As of June 8, Brazil is reporting 691,758 confirmed coronavirus cases and 36,455 Covid-19 deaths, widely-understood to significantly undercount the pandemic’s real toll. Inspired by the anti-racist uprising in the United States, […]
Valerio Arcary: A victory in the streets of Brazil
Workers Inquiry Network: 50,000 protest police violence and state racism in Paris
As of June 6, France is reporting 153,055 confirmed coronavirus cases and 29,111 Covid-19 deaths, fifth highest in the world. Before the Covid-19 crisis, France was rocked by strikes and mass protests […]
Guilherme Boulos: How to stop the rise of fascism in Brazil
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, […]
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 […]
