Second Round — Vote for Lula and Mobilize the Working Class The majority of Brazilians rejected Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential election. Bolsonaro trailed Lula of the Workers Party (PT) by a difference of 6.18 million votes. Despite this, the genocidal president has shown once again that he is not a lame […]
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We need to build struggle and a socialist alternative! Every day we see and feel new reasons for the urgency of defeating Bolsonaro. Rising prices and hunger, unemployment, corruption in education, sabotage of the Covid vaccination, new cases of racism and police violence, privatisation, social cuts and environmental destruction with deforestation, the release of pesticides, […]
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Defeat Bolsonaro and Build a Socialist Alternative Form committees of struggle against Bolsonaro, hunger and the coup! Build a national action plan of the working class and social movements! Bolsonaro’s brazen attitude and Paulo Guedes’ ravings about the economic situation cannot hide the harsh reality. We have 33 million Brazilians going hungry, in addition to […]
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Marcus Kolbrunner is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). All support to the strike of the workers of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI)! Xavier out! All support to the struggle of indigenous peoples in defense of their lives and lands! The barbaric murder of the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira and the […]
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After a tense and uncertain second round Gustavo Petro has won the Colombian presidential elections with 50.4% of the vote, beating right-populist opponent Rodolfo Hernandez who picked up 47.3%, a difference of 700,000 votes. Voter turnout was 58%, up from 54% in the first The mood amongst supporters of Pacto Historico (Historic Pact, the left […]
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The results of the first round of the Colombian presidential elections reflect deep political polarization, a rejection of the political establishment and the masses yearning for fundamental change. In a traditional bastion of US imperialism, a stunning blow has been dealt to Uribismo, the far-right neoliberal politics (named after former president Alvaro Uribe) that have […]
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David Quintana is an ISA sympathiser in Colombia. The working class and oppressed must stay mobilised for future struggles! As the world enters a new phase after the definitive failure of neoliberalism, Colombia will present a new face on May 29. The voting for the first presidential round, after a four-year term plagued by a […]
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Defeating the coup being prepared by Bolsonaro and his supporters is the central task for conscious workers and the oppressed people resisting the daily hell of inflation, unemployment, hunger, racism, sexism and violence under this extreme right-wing government and the capitalist crisis. The current majority leaderships of the left and centre-left think that this will […]
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Darragh O’Dwyer is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The impacts of the war in Ukraine are reverberating throughout the world, heaping more turmoil onto the global economy and spurring social and political crises. Ongoing protests and riots in Peru triggered by spiraling inflation have already left seven people dead and are […]
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Every day we see new reasons for the urgency of defeating Bolsonaro: the deaths caused by torrential rains, rising prices and hunger, the sabotage of the vaccination of children against Covid, new racist murders, privatisations, social cuts and the impact of mining and release of agrotoxins. Despite numerous crises and protests, the Bolsonaro government has […]
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