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March 29, 2024

Brazil

Marielle and Anderson, Presente! Arrest of Masterminds was a Breakthrough, but Investigations Must Continue

By Opinão Socialista The arrest of the masterminds behind the murder of Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes, six long years after the crime, is a significant step forward in getting...

Brazil: No Amnesty, Fight the Coup Plotters and Return the Far Right to the Dustbin of History

Operation Tempus Veritatis, launched by the Federal Police on Thursday, February 8 as part...

January 8 in Brazil: Confronting the Coup Plotters and the Far-Right with a Politics of Class Independence

Monday, January 8, marked exactly one year since the coup attempt orchestrated by the...

Brazil: On the Transport Strike in São Paulo

On November 28, São Paulo went on strike against the privatizations happening under the...

Dilma’s first six months. There’s nothing to celebrate but the struggles.

Dilma's Rousseff government has recently reached its sixth month. Two important and contradictory features stand out. On one hand a number of strikes...

Teacher Amanda Gurgel refuses PNBE19º Award

Hi, Next Monday, the Corporate Foundation PNBE will deliver the award "2011 Most Valued Brazilian Citizens”. The jury has chosen me as one...

“We have to turn this affliction into action”

Teacher Amanda Gurgel’s blunt speech in a video posted in YouTube went viral and turned to be a phenomenon in social networks, in...

Brazilian president Dilma starts airports privatization

Concession Agreement of the airports to private companies has been announced by the government. Dilma’s government has announced the beginning of the privatization process...

Conlutas – Arab Revolution full support to the people

With an overwhelming strength, crowds took to the streets in several Arab countries to protest against their Governments. First it was Tunisia, where...

A wave of homophobia and the organization of resistance

The aggression against our comrade Guilherme (militant at the Secretariat of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender of PSTU and GT-GLBT of CSP-Conlutas)...

What’s left after Obama’s visit to Brazil?

What's left after Obama’s visit to Brazil? U.S. president leaves the country leaving behind trade agreements, promises of oil supplies, humiliation, and 13 political...

Brazil welcomes Obama with 13 political prisoners

The arrival of Barack Obama in Brazil was marked by the illegal (and political) arrest of 13 Brazilian citizens who were protesting against...

Dilma won … what now?

Dilma Rousseff was elected president. This shows the weight of Lula’s government victory and of the government coalition he led.  The government increased its...

The farce of the pacification of Rio de Janeiro State

Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing a civil war, a state of siege, which exposes the demagogy and incompetence of the...

The church crisis and the criminalization of abortion

All of a sudden, the pulpit turned into a political platform and the Christian followers who sought the churches to pray for the...

How to fight against the Rightist in the Second Term? Voting Null

Lula's government got a partial victory in the first term of the 2010 elections. As in the elections of Lula in 2002 and...

CONCLAT: the reasons for the split

The National Congress of the Working Class (CONCLAT) in Brazil has generated great expectations in sectors of the combative and classist workers vanguard,...

Conlutas notes on the course of the congresses of Conlutas and Conclat

The CONCLAT (National Congress of the Working Class – from initials in Portuguese) gathered 4,000 participants, 3,180 of them certifying their representation of the...