Sérgio Moro convicted Lula for corruption. The judgment on this decision cannot be just legal. It’s mostly political. Legally, the process did not end. Many lawyers and jurists argue that the case of the triplex has not enough evidence for conviction. At the same time they sustain that the case (...)
Brazilian President Michel Temer’s conservative government is reeling in the face of an explosive corruption scandal . After a period of confusion and demoralization following the impeachment of Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff last spring, workers and students appear to have found (...)
Hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations in 19 state capitals and other cities around the country. There were partial stoppages in at least 28 sectors, with workers in education and public transport, from both the private and state sectors, taking the lead. There were also occupations (...)
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The end of the world has already arrived in Brazil.
At least that’s what people here are saying. A constitutional amendment passed by the Senate last month is being called “the end of the world” amendment by its opponents . Why? Because the consequences of the amendment look (...)
For most of the time, Rousseff’s impeachment was an act of the gangster Eduardo Cunha, supported by former allies of the PT government, that set up an institutional coup a la Honduras and Paraguay. Also in these little brother countries in Latin America, elected governments were dismissed by (...)
The holiday period and the Olympic Games, which started on Friday August 5, have been a contributory factor to Brazilians not taking to the streets in large numbers to contest or support the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Fatigue after more than a year of demonstrations, combined with the (...)
Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos interviewed by Suzi Weissman.
Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Beneath the Surface, I’m Suzi Weissman. I’m extremely pleased to have Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos back with us. He’s in Campinas, Brazil, that’s not too far from São Paulo; it’s the university there. He’s a professor (...)
The entire world is currently watching the murder of democracy and justice in Brazil with rage and sadness.
On 17th April the impeachment voting against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was live broadcasted from the Parliament.. Using arguments such as the development, faith and family (...)
Let’s call a spade a spade. What has just happened in Brazil, with the dismissal of the elected president, Dilma Rousseff, is a coup. A coup which is pseudo-legal, “constitutional”, “institutional”, parliamentary, anything you want, but a coup all the same
Parliamentarians – deputies and senators – (...)
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended from her office while she goes on trial by the Senate. If convicted, she would be removed from office, which is what is meant in Brazil by “impeachment.” Anyone, even Brazilians, who have been trying to follow the last several months of (...)
No to Temer’s government imposed by an corrupt Congress
No more austerity! General elections now!
Brazil’s new president Michel Temer took office on May 12th. The reestructuring of admnistration was announced on Thursday, only hours after the Senate voted to suspend the mandate and (...)
May 13, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Brazil’s Federal Senate voted on May 12 to proceed with the impeachment process against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in a move that many see as an attempt by the right-wing opposition to carry out a “institutional coup”. (...)
Organizing resistance and advancing for a combative and anti-capitalist new left
MES´s Document by National Coordination of Movimento Esquerda Socialista/ internal tendency of PSOL
Introduction
The crisis of the Brazilian political system has gained new chapters. The vote in the Lower House (...)
The approval of the opening of the impeachment process of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff by the Chamber of Deputies with a significant majority is a big defeat for the government and the PT.
Almost all the parties of the right who were in the government, and most especially the PMDB, the (...)
The crisis is not yet the event, but it is already the announcement of it, a door opened.... hours are transformed then suddenly into minutes and years into days. Daniel Bensaïd
The world is witnessing with perplexity the political, legal and media coup, called in Brazil “the institutional (...)
April 19, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In response to the recent vote in the lower house of Brazil’s parliament in favor of impeaching president Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s two main coalitions of social movements issued the below statement on April 17. Both the Popular (...)
Dilma, so different now that the times have changed, can now see that the “wretched democrats who do democracy by halves are allowing the coup that will destroy them.“Saint-Just, one of the most prominent Jacobins in the French Revolution, anticipated his own destiny in bitterly saying that (...)
Brazil is experiencing a profound institutional crisis, the biggest since the end of the dictatorship. The Roussef government is seriously damaged, leading to its paralysis, but so are the principal institutions of bourgeois democracy. The main leaders in Parliament are involved in Operation (...)
The vote on impeachment, which is in a decisive week, makes clear the interests of the ruling classes and their inclination to reverse the losses from the global economic crisis. It is the class struggle carried out in government offices.
Brazil is experiencing a severe economic, political and (...)
The BRIC countries are in trouble. For a season the dynamos of international growth while the West was mired in the worst financial crisis and recession since the Depression, they are now the leading source of anxiety in the headquarters of the IMF and the World Bank. China, above all, because (...)
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