Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BRITO Gabriel, GENRO Luciana, NADER Valéria
This interview with Luciana Genro, presidential candidate of the PSOL, was first published in Correio da Cidadania, 30 August, 2014. It was conducted by Gabriel Brito and Valeria Nader.
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Gabriel Brito and Valeria Nader: What is your view on the present political (…)
, by MACHADO João
On July 8, 2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, one of the principal militants of the Christian socialist left in Brazil, died in Sao Paulo at the age of 84.
From a wealthy background, Plinio started his militancy with the Catholic University Youth (JUC). A lawyer by profession, before the military (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter was strutting like a rooster over the weekend about the absence of mass protests during Brazil’s World Cup. “Where is all this social unrest?” he asked in mocking snark that, along with bribery and corruption, has become his trademark. Then Blatter waxed rhapsodic about (…)
, by Da SILVA Givanildo Manoel
I’ve been a militant for 32 years and started my activism during the re-democratization. I lived through many atrocities that period, primarily as a result of police violence, when the terrible ROTA (a group of the Military Police – an abbreviation for “Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar”) (…)
, by Pink News
Thousands of protesters marched through Rio De Janeiro on Saturday to mark the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
Demonstrators strode past the Copacabana beach just hours before Brazil’s knockout game with Chile.
There have been frequent protests in Brazil against the amount of money (…)
, by DUFFY Nick, LO Joe, RHODEN-PAUL André
Thousands of protesters marched through Rio De Janeiro on Saturday to mark the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
Demonstrators strode past the Copacabana beach just hours before Brazil’s knockout game with Chile.
There have been frequent protests in Brazil against the amount of money (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
When I was in Brazil for those first days of the World Cup, I was—with many other journalists—tear gassed by military police. I saw sleek, urban-outfitted tanks in the streets and I felt concussion grenades send subsonic shrapnel crashing into my eardrums. I didn’t see the drones flying (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
A thirteen-year-old boy from Brazil’s Guarani tribe makes a political stand in front of 70,000 soccer fans and what he thinks is an international audience. A movement led by indigenous women in the United States beats a billion-dollar brand of the big, bad NFL . These two stories share more than (…)
, by Survival
Indigenous boy protests on pitch during World Cup opening ceremony 16 June 2014
One of the three Brazilian children who released white doves during the World Cup opening ceremony used the occasion to demand recognition of Indian land rights – but his protest was censored by FIFA.
Immediately (…)
, by MACHADO João, SILVA Fernando (Tostão)
Fernando Silva is at present the general secretary of the PSOL and a member of the National Coordination of Insurgência (a current within the PSOL). This interview with João Machado was first published in the newspaper of the NPA in France, l’Anticapitaliste .
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João (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Fifty years after the army staged a coup on 2 April 1964 and overthrew President Joao Goulart, there can be no doubt about the active support provided by the US government, the World Bank and the IMF. On 2 April 2014, a US NGO, the National Security Archive (NSA!) publicized an impressive amount (…)
, by MST (Brazil)
Opening of the 6th Congress recalls 30 years of MST’s history
VIth MST Congress - 10 to 14 of February, 2014
(February 10) This is a history that is too large to fit in a book, unless this book could be as large as actors who know how to make history. The pages of this book are huge, and (…)
, by Insurgência
On Friday 25 October, teachers in the State of Rio de Janeiro went back to work after 78 days on strike, and with a growing solidarity movement behind them. The local education authorities had agreed to a pay rise of 15%, the payment of strike days lost and a number of other benefits. One day (…)
, by MACHADO João
Between 13 and 30 June, Brazil experienced its biggest demonstrations in 30 years. In more than 400 towns and cities, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in daily demonstrations. On at least two days – 17th and 20th – well over a million people protested across the country. (On (…)
, by LARRABURE Manuel
Introduction: The Limits of a Good Idea
It started as a good idea. Rather than taking the path of the old Latin American left, in the form of the guerrilla movement, or the Stalinist party, Brazil’s Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), aided by strong union and social movements, (…)
, by CONNERY Michael, SANTAELLA Rodrigo
Late last month, massive demonstrations erupted across Brazil, initially in response to increases in public transit fares. We spoke with Brazilian activist Rodrigo Santaella, an organizer with the Socialism and Freedom Party and a member of the revolutionary current Enlace about what’s behind (…)
, by MEDEIROS Tárzia
The reconstruction of the socialist left in Brazil has made an important step forward. On 7 July, still in the heat of the recent demonstrations that swept the country, about one hundred and sixty delegates attended the Conference which approved the unification between three currents Colectivo (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan, SANTAELLA Rodrigo
[Mass protests have been taking place in all the major cities of Brazil for the past week, beginning with a demand to reduce bus fares and expanding into a mass movement that demands improvements in all public services, health, education, and working peoples’ rights. While initiated in many (…)
, by LEVY Charmain
The recent series of massive protests across Brazil have taken everyone – even the instigating group, the Movimento do Passe Livre (MPL) – by surprise. Some international lefties and political analysts have repeated what mainstream Brazilian journalist have claimed to be the most important (…)
, by MACHADO João
Juan Tortosa– From Europe the protests are hard to understand, since, aside from the higher public transport prices, isn’t it the case that there is today an economic and social situation in Brazil in full development? What do you think? Is this a manifestation of the middle-class that does not (…)
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