https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-last-gasp-of-the-demonstrations https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-last-gasp-of-the-demonstrations 2016-08-31T13:51:58Z text/html en Agnese Marra Brazil <p>The holiday period and the Olympic Games, which started on Friday August 5, have been a contributory factor to Brazilians not taking to the streets in large numbers to contest or support the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Fatigue after more than a year of demonstrations, combined with the feeling that it's all over bar the shouting – and that the possibility of Dilma Rousseff regaining her position is very small – seem to be the most probable reasons to explain why both the left and the right are demobilized.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV499-August-2016-" rel="directory">IV499 - August 2016</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Brazil-+" rel="tag">Brazil</a>