Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.
•Brunna Machado
Study exposes Brazilian dictatorship’s spying across Latin America
Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments.
•Tomas Castanheira
Lula fires health minister amid new wave of COVID-19 in Brazil
In the two years that Nísia Trindade led the ministry, her tenure was marked by the largest dengue outbreak in the country’s history and the deepening of the “herd immunity” policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Brazil faces threat of historic dengue outbreak in 2025
Brazil faces a potentially historic dengue outbreak due to government negligence, the reintroduction of serotype 3, and climate change, exacerbating the public health crisis.
•Fátima Ferrante
Enthusiasm for Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here intersects with burning political issues in Brazil
The film’s success is undoubtedly linked to a growing recognition that resolving the country’s acute political crisis is impossible without a serious reckoning with its history.
•Tomas Castanheira
On eve of Carnival, costume factory fire exposes deadly working conditions in Brazil
The frantic preparations for Carnival, driven by lucrative private investments, underly the dangerous working conditions at the factory.
•Eduardo Parati
Trump-Musk intervene against Brazil’s trial of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro for fascist coup attempt
Bolsonaro is seeking to benefit from the election of Trump, whose government has promoted fascist forces to establish governments of, by and for the oligarchy globally.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro indicted for fascist coup attempt
The evidence paints a sinister portrait of the military-fascist cabal that controlled the Brazilian state under the Bolsonaro government.
•Tomas Castanheira
I’m Still Here: A serious portrait of life under Brazil’s military dictatorship reaches mass audience
More than 4 million Brazilians have seen Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here, the 5th highest box office in the country’s history.
•Brunna Machado
Lula government prepares new attacks on Brazil’s workers and poor
After the PT’s collapse in last November’s municipal elections, the Lula government’s austerity measures threaten to pave the way for the extreme right’s return to power.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Study exposes COVID-19’s dire social impact in Brazil
The “Epicovid 2.0” study shows that the “impacts of the pandemic are great and long-lasting” and that it has “exacerbated historical health inequalities in Brazil.”
•Fátima Ferrante
Brazilian immigrants denounce “torture” on US deportation flight
The suffocation, chaining and beating of the Brazilian immigrants is comparable to treatment previously meted out during Washington's “war on terror.”
•Eduardo Parati
Financial markets and corporate media call for “Milei model” in Brazil
The pressure on the Lula government to deepen its austerity measures will intensify this year amid an escalation of multiple global crises and Trump’s return to the US presidency.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Workers Party marks second anniversary of coup attempt hailing Brazil’s military and condemning socialist revolution
If the fascists failed two years ago, they are already looking for their next and better prepared attempt under more favorable domestic and international conditions.
•Tomas Castanheira
Brazilian pseudo-lefts seek to divert campaign to cut workweek into dead end of parliamentary politics
In recent months, a campaign for the reduction of the workweek has gone viral on social media and received significant attention from Brazil's corporate media.
•Eduardo Parati
Brazilian Federal Police report covers up military’s role in January 8 coup attempt
The charges in the report led to the arrest, on December 14, of Bolsonaro’s running mate and former Army chief General Braga Netto.
•Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira
Arrest of top Brazilian general exposes military’s role in January 8 coup
The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.
•Guilherme Ferreira
UK Labour government deports thousands of migrants, raids ports and workplaces and arrests hundreds of alleged “people smugglers”
The Labour government is intensifying its brutal assault on migrants and asylum seekers with deportation flights, workplace raids, increased surveillance and more legislation.
•Steve James
Oppose Facebook’s shutdown of the WSWS in Portuguese page, an act of political censorship!
Facebook’s censorship of the “WSWS in Portuguese” page represents a dangerous precedent against socialist and independent political thinking throughout the world.
•Tomas Castanheira
Bolsonaro and top generals indicted for January 8 coup in Brazil
Sixty years after the US-backed 1964 military coup, revelations by the Federal Police have shown that Brazil was close to a new coup and the establishment of a dictatorship after Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat.
•Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira