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The coup d'état of 2016, the current stage and the tasks of the Left

Insurgencia — 2018-08-09T15:21:45Z

Thesis one. The Dilma government was overthrown by an institutional coup d'état, in the midst of an offensive by the reactionary and ultra-neoliberal right, thus creating a difficult situation for the left and for all popular struggles.

- IV523 - August 2018 / Brazil

Temer, we charge you

Insurgencia — 2018-03-25T10:17:56Z

The president and his party-gang are directly responsible for the economic crisis and the violence that tears the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro and which also allowed the political assassination of Marielle and Anderson.

- IV518 - March 2018 / Brazil

The coup took place: An unprecedented neoliberal attack is on the way.

Insurgencia — 2016-09-07T18:17:49Z

For most of the time, Rousseff's impeachment was an act of the gangster Eduardo Cunha, supported by former allies of the PT government, that set up an institutional coup a la Honduras and Paraguay. Also in these little brother countries in Latin America, elected governments were dismissed by parliamentary-judicial maneuvers trampling their own constitutions.

- IV500 - September 2016 / Brazil

“Neither the 13th nor the 15th represent us”

Insurgencia — 2015-03-16T12:01:56Z

On Friday 13 March and Sunday 15 March, Brazil saw two mass mobilizations across the country. Over a million people took to the streets. The first was called by the governing Workers' Party (PT) and its supporters to counter the second, organized by a number of right-wing forces seeking to take advantage of governmental disarray and call for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff. The crisis in government has been caused by a vast and still unfolding corruption scandal involving the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, and most of the mainstream political parties – especially the PT and its coalition allies – coupled with a sharp downturn in the economy and austerity measures, which are turning Brazil's “emerging economy” into what some are calling a “submerging economy”. The following editorial by Insurgencia was published two days before the pro-government demonstrations.

- IV482 - March 2015 / Brazil