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/Organizing-for-Socialism-and-Freedom-in-Brazil-an-interview-with-PSOL-activist https://internationalviewpoint.org/Organizing-for-Socialism-and-Freedom-in-Brazil-an-interview-with-PSOL-activist 2013-02-18T08:13:26Z text/html en Rodrigo Santaella Brazil New parties of the left <p><i>Against the Current</i> interviewed Rodrigo Santaella, a member of the revolutionary socialist organization Enlace and an activist in the Brazilian Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL). We met him at the Fourth International's Ecosocialism School in Amsterdam in December 2012 . This annual, three-week school serves as an intensive Marxist political education for FI members and allies. Readings and audio of presentations from the school can be found here.<br class='autobr' /> PSOL emerged out of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) in 2004. The PT was originally a radical left party which the FI section in Brazil was instrumental in building. With the election of Lula da Silva in 2002, however, the party took a decisive turn to the right and began implementing a neoliberal program. A section of the party's left-wing exited the PT and eventually founded PSOL, in an effort to create an anti-capitalist alternative to the PT. Rodrigo discusses this process and the state of PSOL and the Brazilian left today. For a more detailed discussion of the PT's political trajectory, see João Machado's article "The Experience of Building the DS and PT, from 1979 to the first Lula government."</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV457-February-2013-" rel="directory">IV457 - February 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Brazil-+" rel="tag">Brazil</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-New-parties-of-the-left-+" rel="tag">New parties of the left</a>