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Amnesty says lack of progress over death of Franco in Rio in March shows ‘incompetence’ of Brazil’s criminal justice system
Four months after the unsolved murder of black Rio de Janeiro councillor and human rights defender Marielle Franco, Amnesty International has called for independent (...)
In May 2017, Left politics in Brazil were pretty bleak. It was almost a year after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), whose ousting from power brought along with it an onslaught of austerity policies. The violence in the countryside against rural (...)
On March 14, Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Pedro Gomez were murdered in cold blood after leaving an event promoting Afro-Brazilian women’s civil rights. Marielle was a Black, queer, feminist member of the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) who served on the Rio de Janeiro city (...)
WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MARIELLE FRANCO
On March 14th, one of Brazil’s most courageous social leaders was brutally assassinated on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Marielle Franco, a city councilwoman and human rights defender, was shot four times in the head by unknown assailants in a passing (...)
Prominent activists, film-makers and writers demand an independent investigation into the killing of the campaigner and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, in Rio de Janeiro.
Last week one of Brazil’s most courageous social leaders was brutally assassinated on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. (...)
The president and his party-gang are directly responsible for the economic crisis and the violence that tears the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro and that allowed the political assassination of Marielle and Anderson.
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Dear Mr. President of the Republic (who no one elected) (...)
Last week, Brazilian socialist Marielle Franco was assassinated on the streets of Rio. The questions surrounding her death are dangerous ones for Brazil’s reactionary right.
“Who killed Marielle Franco?”. That is the question splayed across banners, spray-painted on walls, Sharpied onto (...)
Just as U.S. Media Does With MLK, Brazil’s Media Is Trying to Whitewash and Exploit Marielle Franco’s Political Radicalism.
ON SUNDAY NIGHT, Brazil’s most powerful television outlet, Rede Globo, devoted 45 minutes of its highly watched “Fantastico” program to the assassination of Rio City (...)
As thousands take to the streets of Rio and São Paolo to protest the politician’s brutal murder, Glenn Greenwald remembers a formidable and fearless advocate for Rio’s poorest citizens.
One of Brazil’s most promising, charismatic and beloved political figures was brutally murdered on (...)
Activist of the LGTB movement, the World March of Women, City Councilor of the Party Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) in Rio de Janeiro and in charge of the commission of inquiry into the violence perpetrated by the army and the police against young people Afro-descendants in Rio, Marielle Franco (...)
On 14 March, Marielle Franco, a city councillor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of the Socialism and Freedom Party, was assassinated. In a piece originally published on the website of the Brazilian New Socialist Organisation (NOS) (...)
The bars across Rio’s South Zone were packed with fans watching Flamengo defeat Ecuadorian team Emelec. The Rio football team was surging on social media as well, leading Brazil’s trending topics on Twitter on Wednesday night. Amidst thousands of tweets about the players who turned the game (...)
Marielle Franco, known for criticism of police tactics, was killed in apparent assassination.
Protests were held across Brazil after a popular Rio city councillor and her driver were shot dead by two men in what appears to have been a targeted assassination.
Marielle Franco, 38, was a (...)
A well-known socialist in Brazil was assassinated Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro. Marielle Franco, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) and a Rio city council member representing the poor community of Favela da Maré, was shot dead along with her driver—an adviser was also (...)
The World March of Women expresses its sadness and deep indignation at the murder of Marielle Franco, a feminist militant and city councillor of PSOL - Partido Socialismo e Liberdade in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was shot dead inside her car on Wednesday, March 14. In this moment (...)
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable 16 years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed revolutionary (...)
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable sixteen years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed (...)
On July 8, 2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, one of the principal militants of the Christian socialist left in Brazil, died in Sao Paulo at the age of 84.
From a wealthy background, Plinio started his militancy with the Catholic University Youth (JUC). A lawyer by profession, before the (...)
João Machado was a leader of DS throughout the period in question. This text draws on parts of a written contribution to the Seminar dedicated to Daniel Bensaid, held at the IIRE in January 2012. However, Bensaid’s role in DS’s discussions was not singled out just for that reason – he really (...)
The Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) expresses its profound grief over the death of one of its leading members, comrade Paulo Piramba, who died last Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, and sends its condolences to his family, friends and comrades, and especially to his dear partner, Luciene (...)
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