Brazil

By Pablo Biondi (Unified Socialist Workers’ Party (PSTU – Brazil) On July 30, the U.S. government announced financial sanctions against Minister Alexandre de Moraes, invoking the Magnitsky Act. Enacted during the Obama administration, the Magnitsky Act is designed to punish foreign individuals accused of human rights violations and corruption. The law allows for sanctions, such […]

— Unified Socialist Workers’ Party of Brazil (PSTU) On Wednesday, May 30, Donald Trump, the leader of the world’s most important imperialist power, issued a decree imposing a 50% tax on Brazilian exports as promised. However, the decree included 694 exemptions, particularly for Embraer, orange juice, and other products on which the U.S. economy depends […]

By Érika Andreassy (PSTU – Brazil) It is common to hear the government and even activist sectors claim that Lula is a well-intentioned president who wants to create a government for the poor but whose hands are tied by Congress and the “Centrão,” (1) and who is therefore being “held hostage” by the balance of […]

By PSTU, Brazil Brazil is under direct attack from imperialism. Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs on Brazilian exports constitutes a serious violation of our sovereignty and national independence. It is more than an economic issue; it is unacceptable political interference. Trump’s justification includes defending former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under investigation for an attempted […]

By the Unified Socialist Workers’ Party – Brazil On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 9, the president of the world’s leading imperialist power, Donald Trump, announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian products. However, unlike Trump’s tariff war against the rest of the world, the main argument used by the leader of imperialism was his defense […]

It is with great sadness that we are reporting the passing of our colleague, comrade, and member of the IWL leadership, Américo Astuto. He suffered a heart attack at the São Paulo bus station on March 19, where he was catching a bus to Campinas. He was rescued by an emergency team, resuscitated and taken […]

With the exhaustion of the New Republic, the country’s decline, the global economic crisis and the rise of the far right, the PSOL has returned to the arms of the PT. By Mariucha Fontana The decline in the popularity of the Lula government has generated various debates and a crisis in the left that supports […]

By Wilson Honório da Silva To begin with, it must be said that, for various reasons, this is one of those texts that “took on a life of its own,” having already been written, rewritten, and published many times since November. To be writing about it again now obviously has to do with Fernanda Torres […]

On November 18 and 19, Brazil will host the G20 summit of the heads of state and government in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This is a meeting in which the main imperialist countries of the world and their partners participate. “Opinião” spoke with Herbert Claros, of the International Secretariat of CSP-Conlutas, who discussed […]

While in New York to speak at the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, President Lula met with the global president of the British multinational oil company Shell, Wael Sawan, and with the president of Shell Brazil, Cristiano Pinto. By Jeferson Choma In his UN speech, Lula spoke about wars and also about […]

By Socialist Opinion, PSTU Brazil After 335 years, the Tupinambá mantle, a sacred object of Brazilian indigenous culture, taken from here by the French colonizers and preserved in Europe for centuries, was officially returned to Brazil. But at the celebration, attended by Indigenous Peoples Minister Sonia Guajajara and President Lula, Yakuy Tupinambá, an elder and […]

CSP-Conlutas was present at the launching event, which took place in Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro), on Saturday, September 14. By CSP-Conlutas, Brazil Different social movements and working class organizations, among them CSP-Conlutas, gathered on Saturday, September 14 for the launching of the Peoples’ Summit in front of the G20. The event was held in Rio […]

By Jeferson Choma The capital São Paulo and a large part of the country’s cities are living under a blanket of smoke. Earlier this week, the capital of São Paulo became the most polluted metropolis in the world. But it inherited this title from cities in the western Amazon, which last month was the most […]

Brazil is in flames. Fires have spread throughout most of the country, especially in the Amazon region. Normally the region’s fire season occurs between June and October, but now farmers, miners and land grabbers are cutting down the forest and preparing to burn it all year round. By Jeferson Choma – PSTU (Brazil) According to […]

Only working men and women know how difficult it is to live in Brazil’s cities. There is a lack of hospitals, beds and doctors. The schools suffer, abandoned to their fate, with poorly paid teachers, while those in power advance in their plan to militarize schools, which worsens education and increases the oppression of students, […]

Wilson Honório da Silva, of the PSTU’s National Education Secretariat On August 21, 2024, 84 years after his assassination, we celebrated the life and legacy of Leon Trotsky. The synthesis of his life and work is the unrelenting struggle against capitalist society, the rescue of the true Marxist tradition, the defense of the global and […]