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14 March 2012
Brazil - Trade unionist sacked for denouncing a death
On March 12th, Joaquim Aristeu Benedito da Silva, a leading trade unionist working for AmBev in Jacareí (São Paulo state) was sacked...
7 December 2011
Brazilian socialists remember Socrates
The last day of the PSoL left party's congress in São Paulo was dedicated to the memory of the great Brazilian footballer Socrates, who died from liver disease on the same day...
24 March 2011
Brazil welcomed Obama with the arrest of 13 protesters
The arrival of Barack Obama in Brazil was marked by the political arrest of 13 Brazilians who were protesting against his presence in the country...
CWI Latin America school, photo CWI
24 February 2010
CWI Latin America school: A continent on the brink
Members and supporters of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) in Latin America met for a very enthusiastic and successful political education school in Brazil between 3 and 7 February...
26 August 2009
World recession, revolution and counter-revolution in Latin America
Former president of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan has described the economic situation we are living through today as a: "once in a century economic crisis", writes Aron Amm, CWI Germany.
Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party Ireland, speaking at the European CWI school, photo Bob Severn
29 July 2009
Building support for world socialism
Committee for a Workers' International: The annual summer school of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium during the week 12 to 17 July. Over 350 CWI members - many of them young people - came together from CWI sections worldwide to discuss the world economic crisis, the political situation in many countries, and workers' struggles across the globe.
10 June 2009
Brazil: "Liberty, Socialism and Revolution" is born
ON THE 22 May in São Paulo, Brazil, a successful unification congress took place between Socialist Liberty Collective (CLS) and Revolutionary Socialism (SR - the Brazilian section of the CWI), to form a new organisation - Liberty, Socialism and Revolution (LSR)...
16 August 2008
Brazil - appeal for solidarity
* Conlutas - new trade union organisation under attack
* Condemn the brutal attack on the office of Conlutas and the subcontracted workers of Revap
* Build unity in struggle, against criminalisation of the social movements and for higher wages
* Joint Declaration by Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI) and Collectivo Socialismo y Liberdade.
12 March 2008
World's poor hit by rocketing food prices
ONE IN six of the world's population (854 million) do not have enough food to eat. Every year, despite the recent boom in the world economy, another four million are added to this total.
1 March 2008
The 2008 National Congress is taking place against the background of a profound change in the world economy and, flowing from that, the political situation...
20 February 2008
OVER 80 members of the Committee for a Workers' International* - representing sections in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela and visitors from Europe and the USA - recently met in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for an education school...
29 November 2007
Brazil: An explosive brew in land of contrasts
DURING OCTOBER PETER TAAFFE visited Brazil for discussions with Marxists and socialists, along with LINDA TAAFFE, who visited schools and also discussed with teacher union activists in the struggle...
22 March 2007
"Bush out of Iraq and Lula out of Haiti"
IN BRAZIL, the biggest protest was on 8 March in S‹o Paulo, where President Lula received Bush...
1 March 2007
Latin America: A continent in revolt
CWI world congress report (4): THE RECENT world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI - the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) debated the explosive developments in Latin America where th...
22 February 2007
CWI world congress: How will new workers' parties be built?
CWI world congress report (3): ROGER BANNISTER Socialist Party visitor and national secretary of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party reports....
1 February 2007
CWI World Congress: Building the forces of socialism worldwide
The ninth world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium in mid-January...
2 November 2006
Lula's win is no victory for Brazil's poor
BRAZIL'S INCUMBENT president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, cruised to victory in last Sunday's run-off ballot...
12 October 2006
Brazilian elections: Lula fails to win in first round
THE FIRST round of the Brazilian elections was an upset for the current president and candidate for re-election - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva - of the Workers' Party (PT), writes André Ferrari, Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI, Brazil).
1 June 2006
Brazil: Hundreds killed by brutal military police
BRAZIL'S HATED Military Police (PM) had a brutal response to the violence unleashed by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in São Paulo on 12 May (see last week's the socialist), writes Tony Saunois, CWI, Brazil.
25 May 2006
Brazil: 'War' erupts in São Paulo
Eyewitness report from a city in shock: A WEEK-LONG wave of violence between police and a notorious criminal gang in São Paulo, Brazil, has left over 170 people dead. As TONY SAUNOIS reports from a shocked city this 'war' is rooted in the country's corrupt and brutal...
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