Fri Mar 31, 2023
March 31, 2023

Brazil

Five Years Without Marielle: Mobilizations in the Streets to Guarantee That Those Responsible for Her Murder Will Be Punished 

March 19, 2023 March 14 marked the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. And we are nowhere close to knowing who ordered...

Bolsonarism expresses the decadence of Brazilian capitalism

The sooner the Brazilian working class understands that Bolsonaro is not a historical accident...

“Progressive governments”: A not-so-pink new wave

The cycle of electoral victories of so-called progressive parties, which had already brought Gabriel...

Brazil | Mobilize in the streets against the Bolsonarist blockades

We call on the PT, the central organizations, unions and social movements to mobilize...

Brazil | We defeated Bolsonaro at the ballot box! Now, the next challenges for the working class

By the National Leadership of the Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (PSTU) Lula has won...

Brazil | We defeated Bolsonaro at the ballot box! Now, the next challenges for the working class

By the National Leadership of the Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (PSTU) Lula has won the Brazilian presidential elections in the second round. All over...

Why does the PSTU want to expropriate the billionaires?

The PSTU's programme in the national elections proposes the expropriation of the fortunes and properties of billionaires and of the 100 biggest companies in...

Brazil | To defeat Bolsonaro in the elections, PSTU calls for a critical vote for Lula

Originally published at https://www.pstu.org.br We thank you for the votes for Vera and for the candidacies of the PSTU and the Socialist and Revolutionary Pole...

Brazil | Lula’s program: neoliberalism or developmentalism?

The PT speaks of "adopting a national strategy of fair, solidarity-based, sustainable, sovereign and creative development, seeking to overcome the neoliberal model that led...

Brazil | The Lula-Alckmin ticket is a bitter pill for workers

Faced with the current Bolsonaro government which imposes hunger, genocide and misery, it is natural that workers want to vote for anyone who will...

Brazil | Confronting coup terrorism with mobilization and self-defense

It is necessary to respond swiftly in the face of the invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto...

Contrary to Revolutionary Marxism, Stalinism Has Always Treated LGBTQI+ People as “Sick”

Originally Published: 2/2/2023 By: The National LGBTI Secretariat of the PSTU-B On January 29, "National Trans and Travesti Visibility Day," the Popular Unity for Socialism, UP,...

Brazil | An interview with Brazilian PSTU leader Vera Lucia

Vera was the first Black woman to stand for president (2018 and 2022), a candidate of the PSTU in 2018, and of the PSTU...

Brazil | Deforestation of the Amazon Grew 59.5% During the Four Years of Bolsonaro’s Government

Data released on November 30, 2022 by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows that the Amazon continues to be deforested during the...

On Brazil’s “Trans Visibility Day,” Popular Unity (UP) Defends Transphobic Stance on Gender Identity

Originally Published: 2/2/2023 By: The National LGBTI Secretariat of the PSTU-B On January 29, "National Trans Visibility Day" in Brazil was marked by marches, struggles, and...

Brazil | Again on the debate of the Socialist and Revolutionary Pole

Recently an article signed by the CST, the MRT, and by comrades Plínio de Arruda Sampaio and Silvio Sinedino was published, which polemicizes with...

Brazil | The Lula-Alckmin Government is sworn in. Now what?

The inauguration ceremony of the new government attempted to bring together the most marginalized sectors of society. In the cowardly absence of Bolsonaro, who...

Brazil | Against Bolsonaro, the path of class conciliation is a dead end

At the beginning of June, the Bolsonaro government announced another change in the leadership of Petrobras, the majority state-owned oil and gas company. It...

Brazil | Why an electoral front with the Communist Party is not possible

The upcoming presidential election in Brazil is polarized between the two candidates Lula and Bolsonaro. The pre-candidacy of Vera, a black worker and socialist,...