Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PSOL
IN THE 2ND ROUND THE PSOL CALLS FOR A VOTE FOR HADDAD AND MANUELA
The elections in the first round ended up maintaining the same scenario of instability and polarization provoked by the 2016 coup and which deepened an economic and social crisis that had already unfolded. It also deepened a (…)
, by Resistência
The far-right Jair Bolsonaro came to the verge of winning power after a strong showing in Brazil’s presidential election last weekend, but he will face the candidate of the Workers’ Party in an October 28 runoff. Below, Todd Chretien provides an analysis of the first-round result as an (…)
, by FERNANDES Sabrina, FOGEL Benjamin, HOCHULI Alex
The core of Bolsonarism is hatred of Brazil’s organized working class, which today — despite no threat of socialist revolution — is incarnated in the PT and the image of Lula.
In Brazil’s election this weekend, democracy itself is at stake. Far-right Jair Bolsonaro leads the first-round polls (…)
, by MURY SCALCO Lucia, PINHEIRO-MACHADO Rosana
What it means that a far-right fascist sympathizer is a leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election this Sunday
Jair Bolsonaro is an unavoidable name in Brazilian politics nowadays, and has been for a few years. A few days before election day on October 7, the most recent polls (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Members of the global women’s rights movement
A broad coalition of women has come together to protest the Presidential candidacy of far-right politician, Jair Bolsonaro. Organized by the parties of the left, women’s organizations, and some members of liberal parties, this coalition will march in cities across Brazil on September 29. (…)
, by Juntas
On September 29th we will take the streets worldwide to say: #EleNão #EleNunca (#NotHim , #NeverHim)!
Dear comrades,
For some years Brazil has been immersed in a deep economic, political and representative crisis. With only two weeks to the election, the trends to reject the establishment (…)
, by LOPES Marina
When police rescued Abelar Rebouças from a coffee plantation in southern Brazil, he was bone thin. The 51-year-old worked long days for a month in the hot sun, hauling 15-gallon bags of coffee beans.
His drinking water came from a ditch near a septic tank, according to government reports. When (…)
, by STEDILE João Pedro
The country needs a new project of development for the people. More subordination, submission and exploitation of the people will not be a way out for Brazil.
Brazil is going through a grave economic, political, social and environmental crisis. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of (…)
, by PHILLIPS Dom
Campaigner involved in case that could lead to legal abortion in first 12 weeks of pregnancy enters protection programme
Days before a Brazilian supreme court hearing on a move that could eventually decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a leading feminist campaigner is in (…)
, by PHILLIPS Dom
Amnesty says lack of progress over death of Franco in Rio in March shows ‘incompetence’ of Brazil’s criminal justice system
Four months after the unsolved murder of black Rio de Janeiro councillor and human rights defender Marielle Franco, Amnesty International has called for independent (…)
, by TARLAU Rebecca
In May 2017, Left politics in Brazil were pretty bleak. It was almost a year after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), whose ousting from power brought along with it an onslaught of austerity policies. The violence in the countryside against rural (…)
, by LOPES Marina
When Lazaro Rutino needs a break from hauling beef across Brazil in his truck, he swipes on his phone and is instantly connected to dozens of other truckers. Rutino, 59, is a member of eight trucker groups on WhatsApp, the messaging service that has become a staple for Brazilians of all walks of (…)
, by Amnesty International, Petition / Sign-on Letter
On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco, 38 years old, was shot to death in Rio de Janeiro, while she was returning from an event where she was offering a lecture. Anderson Pedro Gomes, 39, her driver, was also killed in the attack.
Marielle was a tireless human rights defender in Rio de Janeiro (…)
, by ARCARY Valerio, MOSQUERA Martín
Between 2002 and 2016, the Workers’ Party (PT, by its initials in Portuguese) held the presidency of Brazil for two terms under Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva and then under Dilma Rousseff before she was impeached on flimsy charges in August 2016 in what is widely considered a parliamentary coup.
Rousseff’s own vice president, Michel Temer, of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), promoted the coup and has led an aggressively neoliberal government since that (...)
, by Boulos for president in Brazil – UK committee
Manifesto from Boulos for president in Brazil – UK committee
Guilherme Boulos and Sonia Guajajara
The coup in Brazil – and the Temer government
In 2016, a parliamentary coup took place, overthrowing an elected government and giving power to sectors of even more corrupt of politicians than (…)
, by FERNANDES Sabrina, GUAJAJARA Sônia
An interview with Sônia Guajajara, an indigenous woman running for Brazil’s presidency.
518 years ago, the territory now known as Brazil was invaded by a Portuguese fleet and colonized. Many of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the land died from diseases, were killed, or enslaved. The (…)
, by DORCADIE Mathilde
Campaigns for decent work during mega sporting events in Brazil: innovative trade union strategies in the construction sector, their successes and continuation
A Case Study by Maurício Rombaldi
The hosting of both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil forced the (…)
, by CASTRO Nazaret
In 2012, measures were taken to ensure that female trade unionists would achieve parity in the biggest trade union in Brazil and Latin America, the CUT (Central Única de Trabajadores), in a country where women’s representation in parliament, for example, is amongst the lowest in the world, and (…)
, by CARINHANHA Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho
When Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, was shot to death in downtown Rio on March 14, her killing moved the world.
Protesters took to the streets in New York, Paris, Buenos Aires and elsewhere, pledging to continue Franco’s fight against racism, poverty, inequality and (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The people and organizations signing this declaration: Demand that the government and the judicial system of Brazil immediately release Luis Ignacio “Lula” Da Silva, leader of the Workers’ Party. Demand freedom and full restitution of his political rights so that he can participate in the (…)
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