Brazil
SUS: de-privatization is possible – and necessary

Researcher Leonardo Mattos describes how the private sector is infiltrating the public healthcare system in Brazil, fragmenting care provision.

COP30 agribusiness
Corporate capture undermines progress at COP30

COP30 was met with considerable criticism, including for its failure to meaningfully address the dangers the climate crisis poses to health.

Black Women March Brasilia
Over 300,000 marched in the Black Women’s March in Brasília for reparations and an end to racism

Over 300,000 women marched in Brasília on November 25 and launched a manifesto denouncing colonialism and demanding reparatory policies

Bolsonaro arrested and in preventative detention months after conviction for coup attempt

According to Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ decision, Bolsonaro attempted to break his ankle monitor in the early hours of Saturday

MST Global Climate March
70,000 people march in Belém for climate justice

The march was part of a historic gathering that gives a voice to the people who were not heard in the official COP30 spaces

boat parade with 200 vessels navigating the waters of the Guajará Bay
30,000 people from 62 countries participating in COP30 People’s Summit in Belém

At the opening of the event, 1,300 landless peasants marched towards a boat parade with 200 vessels navigating the waters of the Guajará Bay.

MST COP30 protest
COP 30’s Agrizone showcases the very companies responsible for the environmental crisis

Embrapa’s event at the Climate Conference is sponsored by giants such as Bayer, Nestlé, and Syngenta, accused of practices that exacerbate socio-environmental damage

COP30
COP30 takes place in Brazil, seeking to prevent “climate collapse”

The meeting has been filled with warnings and urgent calls to action from more than 50 heads of state.

Far right seizes on Rio police massacre, turning deadly raid into “electoral triumph”

Professor Ignacio Cano warns that “the far right is rallying around this operation” ahead of upcoming elections

Rio de Janeiro police massacre
Brazilian lawmaker from the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement demands investigation of “planned massacre” that left 121 dead

The lawmaker states that Governor Cláudio Castro’s operation was “a massacre carried out in secret” and calls for an independent forensic investigation

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva
Amid tension between Venezuela and the US, Lula criticizes “foreign interventions in Latin America”

Washington has launched a “counter-narcotics operation” with seven warships in international waters in the Caribbean.

MST leader Venezuela solidarity
Brazil’s MST will organize internationalist brigades to support Venezuela in the case of a US invasion

The leader of MST compares the initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s