Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Brazil: popular revolt and its limits
June 2018 marks five years since the wave of protests against the price of collective transportation, which shook the streets of hundreds of brazilian cities in 2013. At the heart of those riots was the Movimento Passe Livre (something like Free Pass Movement), an autonomous and horizontal social movement founded in 2005, which defended the gratuity of transport. Written in 2014 by two militants who later left the organization, this article reflects on the limits of that cycle of protests.
Review of The New Brazil: regional imperialism and the new democracy.
Originally posted to the South Florida IWW blog. The following piece is a review by Miami IWW member, Scott Nikolas Nappalos. He provides thorough overview of The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy where he explains Brazil’s economic and political history and analyze the concept of imperialism. It is a well written piece and we recommend everyone to read more below.
Brazil World Cup 2014: workers' deaths, racism, gentrification, and cultural terrorism
Brazil protests continue as strikes and occupations begin
In Brazil, demonstrations against transport price increases: police repression provokes the anger of youth
An article written by group of the International Communist Current in Brazil on the recent wave of protests sparked by public transport price rises.