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Lula's convictions quashed,- a bolt in Brazil's not-so-blue sky

João Machado, Tárzia Medeiros — 2021-03-17T06:39:43Z

“The repositioning of Lula also has an impact on the left as a whole, including those who, like the PSOL, were in opposition to his government.”

- IV554 - March 2021 / Brazil

Women, feminist economics and the production of life in the Latin American context

Tárzia Medeiros — 2018-04-03T09:26:32Z

Based on the situation in Latin America, this article aims to reflect on the role of women in ensuring the structural conditions for a mode of life and production, with a particular emphasis on respect for and defence of common goods, and on a critique of the sexual and international division of labour. We hope it raises some points that can help to advance the debate on this topic among the anticapitalist left.

- IV519 - April 2018 / Women, Economy, Latin America

The saga of “hope” defeated by “fear”

João Machado, Tárzia Medeiros — 2016-05-11T11:50:47Z

The crisis is not yet the event, but it is already the announcement of it, a door opened.... hours are transformed then suddenly into minutes and years into days. Daniel BensaÃ¯d

The world is witnessing with perplexity the political, legal and media coup, called in Brazil “the institutional coup”, which reached its culminating point during the vote which took place in the national legislative chamber on April 17, 2016, for the approval of the opening of the process of the impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff. We are witnessing the sad end of the era of Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) government, the result of the trajectory that they have taken since Lula's first term as president. It sent signals to the markets and the right, and sought to assemble a coalition government where all interests and social classes would be represented. Its first major initiative was the “reforma da PrevidÃªncia”, the reform of unemployment insurance, of a clearly neoliberal character. Its policy has demobilised the social base of popular support for the PT and strengthened the sectors which today have turned their backs on it.

- IV496 - May 2016 / Brazil

Birth of a new organization of the revolutionary left

Tárzia Medeiros — 2013-07-28T07:08:52Z

The reconstruction of the socialist left in Brazil has made an important step forward. On 7 July, still in the heat of the recent demonstrations that swept the country, about one hundred and sixty delegates attended the Conference which approved the unification between three currents Colectivo Socialismo y Libertad (CSOL), Enlace and the Colectivo Luta Vermelha (CLV), creating a new political organization in the Brazilian revolutionary left, organized within the PSol.

- News from around the world / Brazil, New parties of the left

Feminism and ecosocialism: a necessary alliance

Tárzia Medeiros — 2013-06-27T00:10:53Z

For as long as capitalism and patriarchy have existed as systems linked to each other, they have made an alliance to establish a relationship of domination over nature and of appropriation and exploitation of everything that, on this basis, they stereotyped as beings of an "inferior nature", which includes women and their bodies. At the same time, the condition of blacks, mestizos and the indigenous, and their ethnic and cultural subordination, became something natural. Everything that comes from nature and does not match the standard of masculine and bourgeois social evolution and that does not fit the paradigm of white and Western, exists only as something of an "inferior nature"

- IV461 - June 2013 / Women, Ecosocialism

Criminalisation of social movements and poverty: a feminist outlook

Tárzia Medeiros — 2009-07-31T11:05:28Z

The headway made by globalised capitalism, especially in Latin America,
has set this region in the eye of the hurricane of social protest and
the convergence of different anticapitalist struggles.

- IV414 - July 2009

National March in Defence of Rights

Tárzia Medeiros — 2007-10-28T18:50:14Z

Under the strong morning sun, on October 24 the Brazilian Capital was changed into the Red Capital in defence of our rights, conquered for the Brazilian people throughout many years of struggle and threatened by the neoliberal agenda implemented by the Lula government.

- IV393 - October 2007 / Brazil