Brasil de Fato

The countrywide general strike is against the proposed pension reforms that are likely to raise the average retirement age. A wide range of demands, including higher spending for education and a halt to privatization of refineries, are also being raised

In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape

While organizers promised to “bring the country to a halt,” turnout was lower than education budget cut protests

More than one million people took part in protests against education budget cuts and the pension reform

Workers, students, and professors are mobilizing with other sectors against dismantling of public education

Oswaldo Faustino on the law that abolished slavery in Brazil 131 years ago and the setbacks in racial equality efforts