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[VIDEO] Repression of Anti-Coup Protests 31/8/2016

Military Police repression of Anti-Coup protest in São Paulo, 31/8/2016 [qpp]

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Brasil’s Senate and the Legacy of Dictatorship

On May 25 leaders of the Koch brothers-associated organization Movimento Brasil Livre met with Senator Alvaro Dias from the PSDB party to talk about their goal of impeaching president Dilma Rouseff. Some found it ironic that a group that calls itself “the Free Brasil Movement” met with a former military dictatorship official to talk about plans […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY POLITICS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS UNDERSTANDING BRASIL

MST: “There won’t be a Coup without resistance.”

The Brazilian organized or “popular” left is made up of labour unions, poor people’s social  movements, women’s and Afro-Brasilian movements, religious base organizations and the political parties that they feel best represent them within the confines of a capitalist system. As the corrupt Brazilian media and the conservative  middle class, unhappy with last years election results […]