As of June 5, Brazil is reporting 614,941 confirmed coronavirus cases and 34,021 Covid-19 deaths, overtaking Italy for third place in total official deaths behind only the U.K. and the U.S. However, […]
Guilherme Boulos: How to stop the rise of fascism in Brazil
Frieda Afary, Sara Abbas and Yasser Munif: Standing with Black Lives Matter across the world
Opposing Police Brutality, Militarism, and All Forms of State Violence This statement was written for World Without Prisons, the website of the Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition. Republished here by No Borders News. —– […]
Latin American and Caribbean Educators in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The following statement by a large coalition of Latin American and Caribbean educators was first published at Otras Voces en Educación, an independent site dedicated to developing critical theory for educational change. […]
Alex De Jong: Minneapolis sparks BLM protest in Amsterdam
As of June 2, The Netherlands is reporting 46,647 confirmed coronavirus infections and 5,967 Covid-19 deaths, the seventh highest per capita rate in the world. And despite the countries reputation for strong […]
Ana Caravalhaes: Lessons from “The Battle of the Paulistas”
As of June 1, more than 30,000 Brazilians have died from Covid-19 according to official figures, soon to be second highest number in the world behind the United States. The real number […]
Gabriel Santos: What can Brazilian socialists learn from Minneapolis?
Brazil is a Black majority country. More African people were kidnapped and sold into slavery, which was not abolished until 1888, than any other country in the world — almost five million. […]
International open letter: Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazil and global health
As of May 29, Brazil is reporting 438.238 confirmed coronavirus infections and 26,754 Covid-19 deaths. As more than 1,000 people a day are dying, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro continues to flout social […]
Ana Carvalhaes: Brazil’s darkest hour requires anti-fascist unity
As of May 28, Brazil is reporting 411,821 confirmed coronavirus infections, and 25,598 Covid-19 deaths, figures which are believed to undercount deaths by at least 50 percent. Meanwhile, the political crisis is […]
Julia Cámara, Alex Merlo: Anticapitalistas, Podemos, and what comes after Covid-19 (video)
As of May 27, the Spanish State is reporting 236,259 confirmed coronavirus infections and 27,117 Covid-19 deaths, a per capita casualty rate almost twice that of the United States. For the decade […]
Marie-Hélène Duverger: France opens schools, Covid-19 stalks the halls
As of May 26, France is reporting 145,279 confirmed coronavirus infections and 28,457 Covid-19 deaths, a per capita rate 30 percent higher than the United States. Despite the pandemic, French President Emmanuel […]
