To his political adversaries and their supporters, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva is the chief of the biggest crime organisation in human history. To them, da Silva is a criminal mastermind so sophisticated that his wrongdoing cannot be detected, even by the most valiant of investigators. Always one step ahead, Lula leaves […]
As protests grow in solidarity with Lula, Brasil’s biggest Left parties – PT, along with PDT, PSoL and PCdoB have launched a joint statement, denouncing what they say and many others insist is the political persecution of the former President and leading 2018 candidate. Note of Repudiation on the Imprisonment of ex-President Lula The imprisonment of […]
Speech at SOAS, University of London, April 12, 2018 Transcribed and edited for readability by Brasil Wire Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was the most influential trade union leader in Brazil in the 1970s and the most important leader of what was known as the new unions, that emerged under the military dictatorship, centered on […]
By Immanuel Wallerstein. Lula Arrested: How Successful a Coup? On April 7, 2018 in Brazil Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva was arrested and taken to prison in Curitiba to begin a twelve-year sentence. He was Brazil’s president from January 2003 to January 2011. He was so popular that when he left office in 2011, he […]
By Fernando horta. There is no government in the World that admits that it has political prisoners. They all are – and were – arrested for “crimes” or “threats” and given sentences that the governments say are the result of a “due process” in which all of the “institutions are functioning”. It has been this […]
Protests and vigils have been taking place across Brasil and in front of embassies worldwide demanding freedom for ex-President Lula. On the morning of April 11th, groups of social movement and union activists shut down highways with burning tires across Brasil, as crowds mobilized for protests in cities across the country and around the world […]
On Saturday night a video started circulating around the social media of an airplane control panel with on-board conversation in which one of the passengers, presumably a Federal Police agent, threatened to “throw this garbage out the window” and to “get rid of him and never come back”. Today the Brazilian Airforce confirmed that the conversation […]
Police fire rubber bullets at unarmed protesters in Curitiba. At least 10 injured. According to protesters, the violent acts committed by the Paraná Military Police started after an unidentified man shook the entrance gate of the Federal Police building. Curitiba. Thousands of workers who came to show solidarity with Ex-President Lula were attacked with “moral […]
“In 1979, this union staged one of the most extraordinary strikes and we got a deal with the auto industry that was maybe the best we could get. I had a factory committee with 300 workers. The deal was good and I decided to take the deal to a vote in a union meeting. I […]
Facing politically-motivated imprisonment, former President and leading 2018 candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shared this message to Brazil. My Friends, I’ve thought a lot about the paths that our lives take. The future, after all, does not seem to be such a distant place, does it? It’s not that my life has been easy… Far from […]