INTERVIEW: Fascist Coup Attempt & Lessons For Brazilian/US Working Class

Fabio Bosco talks about the growth of the fascist movement and the need for the working class and unions to organize for self defense and against fascist attacks that will continue regardless of the apparent failure of this insurrection and coup attempt. Continue reading INTERVIEW: Fascist Coup Attempt & Lessons For Brazilian/US Working Class

Thousands of Mining and Steelworkers of CSN in Brazil on Struggle

The absence of dialogue has marked the position of CSN since the beginning of the strike. Now, in an authoritarian action aimed at repressing the strong mobilization of the comrades from CSN’s Presidente Vargas Unit, in Volta Redonda (RJ), the company management dismissed five workers who are members of the workers’ committee, on this Monday (April 11). Continue reading Thousands of Mining and Steelworkers of CSN in Brazil on Struggle

Death on eve of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day sparks fury

A Black man died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on the eve of Friday’s Black Consciousness Day observations, sparking outrage as videos of the incident circulated on social media. A short clip showed one guard restraining João Alberto Silveira Freitas just outside the doors of a Carrefour supermarket while the other pummeled him with repeated blows … Continue reading Death on eve of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day sparks fury

Accelerated Contagion Completes 15 Weeks in Brazil

The coronavirus contagion in Brazil has been accelerating for 15 weeks, according to calculations by the epidemic control center at Imperial College, one of the leading centers in the world. Since the week of April 27, the country has had a transmission rate above 1, which means that the infection is picking up speed. In the week that started this Sunday (3), the index, also … Continue reading Accelerated Contagion Completes 15 Weeks in Brazil