democrats, Republicans Grows as his Support Falls “Now things have changed. Republicans have criticized his immigrant deportation policies, his racist posts, and his threat to take over the election process. At the same time support for Trump is declining as shown in polls.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA)

Criticism of Trump by Democrats, Republicans Grows as his Support Falls

Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists Gus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary - IVP613 - February 2026 / Germany, Hungary, Antifascism

Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists

Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation “To tell the truth, however painful it may be, there are no possibilities at this time for unified mobilisations that demonstrate anti-imperialist national unity. Maduro's regime has led us to this disaster.” - IVP613 - February 2026 / Venezuela

Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation

Why Myanmar's Election Matters for India's Northeast The election marks a new phase in the junta's attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders. - IVP613 - February 2026 / India, Myanmar

Why Myanmar's Election Matters for India's Northeast

A historic peasant mobilization in Greece For two months, Greek peasants mobilized with a partial blockade of major roads. While this type of movement has occurred before, this one is remarkable for its duration, the number of participants, its geographical scope, and also the way it was organized. - IVP613 - February 2026 / Greece, Farmers/peasants/land

A historic peasant mobilization in Greece

On the Recent Agreement Between Damascus and the Kurdish Administration

Zurich: 3,000 people protest against Trump and the WEF

Volunteering in Wartime Ukraine “I was especially interested in understanding the specific nature of working-class volunteerism, a topic that is rarely discussed. ” - IVP612 - January 2026 / Ukraine

Volunteering in Wartime Ukraine

National Protests Continue Against ICE and Trump 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

National Protests Continue Against ICE and Trump

Socialism or Barbarism - On the Eve of the 21st Century

Kamil Abu Haniesh – leader among Palestinian prisoners Today, thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel – and one of those who spent the longest time behind bars is Abu Haniesh, who has become a symbol of the struggle to which he has devoted his entire life. - IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine

Kamil Abu Haniesh – leader among Palestinian prisoners