Two competing narratives on Brazil: one says Dilma Rousseff was deposed in a procedural Coup d’état and Lula’s imprisonment is to stop him becoming President again. The other says that all of the above is totally legit. One of these narratives has Wall Street and Big Oil right behind it. Can you guess which? Coup-Denial […]
In 1964, after President Jango Goulart announced he was going to implement agrarian reform, the US Government helped install a Military Coup in Brazil. In 1967, Carlos Marighella, grandson of a slave and life long revolutionary who had been living underground for years, was kicked out of the communist party for complaining of its inertia. […]
August 17th 2018 – The United Nations Human Rights Commission officially requested the Brazilian government to allow Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 2018 presidential front-runner, to run for President and access the media and all members of his political party while being kept as prisoner. The decision reflects a growing concern in the international community that […]
At a moment in which history puts us to the test we ask: what side are you on? What would we do with our lives if we didn’t march and fight for a better world for everyone? On August 10th, thousands of members of the Landless Rural Workers Movement from all 26 Brazilian states began a 5 day […]
PSOL Presidential Candidate Guilherme Boulos opened the first televised Presidential debate, on 9th August on the Band Network, with a greeting for former President Lula, and denunciation of both his controversial absence and politically motivated imprisonment in Curitiba. Lula’s running mates Fernando Haddad and Manuela D’Ávila were also refused participation in the broadcast, instead holding a “parallel” debate […]
By Diego Sartorato. Original article at Brasil de Fato. Republished with permission. Targeted by the Michel Temer administration, Brazil’s sovereignty is the key topic of the debate about the political and economic paths the country should take. And sovereignty is also highlighted in the “Hunger strike for justice in the Supreme Court” manifesto released by activists […]
Faced with continuation of Temer’s Post-Coup programme of extreme austerity, discarded rights and bargain sell-off of the country’s resources, be it under right-winger Geraldo Alckmin or actual fascist Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian left were caught for months under the cloud of uncertainty surrounding Lula’s candidacy, despite him streets ahead in all polls. Finally they have […]
For the past two years, Lula has been the target of mainstream media attacks and persecuted by politically motivated parts of the judiciary. He has been denied the presumption of innocence and his right to a fair trial and appeals. The AFL-CIO’s Executive Council recently issued a statement in solidarity with Luiz Inácio Lula da […]
Brasília. On July 31, as a group of 6 hunger strikers held a press conference in front of the Brazilian Supreme Court, a group of security guards came up and started pushing activists and journalists. A video that is circulating in the social media shows Gegê, 68, national leader of the CMP, being knocked over […]
Unable to mobilize the majority in their favor, the conservative strategy is to demobilize the most critical voters so that they protest by casting a blank ballot or abstention. By Marcio Pochmann* The 2018 general election – the 8th since the return to democracy in 1989 – is limited by an important contradiction. Despite its […]