After experiencing a whole year with a far-right president as head of state in Brazil, namely Jair Bolsonaro, we have to try and understand the steps that led to this situation.
I arrived in Sao Paulo, the financial and economic capital of Brazil, on the night of 14 November 2019. The city has (...)
The far-right president’s violent, discriminatory rhetoric has unleashed a rise in attacks on marginalized populations.
It’s 6:30 am on Monday, June 24. three plainclothes police officers from the São Paulo criminal investigations department walk up to the apartment of Janice Ferreira da Silva. (...)
Running on the ticket of the little-known Social Liberal Party (PSL) in Brazil’s general election last October, the virtually unknown Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and marginal congressperson representing a Rio de Janeiro riding since the early 1990s, promised to be tough on crime and (...)
Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, has been one of Europe’s most influential Marxists for the past 30 years. In this interview, translated from Portuguese, he discusses Jair Bolsonaro and the global return of the right.
In this interview, Löwy discusses the advance of (...)
In recent weeks, polarization has deepened in Brazilian politics. Amidst the enormous difficulties of parliamentary articulation of the government and serious denunciations of corruption against the Bolsonaro family, a general strike took place on June 14 that paralyzed some categories of (...)
A nationwide education strike on May 15 became the platform for the biggest anti-government protests since President Jair Bolsonaro took power.
More than 1 million people demonstrated, some estimating up to 2 million. Protests brought together unions, academics, teachers, students, campaign (...)
If Jair Bolsonaro isn’t stopped, Brazil may go down a far-right path of no return. We need a political project strong enough to defeat him.
Just a couple of months ago, commentators were complaining that Jair Bolsonaro was not doing much with his presidency. The Brazilian president, recovering (...)
The rise of the far right is a worldwide phenomenon, rooted in the nefarious effects of neoliberal globalization which have pushed the world into mass unemployment and enormous inequalities. I consider it to be a late political effect of the global financial crisis that hit the world at the (...)
President Bolsonaro has accused schoolteachers of indoctrination but educators say his aim is to stifle critical thinking.
Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged school students to film teachers during class if they suspect them of pushing leftist ideas, reigniting a battle in one of the most contested (...)
Jair Bolsonaro’s election in Brazil marked the decline of trade unions as the primary site of working-class organization; and the rise of Evangelical churches in their place.
Jair Bolsonaro, since winning the presidencyin the most unpredictable election in Brazilian history, has been striving (...)
The opening speech of the Systemic Alternatives symposium of social movements (Itaipava RJ, Brazil, 7-9 April 2019)
As many of you may be aware, Brazil is currently undergoing an enormous crisis. In this country of 207.7 million people, six millionaires possess more wealth than 100 million (...)
The coming to office of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought to the fore the need to understand the rise of the far right and to come to terms with the conflicted legacies of more than a decade of rule under the Workers’ Party. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different (...)
1- The self-proclamation of the right-wing Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela, in a coup d’état led by Trump, to pave the way for direct intervention in the neighboring country, placed Latin America as a center of tension in the global situation. By directly operating this policy, U.S. (...)
All solidarity with the workers, black people, women, youth, natives, peasants, landless and homeless people, LGBTI community, teachers, professors, scientists and artists who will be the targets of “ultra” neoliberal, conservative and authoritarian policies of the new occupant of Planalto (...)
Marcelo Ramos, a member of PSOL, reports on the dangers and the prospects for resistance in Brazil after the election of Bolsonaro – the “Trump in the tropics”. This is the text of his speech at a meeting of Socialist Resistance in London on 6 November 2018.
Today Brazil is living through one of (...)
Following the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, Marcelo Badaró Mattos asks how we got here.
Marcelo Badaró Mattos is Professor of Brazilian History at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, where he is a member of NIEP-Marx (a Marxist interdisciplinary research group). (...)
João Pedro Stedile – of the national board of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) – on the election results in Brazil and the way forward.
The devastating victory of extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential elections on October 28 left many across the world (...)
Following Brazil’s election of a far-right president, leaders on the left have planned demonstrations across the country.
Opponents of Brazil’s newly elected far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have vowed to hit the streets to oppose the intolerance and violence they fear he will inflict upon (...)
Landless workers’ leader spoke with Brasil de Fato on the next steps for the left after Jair Bolsonaro’s victory.
“We leave this process with closer ties and organized capacity and strength to resist this professed fascist offensive,” said João Pedro Stedile, from the national coordination of the (...)
Pierre Beaudet, an editor of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme , is a long-standing member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, which first met in 2001 in Porto Alegre, just a year before the Workers Party (PT) was elected to the presidency of Brazil. The WSF has met almost (...)
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