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Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff: It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning
Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder and …
On Brazil’s Political Crisis
It’s been some time since I last waded into the political unrest in Brazil, in part because, in the first few months of the …
Jean Wyllys: Where is Journalism?
The news coverage of the demonstrations last Sunday and Friday in much of the media, especially Globo and Globo News, seriously confused journalism with …
Brasil’s Black Wednesday
The situation in Brasil at the time of publication is extremely complicated & fluid but to better understand it, it needs to be broken down …
13/3 Protest: Much, much, more of the same
At the March 13 Anti-Government protest, PSDB Opposition Politicians, São Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin & defeated 2014 Presidential Candidate Aécio Neves, can surely …
1964: Brasil & CIA
This article “Brasil & CIA” originally appeared in CounterSpy, April – May 1979, pp. 4-23 and has since passed into the public domain. We believe it …
The Putschism of yesterday and the Putschism of today
The argument for a moderating power “above political disputes” that could step in in the name of the people to enact regime change began …
There are times when making history is more important than commenting on it. This is one of them.
Those of you that have been following me for a while know that I often write about the need for serenity in politics. I …
Lula & The Trite Theatre Of Lava Jato
The depiction of Operation Lava Jato as an apolitical moral crusade, a new essentialist myth and a natural phase in the country’s development, is …
June 2013: A Retrospective
“Brazil: Social Change from Import-Substitution to Neoliberalism and the ‘Events of June’” By Alfredo Saad Filho originally published at nuvole.it Introduction [1] Large demonstrations …
