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Michael Brooks Interview: Lula, solidarity and the antifascist struggle

Host of the Michael Brooks Show and Majority Report co-host talks about the challenges that lie ahead in the global fight against fascism and the fight to preserve Lula’s legacy Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show and the Majority Report, is one of the most well-informed people in the US media about Brazil […]

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Lula and democracy at the crossroads

Sooner or later, Brazil, Latin America and the World will have to choose between neoliberalism, fascism and authoritarianism on one side and real, substantive democracy on the other by Marcelo Zero Latin America is going through a deep crisis of political instability, fragilization of democratic institutions, lack of legitimacy of traditional representation systems, intense ideological […]

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Brasil’s fascist “green hens” are back

During the 1930s, Brazilian fascists, called the “Green Hens” by their opponents, beat up communists and  praised God, family and liberal economic policies. In this article Wilson Luiz Müller says they’re back.  By Wilson Luiz Müller* This is not a “Back to the Future” style science fiction story. If a Brazilian was frozen during the […]

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Fear of Lula is fear of democracy

Both the far-right and the “center” are afraid of Lula. It is not because he is a violent radical, but because he represents the possibility of real social, economic and political ascension for the common people. by Marcelo Zero Right wing extremist Steve Bannon recently said, “Lula is a great leader of the ‘globalist left’[…] […]

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Lula promises to help “free Brazil from the insanity”

Released on Friday, November 8th, after 580 days in political imprisonment in Curitiba, former President Lula posted his first video on Instagram, sending a message to his supporters. “I would like to thank you all for your solidarity from the bottom of my heart and tell you that I am free to help liberate Brazil […]

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Supreme Court renders Lula imprisonment illegal

Last night (11/8/2019) the Brazilian Supreme Court upheld the principal of innocent until proven guilty from the 1988 Constitution and ruled that it is illegal to imprison defendants until their appeals process has fully played out. The decision effectively reverses a ruling from April 5, 2018. That ruling – made the day after General Vilas […]

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Justice for Lula, Peace for Brazil

On the day in which the Brazilian Supreme Court  returns to deliberations over whether it will uphold the 1988 Constitution and respect defendants’ rights to await their appeals verdicts in freedom (which they made an exception to in order to facilitate Lula’s imprisonment last year), a group of 14 of Brazil’s top artists and intellectuals […]

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Court blocks political imprisonment of Dilma Rousseff

Federal Police agent who issued arrest warrant for Rousseff is a subordinate and close ally of disgraced Justice Minister Sérgio Moro. The move was blocked by the Attorney General’s Office and the Supreme Court. On November 5, Brazilian federal police agent Guidali Amaral, a close ally of the corrupt former judge and current Justice Minister Sérgio […]

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Celso Amorim: Argentina’s change will spread across the continent

In an interview in Buenos Aires with journalist Mario Vitor Santos, the former Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Celso Amorim said that it is an important convergence of events that Alberto Fernandez’ victory in the Argentine presidential race would fall on Lula’s birthday. “Neoliberalism is being defeated because it does not correspond with the desire of […]

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Brazil’s alternative media: usually right, always ignored

Brasil Wire correctly called the 2016 Coup, corruption in the Lava Jato investigation and fraudulent rise of Bolsonaro in real time because we read and respect Brazil’s vibrant and sophisticated alternative media. Why do northern commercial journalists systematically ignore it? My father taught me how to read the newspapers when I was 7 years old. […]