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The Unified Workers‘ Central (Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT) of Brazil, one of the world’s largest trade union federations, the most important in Latin America, and the country’s most representative, in 2015 implemented gender parity in its decision making bodies at national (…)
, by DIAS Hugo , KREIN José Dari
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This paper looks at the development of the Unified Workers’ Central of Brazil (CUT) during the four consecutive PT governments, first under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and later under Dilma Rousseff (2003–2016). The authors maintain that this period – coinciding with the first one and (…)
, by MACHADO João
On Friday, August 4, the group MAIS announced its entry into PSOL. For months now, this news was expected, but it is not without its fundamental importance. It was unanimously welcomed in the PSOL.
We can say that it allows a qualitative leap forward in the difficult process of reorganizing (…)
, by MES-PSOL
Sérgio Moro convicted Lula for corruption. The judgment on this decision cannot be just legal. It’s mostly political. Legally, the process did not end. Many lawyers and jurists argue that the case of the triplex has not enough evidence for conviction. At the same time they sustain that the case (…)
, by CARVALHAES Ana C., LEITE José Correa
“You who walk, the path is the trace of your steps and nothing else: You who walk, there is no path, you make the path as you go...” Antonio Machado, Proverbios and Cantares XXIX, Campos de Castilla
The purpose of this text is not to go into detail on the dumbfounding national situation. It (…)
, by CHRETIEN Todd, JORDAO Gibran
Brazilian President Michel Temer’s conservative government is reeling in the face of an explosive corruption scandal . After a period of confusion and demoralization following the impeachment of Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff last spring, workers and students appear to have found (…)
, by DE OLIVEIRA Roberto Véras
On April 28, Brazil witnessed one of the most impressive general strikes ever. What, if anything, changed after the strike? How will the resistance to the Temer government go on?
The general strike of April 28, 2017 in Brazil took place 11 years after the last one and 100 years after the (…)
Hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations in 19 state capitals and other cities around the country. There were partial stoppages in at least 28 sectors, with workers in education and public transport, from both the private and state sectors, taking the lead. There were also occupations (…)
, by BARBARA Vanessa
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The end of the world has already arrived in Brazil.
At least that’s what people here are saying. A constitutional amendment passed by the Senate last month is being called “the end of the world” amendment by its opponents . Why? Because the consequences of the amendment (…)
, by CARLESS Will
From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident “Carmina Burana.”
It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be (…)
, by Insurgência
For most of the time, Rousseff’s impeachment was an act of the gangster Eduardo Cunha, supported by former allies of the PT government, that set up an institutional coup a la Honduras and Paraguay. Also in these little brother countries in Latin America, elected governments were dismissed by (…)
, by BOYKOFF Jules
It might not be captured on primetime Olympic coverage, but Brazilians are welcoming the Games with mass protest.
When Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer announced the opening of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics on Friday, he was met with boos. Speaking as fast as a voiceover at the end of a (…)
, by MARRA Agnese
The holiday period and the Olympic Games, which started on Friday August 5, have been a contributory factor to Brazilians not taking to the streets in large numbers to contest or support the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Fatigue after more than a year of demonstrations, combined with the (…)
, by Reuters
Relay involving mayor is forced to divert with police using pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a path through protests.
Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, two days before South (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
The disaster in Brazil is an extreme version of what happens when the International Olympic Committee comes to town.
There’s an old expression in Brazil: “it is for the English to see.” This means the country’s elites will construct, when necessary, a veneer for Global North outsiders. This (…)
, by TALBOT Adam
From police killings to forced evictions and environmental destruction; the Olympic Games in Rio are cause for an alphabet soup of misery and suffering.
A is for Anti-terrorism laws that were implemented prior to the Games. This means that political protest against the Olympics (and protest (…)
, by BOYKOFF Jules
The Rio Olympics are taking to the extreme the overblown promises and neoliberal development now typical of the games.
The 2016 Rio Olympics start next month, and the lead-up is getting downright gruesome. A couple weeks ago, mutilated body parts washed up on Copacabana Beach, just meters (…)
, by WEISSMAN Suzi, ZAHLUT BASTOS Pedro Paulo
Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos interviewed by Suzi Weissman.
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Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Beneath the Surface, I’m Suzi Weissman. I’m extremely pleased to have Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos back with us. He’s in Campinas, Brazil, that’s not too far from São Paulo; it’s the university (…)
, by WMW
The entire world is currently watching the murder of democracy and justice in Brazil with rage and sadness.
On 17th April the impeachment voting against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was live broadcasted from the Parliament.. Using arguments such as the development, faith and family (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Let’s call a spade a spade. What has just happened in Brazil, with the dismissal of the elected president, Dilma Rousseff, is a coup. A coup which is pseudo-legal, “constitutional”, “institutional”, parliamentary, anything you want, but a coup all the same
Parliamentarians – deputies and (…)
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