Brazil
More Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in Brazil than Anywhere Else in the World
Hundreds of nurses have died in Brazil as a result of the coronavirus.
Esquerda Diário
August 12, 2020Black Women in the Fight Against Racism and Capitalism Around the World
This call for Black women to join in building a global revolutionary movement to overthrow capitalism was published yesterday throughout Latin America on the occasion of International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day.
Olivia Wood
July 26, 2020Bolsonaro Has the Coronavirus
Bolosonaro is trying to reopen Brazil and vetoed a law that would make the use of masks obligatory. However, at an in-person press conference on Tuesday, he announced that he has the coronavirus.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
July 7, 2020Call for International Unity with Latin American Delivery Workers’ Walk-Out
Workers from delivery companies in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador, are organizing for an international strike on July 1.
Esquerda Diário
July 1, 2020Brazil Reaches 50,000 Coronavirus Deaths as the Country Reopens
Over 50,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Brazil and well over one million people have been infected. As cases climb, the country is re-opening.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
June 24, 2020Bolsonaro’s Coronavirus Response is a Campaign of Terror Against Black and Indigenous People
Brazil is a new epicenter in the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The death toll has doubled in only the last two weeks, reaching more than 30,000. Not coincidentally, the country is led by the world’s foremost coronavirus denier: Jair Bolsonaro.
Robert Belano
June 3, 2020Latin America, New Epicenter of the Pandemic: Coronavirus and Imperialism Lead the Region to Disaster
The WHO warns that Latin America has become the new epicenter of the pandemic. Together with the coronavirus, the region’s inequalities and imperialist oppression will have fatal consequences.
Ana Rivera
May 29, 2020“Bolsonaro Prefers to Invest in Mass Graves for Black People Rather than in Healthcare”: An Interview with a Brazilian Socialist
Brazilian socialist Leticia Parks, of the Movement of Revolutionary Workers speaks about the state of the pandemic in Brazil, a growing hotspot for the virus. She also speaks about the ultra-right wing Bolsonaro government and violence against Black Brazilians.
Luigi Morris
May 26, 2020Marcello Pablito: “On May 1, We Remember Our History of Struggle”
In a speech given at the international rally of the Trotskyist Fraction this May Day, Marcello Pablito, a leader of the Revolutionary Workers Movement (MRT) and the afro-socialist group quilombo vermelho, denounces the right wing government of Jair Bolsonaro for racist and antiworker attacks during the pandemic. He speaks about how Black people in Brazil are most at risk of both infection and state violence during the pandemic and how a united working class is the only solution the present crisis.
Marcello Pablito
May 9, 2020The Invincible Spirit of Palmares: The Story of Brazil’s Largest Community of Escaped Slaves
The history of enslaved Africans in Brazil is one of horrific exploitation and violence, but also of heroic resistance and anti-colonial struggle. Nowhere is this as clear as in the experiences of the 16th century settlement of escaped slaves, Palmares, which fought for survival and independence against colonial powers.
Daniel Alfonso
April 23, 2020