Overcrowding, shortage of doctors and lack of water: living through pandemic in São Paulo’s prisons
A report released on April 1 by the Public Defender of São Paulo describes the horrible conditions in prison amid the pandemic
Italian students protest education policy, Australia moves to ban Hamas and other stories
Today we look at student protests for safe and dignified education in Italy, Australia’s decision to outlaw Hamas, and more
Mexico’s Supreme Court ratifies order to halt cultivation of GMO corn and other stories
Today we look at a ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court upholding a ban on GMO corn, ongoing violence against protestors in Swaziland, and more
Brazil’s Supreme Court rules that Sérgio Moro was partial when convicting Lula
Minister Cármen Lúcia changed her vote from 2018 and flipped the ruling against the former judge Sérgio Moro
What’s at stake in Brazil’s municipal elections this Sunday
The first elections since Bolsonaro took office are marred by the pandemic and fragmentation within the left
Victims of reopening in Brazil: Stories of those who contracted COVID-19 going back to work
São Paulo begins a new phase of reopening, but flexibility has its victims, expert warns of infection rate increase
Reopening in São Paulo is sending “population to the slaughterhouse,” warns COVID-19 specialist
Domingos Alves questions the criteria used to allow the reopening, arguing that the decision goes against data
The human toll of COVID-19 in Brazil
The corona crisis has also brought to the forefront the crisis in Brazil’s healthcare system. The Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS -, Brazil’s publicly funded health system has been facing dire budget cuts over the past several years while the private system has been steadily growing.
Brazil’s right wing rallies against physical distancing
Amid government neglect and irresponsibility, social movements have reaffirmed that only the people will save the people.
15 years of the Florestan Fernandes National School
The MST school that was inaugurated on January 23, 2005 works with Marxist classics and popular education methods
On Black Awareness Day, Brazilians march for rights and the end of black genocide
Demonstrators took to the streets in several cities to celebrate black activists and a different project for society
From ‘Lula Livre’ to ‘F*ck the Police’, pride is political!
On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots LGBTQ prides across the Americas have taken on a very overtly political and radical stand, after years of being little more than apolitical spectacles
- Ambulance drivers and nurses strike in Croatia
- IRGC colonel assassinated in Tehran, Iran vows revenge
- Iraqi leftist poet Muthaffar al-Nawab dies aged 88
- First commercial flight in last six years takes off from Yemen’s Sanaa airport
- Cuba describes easing of US sanctions as “a limited step in the right direction”
