Solidarity with the São Paulo subway workers' strike!
Solidarity with the São Paulo subway workers' strike! Submitted by Tubeworker on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 17:11Subway workers in São Paulo, Brazil, are striking to win a 12% wage increase. Their strike is now...
View ArticleWorld Cup begins with strikes and demonstrations
World Cup begins with strikes and demonstrationsMatthewWed, 06/11/2014 - 11:54In the run up to the World Cup, the Brazilian city of São Paulo was rocked by demonstrations, riots and a subway...
View ArticleWhere now for Brazil?
Where now for Brazil?AWLWed, 07/30/2014 - 10:36The World Cup has just ended in Brazil. Contrary to what we might expect the political situation remains, with the exception of the struggles of normally...
View ArticleRousseff wins first round in Brazilian elections
Rousseff wins first round in Brazilian electionsMatthewWed, 10/08/2014 - 10:45In the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, the incumbent Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party) took 41.1% of the...
View ArticleA coup in Brazil?
A coup in Brazil?martinSat, 03/26/2016 - 19:59Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder; and the tools of...
View ArticleBrazil: the plans of the right
Brazil: the plans of the right MatthewWed, 05/11/2016 - 15:24On 10 May the acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil's parliament, appointed after the previous speaker was forced out on charges of...
View ArticleBrazil: behind the Olympics
Brazil: behind the OlympicsMatthewWed, 08/10/2016 - 14:02On the day of the Olympic opening ceremony, 5 August, a demonstration against interim president Michael Temer closed off a main street in Rio de...
View ArticleTemer versus the workers
Temer versus the workersMatthewWed, 03/29/2017 - 10:02On 22 March, Brazil’s coup government of Michel Temer brought forward a law, previously shelved, to legalise the expansion of outsourcing....
View ArticleBrazil’s crisis of hegemony
Brazil’s crisis of hegemonyMatthewWed, 05/31/2017 - 10:59Brazil seems stuck in a permanent political crisis. After three years of agony, President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (PT) was...
View ArticleProsperity for the few, stagnation for the many
Prosperity for the few, stagnation for the manyMatthewWed, 06/14/2017 - 11:18Right-wingers are trumpeting the claimed prosperity of the US economy since Trump’s election, and of the British economy...
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