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Lula is Right That the UN Security Council Can’t Resolve Major Conflicts,...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a state visit to Portugal and Spain last week. He was primarily seeking trade agreements, and especially wished to prepare the way for agreement this...
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Lula Is Working to Revive Brazil’s Democracy Against a Powerful Far-Right Bloc
Ever since taking office four months ago, Brazil’s President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, more commonly known as Lula, has faced the arduous task of rebuilding the country’s institutions, as well as its...
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Mexico Embraces Assange
John and Gabriel Shipton have been on and off the road on three continents for three years appealing to ordinary citizens and the powerful about the plight of their son and brother, Julian Assange,...
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Lula is Challenging Western Dominance
Lula da Silva used his state visit to Britain to champion the interests of the Global South, urge diplomacy over militarism and condemn the persecution of Julian Assange – a sign of Brazil’s new role...
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What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?
The Chamber of Deputies, dominated by the right, has set up a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to investigate “the real purpose” of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement The Landless Rural Workers’...
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Lula: From “Democratic Front” to “National Unity” Government
Lula and the PT have structured the new government by further expanding the democratic front that won the elections, incorporating parts of the traditional oligarchies of the Centrão [1] After managing...
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Brazil: Can Lula’s Plan Bring Peace to Ukraine?
Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement (MES) within the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s...
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Brazil Chooses Brazil
On June 21st, a delegation from the European Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations visited the Brazilian Congressional Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense. During a long...
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Lula Faces Powerful Opposition as He Seeks To Protect the Amazon and...
Surrounded by thousands of supporters, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known simply as “Lula”) was sworn into office on Jan. 1, 2023, at a colorful inauguration ceremony held at the Planalto Palace in...
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Lula: Veto Everything!
Apib* demands that President Lula be consistent with his environmentalist discourse and veto the entire bill that threatens indigenous lands. Following the approval of Bill 2903 (PL2903) by the Federal...
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Brazil’s Far-Right Farming Industry Is Testing the Limits of Lulismo
This September, Brazil — the world’s largest net exporter of agricultural commodities — announced the biggest grain harvest in its history. Farmers brought in a staggering 322 million tons of corn,...
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Javier Milei and Jair Bolsonaro Are Both Products of Neoliberalism in Its Age...
Javier Milei’s recent victory in the Argentine presidential election has left many wondering what place reactionary right-wing politics still holds in Latin America. Less than a year following the...
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US Media Suppressed Their Government’s Role in Ousting Brazil’s Government
In a new peer-reviewed academic article in Latin American Perspectives (11/19/23), “Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil’s Long Coup,” Sean T. Mitchell,...
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Slow Motion Lulismo
One year after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s return to power, it is possible to make a preliminary assessment of his governing strategy. After his election in October 2022, at the head of a heterogeneous...
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Chocolate and Sovereignty: A journey into Terra Vista
Documentary “Terra Vista” depicts the journey of a settlement of Brazil’s Landless Peasants Movement (MST) to recover a degraded territory and establish autonomous and agroecological cacao production....
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Brazil’s Anti-Capitalist Left Debates Path Forward Under Lula
The Movimento Esquerda Socialista (Socialist Left Movement, MES) is a revolutionary socialist tendency inside Brazil’s largest radical left party, the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and...
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MST’s Commitment to the Struggle and to the Brazilian People
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) launched on Saturday, January 27, its “Letter of Commitment to the Struggle and to the Brazilian People.” The...
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Ecosocialism, Internationalism And Fighting The Far-right in Brazil: An...
The Movimento Esquerda Socialista (Socialist Left Movement, MES) is a revolutionary socialist tendency inside Brazil’s largest radical left party, the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and...
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Brazil to Propose Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty to G20
Brazil will today propose to the G20 a global alliance against hunger and poverty, coinciding with the South American country’s rotating presidency of the group this year. The initiative was proposed...
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Brazil: ‘Lula is right, Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza’
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters at the African Union summit in Ethiopia on February 18. “What’s happening...
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Lula, Israel’s Genocide, and Racism on Brazilian Corporate Media
“Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The ‘incident’ with Israel takes the opposite direction and affects not only the image of our country but also the course of subjects that...
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Can Brazil Convince the World To Tax Billionaire Wealth?
Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world’s unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled luxury automaker Lamborghini, for the first time ever, has...
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60 Years Since Coup, Brazilians Call on US to Declassify its Role
Today marks a solemn anniversary in Brazil: 60 years ago, the Brazilian military seized power from the government of João Goulart, marking the start of over two decades of military rule. Brazil’s 2014...
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How the US is Scrambling to Stop Ukraine Peace Plan by China & Brazil w/...
While world leaders prepare to convene in Switzerland for a “peace summit” ostensibly called to advance peace in Ukraine despite excluding Russia from the meeting, Brazil and China have proposed an...
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In Defense of Brazil’s Public Universities (Again)
Approaching 60 days, the strike by the faculty of public federal universities (UFs) and federal high school institutes (IFs) in Brazil merits attention for its resilience and scope. In Congress,...
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“I Spent the Best Years of My Life in Cuba” – Marília Guimarães
Born into a bourgeois family of Portuguese origin, Marília Guimarães was born in 1945 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. Marked by the injustices and social inequalities affecting her...
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West’s Ukraine Summit Failed: Global South Rejected Pro-War ‘Peace Conference’
The Western powers held a conference in Switzerland in June in an attempt to gain more international support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. The vast majority of the world population, in the Global...
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Indigenous Lands Now Reported Key to Mitigating Climate Change in Brazil
In April, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recognized an additional two Indigenous territories, including one 32,000-hectare (more than 79,000-acre) territory belonging to the Karajá...
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Lessons for Democracy From the Brazilian Amazon
There was a time when the most dangerous part of Hugo Loss’ job was the grueling rainforest terrain and armed men blasting riverbeds and razing trees for profit. But Loss, an analyst with Brazil’s...
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The Long History of Brazil’s Struggle with Musk and X
Millions of Brazilians woke up on August 31 in a country without X, after the Supreme Court ordered the national telecommunications agency to block the social media platform. This move culminated over...
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