Gaining more than the necessary two-thirds majority of the 513 deputies in Brazil’s Congress the constitutional coup by the reactionary and corrupt right-wing parties took a major leap forward on the Read more...

After a phase in which populist and Bolivarian movements gained strength and won government office in several Latin American countries, there is now a new development. Read more...

In June 2013, the masses took to the streets of Brazil to protest at increases in fares on public transport. Read more...

In the face of recent protests and the general political situation, the Brazilian left faces a dilemma. Read more...

For years we have been reading that water is becoming so scarce on a worldwide scale that in the course of the 21st-century wars could be fought over it. Read more...

The first round of the Brazilian presidential election on October 5 produced only one surprise. Read more...

The remaining months of the year 2014 will be very important politically for Brazil. Read more...

What began as relatively small demonstrations in São Paulo and, a little later, in Rio de Janeiro, became within two weeks the largest protests Brazil has seen for two decades. Read more...

On the 16th of July, 2008, the Lula administration enacted the law No. Read more...

Fire fighters in the state of Rio de Janeiro have been organising protests for half a year. They organised several demonstrations and protests and in September they set up a camp in front of the parliament building in downtown Rio. So what is their struggle about? Read more...

At the same time that businessmen and bankers were crying on each others' shoulders at the World Economic Forum (WEF), over 100,000 activists have gathered together in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil for the ninth World Social Forum (WSF). Under the often repeated slogan of "Another World is Possible", the WSF 2009 is expected to counter the world economic crisis with alternative development models. Read more...

The Brazilian presidential elections on 1 October saw the surprise failure of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to win outright. Lula, an ex-car worker, is the historic leader of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores -Workers’ Party), the reformist party that has the support of the mass of the Brazilian working class. That he will win the second round on 29 October is now far from certain. Read more...

In October 2002, Lula was heralded as Brazil’s first “worker president", just 20 years after the founding of his Workers’ Party (PT). But after less than 20 months into his term, he is provoking strikes, imprisoning landless peasants and expelling members of his own parliamentary delegates. Keith Harvey asks what went wrong? Read more...

In the middle of December the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) Directorate voted by 55 to 27 to expel four members of the PT parliamentary group for daring to vote against the PT government's attacks on state employees' pensions. Read more...

Luis Inacio da Silva’s (Lula) last campaign rally before the first voting began on 6 October was held before an audience of the industrial workers of Sao Paolo, where, as a metal worker and union leader, he led a series of illegal strikes 25 years ago. Read more...

Criticism of the PT’s moves to the right has come from both inside and outside the party. The Socialist Democracy current (DS) and its journal Em Tempo represents “the tendency of the Fourth International supporters in the PT", part of the same international grouping as the French LCR. Read more...

Sem-terra, the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), burst onto the political scene in the 1980s. It was a response to a decade or more of rapid change in Brazilian agriculture. Read more...

Colourful banners, giant puppets, drummers, samba bands, dancers and songs on the streets of Brazil. No, not Carnival in Rio but the third World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre last month. Read more...

A Liga pela Quinta Internacional não vê Lula enquanto um socialista, mas os trabalhadores e camponeses devem votar em Lula com o fim de por em prática as suas exigências, expondo-o a uma pressão vinda de baixo. Read more...

What the Brazilian left says about the Lula phenomenon Read more...

The League for the Fifth International does not think that Lula is a socialist, but workers and peasants should vote for him in order to force through their demands and expose him to pressure from below Read more...

Lula and the party he leads have captured the imagination of millions of workers in Brazil. Keith Harvey assesses whether the PT can live up to their expectations as election victory beckons. Read more...