The first round of the Brazilian elections leaves a question that the left should not dodge. Lula finished second against Flávio Bolsonaro, with 45.16% against 47.03%, and lost around 3.4 million votes compared to the […]
Just a few days after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s new president, following his narrow victory over the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil has been plunged into a continued political […]
In the tightest presidential election ever in Brazil, the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro was narrowly defeated by the veteran candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio da Silva, popularly known as Lula. Lula scraped […]
The Trump hearings in Washington reveal devastating details of his attempt to cling to power and carry through what amounted to a coup to overturn the US presidential elections in 2021. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, […]
As support for Bolsonaro in Brazil has rapidly declined and he faces the prospect of defeat in elections scheduled for 2022, Tony Saunois reviews ‘Securing Democracy –my fight for press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s […]
Ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s far-right government has been plunged into a deeper far-reaching political crisis. Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing president and former military officer, sacked the Foreign Minister, Ernesto Araújo, along with other […]
The Amazon rain forest in Brazil is battling massive fires. They are so extensive they can be seen from space. The Amazon has been called the ‘beating heart of the earth’ and the ‘lungs of […]
Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, recently visited Brazil to attend a congress of the LSR (CWI Brazil). He discusses the new era of political, social and economic convulsions that Brazil has entered and the need for […]
Profits from destruction
Brazil is vast, a continent within a continent, with a land mass equal to the USA. It is a country of stunning contrasts. The sheer beauty of the Amazon exists alongside the grim poverty which […]
“A day in Baghdad” was how many journalists and commentators in Brazil described Sunday 14 May.
Exclusive interview with Brazilian trade unionist
Just one year following the Presidential election victory of Luiz Inácio da Silva (or Lula as he is popularly known), of the Workers’ Party (PT), a new movement has been launched by former PT activists, […]
The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre hosted for the second year running the World Social Forum – billed as an alternative to the World Economic Forum, the international gathering of the representatives of capitalism, […]
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