Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Brazil Popular Front, MST (Brazil)
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”. (…)
, by MES
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 (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
The majority of the members of Brazil’s Congress are under investigation or facing charges. Of course the Olympics are corrupt.
For months, the disconnect in Brazil has been stunning. High-profile judicial inquiries into government corruption have implicated the nation’s most powerful (…)
, by MACHADO João
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 (…)
, by MACHADO João, MEDEIROS Tárzia
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 (…)
, by Brazil Popular Front, People Without Fear Front
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 (…)
, by HOELLE Jeffrey, RICHARDS Peter
Brazil’s thriving soy industry threatens its forests and global climate targets Brazil’s economy is teetering on the edge of collapse. The country’s political regime has been rocked by recent corruption scandals , and impeachment proceedings are encircling the nation’s leaders. And yet things (…)
, by LOUÇA Francisco
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 (…)
, by MACHADO João, WHITAKER Béatrice
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 (…)
, by STEDILE João Pedro
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 (…)
, by ANDERSON Perry
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 (…)
, by MST (Brazil)
1. The nature of the crisis we are going through
The Brazilian political crisis gained momentum and speed in recent weeks. Every day we see complaints, accusations, threats and assumptions about the outcome of this crisis. The incitements of hatred and violence from the right are increasing (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
After the arrest of Saleh Abdeslam on March 18, or his suspected involvement in the attacks in Paris in 2015, the Belgian authorities were crowing about their victory. "We’ve got him!” A few days later the Daesh criminals struck in the heart of Brussels and in Zaventem at Brussels airport. (…)
, by PURDY Sean
Five points on the political crisis in Brazil — and what it means for the Left.
On March 4, Brazilians awoke to the news that ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had been forcibly detained and questioned in relation to the corruption scandal embroiling the state petroleum company, (…)
, by STEDILE João Pedro
Peasants Movement, João Pedro Stedile, is outraged by the development of the Lava Jato investigation. We interviewed him to talk about the detention of the former President of Brazil.
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What is going on?
João Pedro Sterile – The operation of the Federal Police, which last (…)
, by Insurgência
On Friday 13 March and Sunday 15 March, Brazil saw two mass mobilizations across the country. Over a million people took to the streets. The first was called by the governing Workers’ Party (PT) and its supporters to counter the second, organized by a number of right-wing forces seeking to take (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable 16 years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed revolutionary (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable sixteen years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed revolutionary (…)
, by BORON Atilio A.
Dilma’s victory was distressing and difficult in yesterday’s run-off, the closest ever in Brazilian history, according to several newspapers on their front pages. In the 2006 runoff Lula defeated the candidate of the PSDB, Geraldo Alckmin, by more than twenty points: 61 to 39 percent. In 2010 (…)
, by FUENTES Federico
In the end, it is hard to find any issue on which the “anti-extractivist” Marina can be said to be to the left of the PT, even regarding environmental concerns.
A fortnight out from Brazil’s October 5 national elections, the big news has been the significant surge in support for Marina Silva, (…)
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