Category: Brazil

World Bank, dictatorship and the Amazon: the history of deforestation in Brazil

During the 1980s a series of shocking images and films appeared of massive devastation underway in the Amazonian state of Rondonia. There, an area of old growth rainforest roughly equivalent to the size of Great Britain was being ripped down at record rate. As the fires generated huge smoke clouds, thousands of indigenous people who had been living in the forest died off at the hands of the ranchers and farmers, gunned down, poisoned or deliberately infected with smallpox.

Bolsonaro y la batalla por el futuro de Brasil: Entrevista con Elias Jabbour

La elección del político de extrema derecha Jair Bolsonaro en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas del año pasado causó conmoción en toda América Latina y en el mundo entero. ¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de los primeros ocho meses de Bolsonaro en el poder? Entrevisté a Elias Jabbour, profesor de la Universidad Estatal de Río de Janeiro y miembro del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Brasil (PCdoB) para conocer su perspectiva sobre las grandes luchas que actualmente están teniendo lugar en Brasil.

Bolsonaro et la bataille pour l’avenir du Brésil: un entretien avec Elias Jabbour

L'élection de l'homme politique d'extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro à l'élection présidentielle brésilienne de l'an dernier a provoqué une onde de choc en Amérique latine et dans le monde entier. Quel a été l'impact des huit premiers mois du mandat de Bolsonaro? J'ai interviewé Elias Jabbour, professeur à l'Université d'Etat de Rio de Janeiro et membre du Comité central du Parti communiste du Brésil (PCdoB) pour connaître son point de vue sur les grandes luttes qui ont lieu actuellement au Brésil.

Bolsonaro and the battle for Brazil’s future: an interview with Elias Jabbour

The election of far right politician Jair Bolsonaro in last year’s Brazilian Presidential election sent shock-waves across Latin America and the entire world. What has been the impact of Bolsonaro’s first eight months in office? I interviewed Elias Jabbour, Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University and member of the Communist Party of Brazil’s Central Committee (PCdoB) to find out his perspective on the great struggles that are currently taking place in Brazil.

Bolsonaro – “the chainsaw President” – is destroying the Amazon

The President of Brazil's Workers Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffman, has denounced Jair Bolsonaro’s destruction of the Amazon rainforest in a recent speech made in August 2019 which can be read in full below. Under Bolsonaro’s Presidency deforestation has been actively encouraged with disastrous results for Brazil and the entire world. The Brazilian people are resisting Bolsonaro’s environmentally destructive policies. As fires rage through the Amazon rainforest President Bolsonaro personal disapproval rating has reached an all-time high

Resisting Bolsonaro in Brazil: one million people strike to defend education

More than one million people took to the streets of Brazil on 15 May 2019 in nationwide strikes opposing the government’s massive attacks on education. Brazil’s far right President Jair Bolsonaro has been in office for less than five months and is already facing large resistance to his ultra neo-liberal agenda – and it is teachers and students that are leading the way.

Bolsonaro’s radical neo-liberal offensive in Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has wasted little time in advancing its project of systematically destroying the role of the state in Brazil’s economy. Bolsonaro’s radical neo-liberal offensive simultaneously encompasses drastic attacks on the economic and social rights of Brazil’s working class in addition to threatening the long term economic and social development of the country. Bolsonaro is effectively auctioning off Brazil’s future for the benefit of US capital and its allies.

Brazil: How US intervention paved the way for Bolsonaro’s rise

Daniel Hunt, a founding editor of Brasil Wire addressed the launch meeting of the Brazil Solidarity Initiative. He powerfully summarised how the US has intervened to politically persecute the left and decapitate its leadership through the two coups against Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva. This US intervention has paved the way for a fascist to become the President of the world’s fifth most populous country. Building an immense movement of solidarity with the progressive people of Brazil is absolutely vital. Below is the full transcript of Daniel’s speech.