International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

On 7 September: “Take to the streets to defeat the coup”

Esquerda Online — 2021-09-04T08:12:14Z

“From today until 7 September, the most important task is the construction of large popular mobilizations on the occasion of National Independence Day. ”

- IV560 - September 2021 / Brazil

Home of Carolina Iara, PSOL co-councillor in São Paulo, attacked - Investigation now!

Esquerda Online — 2021-01-28T16:57:45Z

Just two days before Brazil's National Day of Trans Visibility (29 January) an attack on a Black transvestite, intersex elected representative in São Paulo.

- News from around the world / Brazil, Women, LGBT

Bolsonaro is breaking the country: 200,000 dead, unemployment and poverty

Esquerda Online — 2021-01-18T09:27:33Z

“It is necessary to make 2021 a year of resistance and unitary action, on the streets - while respecting health standards - against this genocidal government. ”

- IV552 - January 2021 / Brazil

Fires ravage Brazil's wetlands

Esquerda Online — 2020-10-01T08:43:41Z

The environmental catastrophe now occurring in the Pantanal, with the terrible fires that are devastating the fauna and flora of one of the most important biomes in Brazil, is unfortunately not just a natural disaster. Just like the destruction of the Amazon, this is first and foremost the direct result of the anti-environmental policies of the government of Jair Bolsonaro. The number of fires that have broken out in the Amazon in the first 14 days of September 2020 has already surpassed those recorded for the whole of September 2019.

- IV549 - October 2020 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment

Fighting back is the only way out of Bolsonaro's Brazil

Esquerda Online — 2020-01-22T09:20:38Z

Brazil dominates Latin America's economy. And although the coup in Bolivia, uprisings in Chile, Ecuador, and Columbia, Trump's threats against Iran, Australian megafires, mass strikes in India and France, anti-government protests in Lebanon, and the British elections have pushed Brazil off the front of the international pages, what happens in Brazil will go a long way to determining the social and politic balance of power in Latin America in the coming period. In just one year, far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has done a lot of damage. The Amazon rain forest is burning, social services, education, culture, women's rights, and unions are under attack. Bolsonaro and his followers have given the green light to the murder of indigenous activists, they have threatened LGTBQ people and elected officials, their fingerprints are all over the assassination of Party of Socialism and Freedom Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle France, and they have launched a campaign against “cultural Marxism.” Yet, despite legitimate fears, Bolsonaro has not managed to consolidate a neo-fascist party, his administration is enmeshed in growing corruptions scandals, and the judiciary was forced to release former Workers Party (PT) president Lula in October, who stands as a unique electoral threat to Bolsonaro's reelection in 2022.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Brazil