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Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement (MES), speaks to LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s Federico Fuentes about Putin’s war, solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s peace proposal. Dutra also discusses the twin (...)
The Worker’s Party knew weeks ago that Congress would undercut the environmental area. But not only did the party abandon ministers. It also condoned changes that make the organizational structure of Lula’s administration look similar to Bolsonaro’s
Only a few days after the close of the Free (...)
In an open letter to “Le Monde”, the economist and former green MEP Alain Lipietz questions the President of Brazil on his position regarding the war in Ukraine and invites him not to fight the wrong battle.
Mr. President Lula, dear comrade,
We met in 1984 at the headquarters of the metal (...)
Lula and the PT have structured the new government by further expanding the democratic front that won the elections, incorporating parts of the traditional oligarchies of the Centrão [1] After managing to move to an offensive stance on Bolsonarism, worn down by the January putsch and by (...)
The National Leadership of the PSOL approved on the 15th, among other issues, a first critical position on the fiscal framework proposal presented by Haddad and Tebet to the press.
Despite possible changes to the final text the matter was formally brought before the Brazilian National (...)
It was after four years of neo-fascist far-right government that the former metallurgist was re-elected as president of Brazil for his third term. If the hopes are high, the challenges are just as high.
Indeed, Lula’s return is accompanied by three major challenges: to bring concrete (...)
A decisive democratic struggle has opened against impunity, violence, disregard for life, the multiplication of private militias and the militarization of society. The focus of this struggle is the criminal accountability of [former President Jair] Bolsonaro and his associates for the coup they (...)
The actions of 8 January 2023 mimic those of the horde of US neo-fascists two years later, almost like the same script. The invasion of thousands of Bolsonarists into the premises of the National Congress, the Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto Palace, broadcast live on national TV network, (...)
To the extent that history repeats itself, it does so in spiral fashion, rather than exactly, and more often as tragedy than farce. Yesterday in Brasília, when a bolsonarista mob briefly invaded the Praça dos Três Poderes and vandalised Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace (...)
The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.
Bolsonarism continues to act with impunity, promoting this Sunday a kind of “Capitol invasion ” in Brazilian way. The leniency of the security forces of the Federal (...)
The International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles supports and shares this statement of the CSP Conlutas.
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We repudiate the connivance of the federal district government and the police forces with the coup actions
On January 8th, in Brasilia, thousands of (...)
Lula’s victory raises many hopes, despite the alliances made too early with a motley array of forces, including those who helped to topple Dilma Roussef in 2016, and those who welcomed Lula’s April 2018 jail sentence.
In the final moments, Lula and his team finally came out of their offices and (...)
In a few weeks [article dated 20 September 2022], Brazil will hold its ninth presidential election since the end of the military dictatorship. For the first time since 1988, there is a great risk that the results of the elections will not be heard and respected.
For several years, President (...)
With his heart in his mouth and with 67% of the votes counted, Lula managed to overtake Bolsonaro, thus putting on track a victory which ended with a narrow margin of one and a half percentage points or a difference of just over two million votes. This is a very important popular victory for (...)
Lula da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidential elections against Jair Bolsonaro on October 30 (51-49%). Yet, Bolsonarismo—the far-right ideology punctuated by fascist traits and enthusiastically supported by the higher ranks of the Armed Forces—continues as strong as ever. The left won (...)
Dave Kellaway gives a first reaction to Lula’s defeat of far right Bolsonaro.
Love defeats hatred! Democracy defeats Fascism! Viva – let’s celebrate
A TWEET FROM PSOL (PARTY OF SOCIALISM AND LIBERTY) MEMBERS. PSOL IS A RADICAL-LEFT PARTY THAT BACKED LULA’S CANDIDACY.
When an indigenous child is (...)
A new lease of life for the Brazilian left, which will have to make up for lost time, because there will be no second chance.
On 30 October 2022, at the 45th minute of the second half, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was once again elected President of the Republic of Brazil, after weeks of (...)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva presents the second round as a choice between democracy and the abyss. He has won the support of two of the most important candidates from the first round and a number of traditional political leaders. Now he seeks to mobilise the support from below that he needs to (...)
On the result of the first round of the presidential election, and the tasks of socialists until the second round of voting on 30th October.
The left candidate Lula da Silva won the first round with 48.4% of the vote (57,259,504 votes) against 43.2% for his right-wing opponent Jair Bolsonaro (...)
It seems likely that Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva will eventually oust the president. Even if he does, a turbulent time in office awaits
The first lesson from Brazil’s election on Sunday is that public opinion surveys severely misfired. Just a few days before the contest, many reported a 15% lead (...)
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