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 (...)
Two of Brazil’s major people’s fronts released a statement on the result of the country’s presidential elections. The election is over, but the fight is just beginning:
We hold our heads up resisting for Brazil!
We lived an entirely atypical electoral process. Since the end of the military (...)
The MST’s Débora Nunes talks about the campaign against Bolsonaro, the threats of a potential fascist presidency and the role of international solidarity.
On October 28, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. The candidate of fascism, supported by the most conservative sectors of (...)
Brazil is on the verge of electing a Duterte-style fascist. What can the left do? Dear friends:
I’m writing to you on the eve of your going to the polls to determine the future of your wonderful country.
I think it’s no exaggeration to say that the fate of Brazil hangs in the balance. It’s also (...)
To understand Jair Bolsonaro’s rise, we need to look at centrists’ reckless efforts to exploit institutional meltdown.
Barring an unprecedented upset, the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro will be elected president of Brazil this Sunday with a comfortable margin over his runoff opponent, the (...)
Establishment outlets like the Economist insist the Brazilian military is a moderating influence on the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. But precisely the opposite is true.
The first round of Brazil’s elections saw the neo-fascist candidate Jair Bolsonaro come within four points of victory. (...)
Comrades and Friends of MST around the World,
We would like to share some of our views on this delicate moment of Brazilian politics in the last week of the election campaign :
1. This election is very special because it can mean the victory or defeat of the coup against democracy started in (...)
FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was a fringe extremist in Brazilian politics, known mostly for outlandish, deliberately inflammatory quotes in which he paid homage to the most notorious torturers of the 1964-1985 military regime, constantly heralded the 1964 coup as a (...)
IN THE 2ND ROUND THE PSOL CALLS FOR A VOTE FOR HADDAD AND MANUELA
The elections in the first round ended up maintaining the same scenario of instability and polarization provoked by the 2016 coup and which deepened an economic and social crisis that had already unfolded. It also deepened a (...)
The far-right Jair Bolsonaro came to the verge of winning power after a strong showing in Brazil’s presidential election last weekend, but he will face the candidate of the Workers’ Party in an October 28 runoff. Below, Todd Chretien provides an analysis of the first-round result as an (...)
What it means that a far-right fascist sympathizer is a leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election this Sunday
Jair Bolsonaro is an unavoidable name in Brazilian politics nowadays, and has been for a few years. A few days before election day on October 7, the most recent polls indicate (...)
When police rescued Abelar Rebouças from a coffee plantation in southern Brazil, he was bone thin. The 51-year-old worked long days for a month in the hot sun, hauling 15-gallon bags of coffee beans.
His drinking water came from a ditch near a septic tank, according to government reports. When (...)
The country needs a new project of development for the people. More subordination, submission and exploitation of the people will not be a way out for Brazil.
Brazil is going through a grave economic, political, social and environmental crisis. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of (...)
When Lazaro Rutino needs a break from hauling beef across Brazil in his truck, he swipes on his phone and is instantly connected to dozens of other truckers. Rutino, 59, is a member of eight trucker groups on WhatsApp, the messaging service that has become a staple for Brazilians of all walks (...)
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