In stark contrast to the snail pace of Brazil’s judiciary branch concerning agrarian reform issues, Rio de Janeiro’s Justice Department has moved with speed after Rural Landless Workers Movement families occupied Santa Rosa farm, owned by former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation Ricardo Teixeira. Early Tuesday morning, some 300 families participating in the MST’s…
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Foro de São Paulo Resolution in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and the Constituent Assembly
The XXIII Meeting of the Forum of Sao Paulo, meeting in Managua, Nicaragua, Central America, from July 15 to 19, 2017, approved the following Resolution of solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and on the election of the Constituent Assembly in The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the basis of the following considerations: From the first…
Brazil’s MST Campesinos Occupy Farm Belonging to Temer
About 800 landless people took control of the land at 6 a.m. as part of the movement’s National Day of Struggle. A sign outside the farm reads, “Lands of the corrupt for the agrarian reform,” in Sao Paulo. | Photo: MST The Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil occupied a farm Wednesday that appears to belong…
MST Conducts Courses in Revolutionary Thought in Bahia
MST Communications in Bahia In view of the current democratic instability and withdrawal of rights Brazil, the MST in Bahia has developed a strategic plan for this year – the realization of political theory training courses in ten regions where the Movement is organized. The training activities began in March and have occurred in eight…
Venezuela: Constituent Assembly – Yes! So Called Plebiscite – No!
The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) once again calls for the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Venezuela. There is presently underway in Venezuela a strategy by the forces of reaction assembled in the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) to frustrate each and every peaceful and democratic initiative to resolve the ongoing conflict in that country….
Consensus of Our America, Response to Imperial Offensive
FULL TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT Managua Prensa Latina Before the present geopolitical situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, social movements and left wing parties of the region decided to respond with a programatic document as struggle strategy in defense of unity. It is the Consensus of Our America, whose draft was finished during a…
