Brazil

By Geraldina Colotti Source: Il Manifesto The Dawn News May 30, 2017 Joao Pedro Stédile is not only a fundamental part of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, but...

By Fania Rodrigues and Mariana Pitasse Source: Brasil de Fato / The Dawn News May 28, 2017 Credit of the Photographs: Direct Now Movement 150.000 people participated this...

The history of general strikes in Brazil shows why last month’s — the country’s largest yet — was so vital   By Marcelo Badaró Source: Jacobin Mag...

Amid record levels of unemployment and a terribly unpopular government, unions and citizens from all walks of life are taking part in one of...

Down below we bring you a sum up in pictures of the mobilizations at Brazil against Temer’s reforms. The Dawn News Exclusive Photo The Dawn News...

BRICS Issues Joint Statement: Illegal Military Intervention in Syria Is Unacceptable The joint BRICS statement says military action in Syria without authorization from the UN...

A catastrophic setback to environmental and indigenous protections was narrowly averted last week when quick action from two federal deputies prevented the agricultural lobby from forcing passage of bills to authorize construction of three mega-industrial waterways in the Amazon and elsewhere.

Brazil’s Dilma on being betrayed https://youtu.be/YcUQ_evqEpg Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff tells Mehdi Hasan her biggest regrets and proudest achievements. https://youtu.be/1FjU-lqxUpE      

Wall Street and the Pentagon greeted the onset of 2016 as a ‘banner year’, a glorious turning point in the quest for malleable regimes willing to sell-off the most lucrative economic resources, to sign off on onerous new debt to Wall Street and to grant use of their strategic military bases to the Pentagon.

We, the Brazilian working class are going through a very difficult moment, especially for the left. We’re coming from a period that we in Brazil call “the decline of political struggles”. Obviously, over the last three years the right managed to accumulate much more strength, because it made an important alliance with conservative sectors of the judicial power and of