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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
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