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Lula: from the “democratic front” to the “national unity” government

Ana C. Carvalhaes, José Correa Leite — 2023-05-25T08:56:42Z

“A systemic alternative will be organized with a program that allows the world of work to embrace all its heterogeneity and build the social and political alliances necessary to challenge for state power.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / Brazil

8 January: Contradictions and alternatives in the struggle against fascism

José Correa Leite — 2023-02-19T08:11:47Z

“[A] decisive democratic struggle has begun. This is an opportunity to confront impunity, violence, disregard for life (the criminal deaths of the pandemic being the most egregious case), militarization of society and its control by militias – linking it all to the criminalization of the coup activities of Bolsonaro and his associates.“

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Far Right

On the nature of the Brazilian crisis and the issues, from the point of view of socialists

Ana C. Carvalhaes, José Correa Leite — 2017-07-28T16:40:52Z

"You who walk, the path is the trace of your steps and nothing else:
You who walk, there is no path, you make the path as you go..."
Antonio Machado, Proverbios and Cantares XXIX, Campos de Castilla

- IV510 - July 2017 / Brazil

Fragmentation, convergences and strategic goals: some pointers from the Thematic Social Forum

José Correa Leite — 2012-04-15T15:53:16Z

Capitalist crisis, social and environmental justice was the subject of the Thematic Social Forum organised in the run up to the People's Summit of Rio+20, which was held in Porto Alegre from January 25-28 and brought together at least 60,000 participants in about 600 activities. (40,000 of them had officially paid registrations). This Forum, the first Thematic Social Forum held in Brazil, was a huge success in one of its goals which was to mobilize and involve Brazilian and international civil society in the process of the People's Summit that is already being discussed more widely. It also made it possible to intensify the dialogue with the Brazilian government about what is at stake in Rio+20: President Dilma Roussef participated in two activities; a private meeting with 90 leaders of movements and an open one at Gigantinho Stadium [] - note that this document, with the speech of JoÃ£o Pedro Stedille and (…)" id="nh1">1].

- IV447 - April 2012 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Social Forum

2006 Elections - a profound political break

João Machado, José Correa Leite — 2006-11-12T11:19:35Z

In the first round of Brazil's presidential election Left Front candidate Helopisa Helena scored more than 6.5 million votes, or 6.85% of the total. But the elections were mainly characterised by voter apathy, a reflection of the frustrated hopes of the most politicised sectors after four years of Lula government.

- IV383 - November 2006 / Brazil

The collapse of the PT and rebuilding the Brazilian left

Felix Sanchez, Fernando Kinas, José Correa Leite — 2005-10-08T11:44:47Z

Three militants of Democracia Socialista, Brazilian supporters of the Fourth International, analyse the current crisis of the Workers Party, the Lula government and the prospects for refounding socialism in that country.

- IV371 - October 2005 / Brazil

The most serious crisis in the Workers Party's history

José Correa Leite — 2005-06-30T21:11:57Z

The declarations by the president of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), Roberto Jefferson, have provoked the biggest scandal the Brazilian Congress has seen since the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Budget, in 1992.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Brazil, New parties of the left