Brazil: Life Inside an MST Landless Workers’ Settlement

Michael Fox ‘Out there they call us riff raff. But we are really organized. And we are able to build much more than people out there believe.’ For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow…

War in Brazil

Tulio Ribeiro Police officers drive past people carrying a body after a drug raid in Rio de Janeiro on July 21. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters) Brazil is at war, in 2023 it continues its upward curve. The city of Rio de Janeiro is 2068 KM from Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, is…

Another Lula Foreign Policy Blunder: The NATO-Russian Proxy War Isn’t Being Fought “Over Small Things”

Andrew Korybko If the PT’s base was aware of the military-strategic dynamics that forced Russia to commence its special operation as a last resort for defending the integrity of its national security red lines in Ukraine after NATO clandestinely crossed them there, then they’d be against Lula’s political support of Kiev. It would thus be…

Women of the Earth: Landless Women

MST Photo: MST in Minas Gerais Coluna Aromas de Março extols the importance of women in Popular Agrarian Reform in the struggle for a more egalitarian country All over the world we are experiencing a crisis of the capitalist production model, which expresses its contradictions in different aspects, among them: political, economic, social, and environmental….

What is Really Going on with Lula?

What is Really Going on w/ Lula? Breaking down the facts, the lies, good & bad plus the Truth About Human Rights Nicaragua. Camila Escalante & Teri Mattson Rumble https://t.co/8rUGCW3tzi — Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) March 10, 2023 Latin American governments say they don’t want foreign governments intervening in their internal affairs. Impossible to take them…

Lula is Meddling in Nicaragua at Biden’s Behest

Andrew Korybko As “politically inconvenient” as it may be for some to admit, whether they’re multipolar supporters outside of Brazil or members of the PT, it’s arguably the case that Lula is meddling in Nicaragua nowadays at Biden’s behest shortly after jointly condemning Russia alongside his US counterpart in DC. These two unfriendly developments concern…

Brazil: Landless Women Denounce Repression at the National Day of Struggle

MST MST in Pará On Wednesday, there were several incidents of repression against women by the police and private security forces In mobilization all over the country, the National Day of Struggle of Landless Women gathered in 22 states and the Federal District, with marches, occupations of lands and public agencies and a series of…

A Strong, Fair and Sovereign Brazil is an Essential Force for World Peace

Fiona EdwardsThe recent election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the end of 2022 represents a significant victory for the people of Brazil and for progressive forces throughout Latin America and across the world. What are the prospects for Lula’s Presidency domestically and internationally? What changes can we expect? I interviewed Elias Jabbour, Professor…

Ukraine Peace Plans: The Contrast Between the Chinese and Brazilian Formula

Quantum Bird Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira met with his Neo-Nazi Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. The government of the People’s Republic of China recently presented to the world its proposals for achieving peace in Ukraine. The document, which is structured in 12 points, frames the…

Where Lula’s Foreign Policy is Headed

Mision Verdad Yesterday, February 23, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution condemning Russia for its Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a few hours after the first anniversary of its launch due to Washington’s systematic disregard of President Vladimir Putin’s demands regarding NATO’s threatening eastward expansion and Kiev’s increasingly belligerent…

Consolidating Brazil’s Status as a Geopolitical Dwarf

Quantum Bird The so-called  “Vigorous and Proud” Foreign Policy – slogan repeated ad nauseum by Celso Amorim during the years of the first Lula administration – never really convinced anyone with an IQ above room temperature (in degrees Celsius), but at least it allowed Brazil to gain some international prestige and a certain protagonism as…

Undefeated Revolutions

On Latin America Review, Kawsachun News spoke to Francisco Dominguez, a researcher at the Middlesex University and the secretary of the Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign, who has long been a pillar of the movements in solidarity of Latin America, in the UK. Francisco, who is Chilean, spoke to Ollie about how Venezuela has managed to survive…

South America in Dispute: The New Commodity Wars

Rafael Bautista S. Image: Peru Protests | Misión de Solidaridad Internacional y DDHH The recent declarations of Laura Richardson, head of the US Southern Command, show the reformulation of the Monroe Doctrine in terms of the strategic rethinking required to contain the improbable expansion of China and the military power that would guarantee the global…

Lula Flirts with Montezuma

Quantum Bird Montezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, and Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador Montezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction. On the other hand, according to the more popular…

Russian Ambassador to India Indirectly Rubbished Lula’s Ukraine Peace Proposal

Andrew Korybko The most passionate supporters of newly re-elected and now three-time Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s popularly known as Lula, have praised his G20-like peace proposal from late last month as a potential game-changer for resolving the Ukrainian Conflict. In their eyes, his prior comparison of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine to the US’ Hybrid War on Venezuela doesn’t disqualify from…

Brazil: Democracy at Risk

Frei Betto President João Goulart, at the Automóvel Clube, on March 30, 1964, the eve of his overthrow. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”, says an aphorism I have heard since childhood. We, the defenders of democracy, cannot let our guard down. Let’s not fool ourselves again; our fragile democracy is still at risk….

Lula Proposes BRICS Currency, but Makes Unfriendly Comments Towards Russia and China

Editorial Comment: The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) praised Lula’s public condemnation of Russia’s “invasion and occupation of Ukraine” – something they claim Jair Bolsonaro would not do.  Just prior to Lula’s trip to Argentina, “the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and the Ukrainian-Brazilian Central Representation (UBCR) appealed to the president to increase support for Ukraine in 2023.”…

Ahead of its 40th Anniversary, MST Releases a Letter to the Brazilian People

Peoples Dispatch National Coordination meeting of the MST. Photo: Matheus Alves Following its national coordination meeting, the MST reaffirms its commitment against oppression and in defense of food security The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) released, on Friday January 27, the Letter to the Brazilian People, a document with political messages and guidelines to activists…