Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DUTRA Israel
For the coming year, we present five challenges that corroborate the reflections socialists make regarding the “time of urgencies”
The fading light of 2024 leads to personal and political retrospectives. The working class and activists as a whole take advantage of their scarce moments of rest (…)
, by AUDI Amanda, CORREIA Mariama, FONSECA Bruno, MUNIZ Bianca
Half of Brazilian presidents since the end of the dictatorship, almost half of the current governors of Brazilian states and a fifth of the country’s senators in office have in common the fact that they have direct ancestors who owned slaves, used slave labor or acted to contain revolts by black (…)
, by CASARÕES Guilherme
In recent months, Brazilians have closely followed the US presidential campaign. Since 2016, whatever happens in American politics seems likely to unfold in Brazil. In many ways, the American political chasm reflects Brazil’s own political polarisation.
Trump’s latest win provoked immediate (…)
, by DUTRA Israel, ROBAINA Roberto
The fires and air pollution across the country demonstrate the insufficiency of government measures and demand popular mobilization for the climate emergency
The worst week in the country’s climate history. Wildfires, extremely high temperatures, terrible air quality. As Pedro Serrano pointed (…)
, by PHILLIPS Tom
Brazilians shocked to find the man charged with investigating the city councillor’s assassination was one of its alleged engineers
The former head of the Rio civil police, Rivaldo Barbosa, left, is escorted by a police officer upon arrival at the federal police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (…)
, by FUENTES Federico
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters at the African Union summit in Ethiopia on February 18.
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in (…)
, by CARVALHAES Ana C., LARRACHE Antoine
In 20 October 2022, Lula da Silva was elected President of the Republic of Brazil for the third time, beating far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro by a narrow margin. This victory by the broad democratic front around Lula, as well as the campaign that preceded it, is giving rise to great debate (…)
, by DUTRA Israel, FUENTES Federico
Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement (MES), speaks to LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s Federico Fuentes about Putin’s war, solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s peace proposal. Dutra also discusses the (…)
, by MARTINS Rafael Moro
The Worker’s Party knew weeks ago that Congress would undercut the environmental area. But not only did the party abandon ministers. It also condoned changes that make the organizational structure of Lula’s administration look similar to Bolsonaro’s
Only a few days after the close of the Free (…)
, by LIPIETZ Alain
In an open letter to “Le Monde”, the economist and former green MEP Alain Lipietz questions the President of Brazil on his position regarding the war in Ukraine and invites him not to fight the wrong battle.
Mr. President Lula, dear comrade,
We met in 1984 at the headquarters of the metal (…)
, par CARVALHAES Ana C., LEITE José Correa
Lula and the PT have structured the new government by further expanding the democratic front that won the elections, incorporating parts of the traditional oligarchies of the Centrão [1] After managing to move to an offensive stance on Bolsonarism, worn down by the January putsch and by (…)
, by CARVALHO Nadja, CAVALCANTE Deborah , RAMOS Marcelo
The National Leadership of the PSOL approved on the 15th, among other issues, a first critical position on the fiscal framework proposal presented by Haddad and Tebet to the press.
Despite possible changes to the final text the matter was formally brought before the Brazilian National (…)
, by LIMA Gabriella
It was after four years of neo-fascist far-right government that the former metallurgist was re-elected as president of Brazil for his third term. If the hopes are high, the challenges are just as high.
Indeed, Lula’s return is accompanied by three major challenges: to bring concrete (…)
, by LEITE José Correa
A decisive democratic struggle has opened against impunity, violence, disregard for life, the multiplication of private militias and the militarization of society. The focus of this struggle is the criminal accountability of [former President Jair] Bolsonaro and his associates for the coup they (…)
, by DUTRA Israel
The actions of 8 January 2023 mimic those of the horde of US neo-fascists two years later, almost like the same script. The invasion of thousands of Bolsonarists into the premises of the National Congress, the Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto Palace, broadcast live on national TV network, (…)
, by HYLTON Forrest
To the extent that history repeats itself, it does so in spiral fashion, rather than exactly, and more often as tragedy than farce. Yesterday in Brasília, when a bolsonarista mob briefly invaded the Praça dos Três Poderes and vandalised Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace (…)
, by PSOL
The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.
Bolsonarism continues to act with impunity, promoting this Sunday a kind of “Capitol invasion ” in Brazilian way. The leniency of the security forces of the Federal (…)
, by CSP-Conlutas, International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
The International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles supports and shares this statement of the CSP Conlutas.
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We repudiate the connivance of the federal district government and the police forces with the coup actions
On January 8th, in Brasilia, thousands of (…)
, by FONTES Virginia
Lula’s victory raises many hopes, despite the alliances made too early with a motley array of forces, including those who helped to topple Dilma Roussef in 2016, and those who welcomed Lula’s April 2018 jail sentence.
In the final moments, Lula and his team finally came out of their offices (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
In a few weeks [article dated 20 September 2022], Brazil will hold its ninth presidential election since the end of the military dictatorship. For the first time since 1988, there is a great risk that the results of the elections will not be heard and respected.
For several years, President (…)
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