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14 March 2012
Brazil - Trade unionist sacked for denouncing a death
On March 12th, Joaquim Aristeu Benedito da Silva, a leading trade unionist working for AmBev in Jacareí (São Paulo state) was sacked...
7 December 2011
Brazilian socialists remember Socrates
The last day of the PSoL left party's congress in São Paulo was dedicated to the memory of the great Brazilian footballer Socrates, who died from liver disease on the same day...
24 March 2011
Brazil welcomed Obama with the arrest of 13 protesters
The arrival of Barack Obama in Brazil was marked by the political arrest of 13 Brazilians who were protesting against his presence in the country...
10 June 2009
Brazil: "Liberty, Socialism and Revolution" is born
ON THE 22 May in São Paulo, Brazil, a successful unification congress took place between Socialist Liberty Collective (CLS) and Revolutionary Socialism (SR - the Brazilian section of the CWI), to form a new organisation - Liberty, Socialism and Revolution (LSR)...
16 August 2008
Brazil - appeal for solidarity
* Conlutas - new trade union organisation under attack
* Condemn the brutal attack on the office of Conlutas and the subcontracted workers of Revap
* Build unity in struggle, against criminalisation of the social movements and for higher wages
* Joint Declaration by Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI) and Collectivo Socialismo y Liberdade.
29 November 2007
Brazil: An explosive brew in land of contrasts
DURING OCTOBER PETER TAAFFE visited Brazil for discussions with Marxists and socialists, along with LINDA TAAFFE, who visited schools and also discussed with teacher union activists in the struggle...
12 October 2006
Brazilian elections: Lula fails to win in first round
THE FIRST round of the Brazilian elections was an upset for the current president and candidate for re-election - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva - of the Workers' Party (PT), writes André Ferrari, Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI, Brazil).
1 June 2006
Brazil: Hundreds killed by brutal military police
BRAZIL'S HATED Military Police (PM) had a brutal response to the violence unleashed by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in São Paulo on 12 May (see last week's the socialist), writes Tony Saunois, CWI, Brazil.
25 May 2006
Brazil: 'War' erupts in São Paulo
Eyewitness report from a city in shock: A WEEK-LONG wave of violence between police and a notorious criminal gang in São Paulo, Brazil, has left over 170 people dead. As TONY SAUNOIS reports from a shocked city this 'war' is rooted in the country's corrupt and brutal...
6 April 2006
Brazil: Successful Socialismo Revolucionario congress
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8 December 2005
Brazil: Growing crisis over Lula government's corruption scandal
André Ferrari of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI, Brazil) and a leading activist on the Executive Committee of P-SOL - the country's new left-wing party - recently spoke to Sociali...
28 July 2005
Brazil: Lula government in crisis
PRESIDENT LULA'S government is undergoing its deepest political crisis since coming to power in January 2003...
12 March 2005
Brazil: A bloody week in the countryside
SIX PEOPLE were killed during a bloody week in the countryside in Brazil. It started with the killing of the American missionary Dorothy Stang on 12...
3 July 2004
Exclusive interview with Brazilian trade unionist
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, reports from his recent visit to Brazil, when he attended the conference of the new Brazilian party, the Party of Socialism and Liberty (SOL)...
12 June 2004
New Workers' Party Founded In Brazil
AMIDST ENTHUSIASTIC scenes, upwards of 1,000 workers, young people and representatives from the landless movement, formed a new party - "Party of Socialism and Liberty" (SOL) - in Brasília on 5-6 June...
7 February 2004
Brazil - Movement For A New Workers' Party Is Launched
ONLY ONE year after the Presidential election victory of "Lula" (Luiz Inacio da Silva) of the Workers' Party (PT) a new movement has been launched by former PT activists, trade unionists and socialists...
23 August 2003
Brazil: "Lula has betrayed us"
AS A union demonstration of 80,000 government workers marched to the Congress building in Brasilia on 6 August, "Lula has betrayed us" blared out of the truck mounted PA system, writes Dave Carr.
19 July 2003
"Stop The Reform Or We Will Stop The Country"
TRADE UNIONISTS in France and Austria have fought major battles this year to stop their right-wing governments attacking workers' pension rights...
16 June 2000
Brazil's workers and poor have nothing to celebrate
BRAZIL'S 500TH anniversary celebrations by the country's ruling elite were reduced to a farce as a result of mass protests, including occupations of land, government buildings and strikes by tens of thousands of students and public sector workers...
26 May 2000
Movement grows of workers and students in Brazil
IN BRAZIL there has recently been an upsurge in public-sector strikes in the education sector affecting universities and secondary schools, including the University of São Paulo (USP) the country's largest university...
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