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  • João Pedro Stedile

    Neoliberalism and finance capital have been defeated by coronavirus

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 15, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The member of MST’s national board analyzes the current international and Brazilian contexts in wake of the coronavirus pandemic

  • Joao Pedro Stédile

    Joao Pedro Stédile: “Venezuela is extremely important because it is the battle of this century”

    Originally published: Translated on March 4, 2019 by Internationalist 360 (more by Translated)  |

    It is a fundamental task for the class struggle that we succeed in liberating Lula so that he becomes the principal spokesman, he is the one who has the capacity to help mobilize the masses against the system and the project of the extreme right.

  • Protestors Rally Against Brazilian Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro

    The economic and social plan of the Bolsonaro government

    Originally published: Socialist Project on December 28, 2018 (more by Socialist Project)  |

    “Reformed” captain Jair Bolsonaro already committed to the “market” the handover of all decisions in the economic area to large capital, under the hegemony of financial capital and foreign corporations (as personified in Paulo Guedes and his Chicago Boys, including Levy in the Brazilian Development Bank-BNDES).

  • Brazil's Landless Workers Movement under Attack | NewsClick newsclick.in

    We defend the Constituent Assembly

    Originally published: Jornal Brasil on July 2018 (more by Jornal Brasil)

    The national leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), the economist João Pedro Stédile, is at the frontline for the liberation of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He predicts that if Lula’s candidacy is prevented, a political crisis will become even more acute.

  • Facing Off: The Integration of Capital v. the Integration of Peoples in the Americas

    João Pedro Stédile

    João Pedro Stédile, second from left, speaks to the Peasant Movement of Papay in Haiti.  Photo: Beverly Bell. João Pedro Stédile is an economist, co-founder and co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil, and leader among Latin American social movements.  He gave the following talk to hundreds of Haitian farmers at the 40th […]

  • Empire against Democracy

    Frei Betto and João Pedro Stédile

      After the Second World War, from which the Allied forces emerged victorious, the government of the United States sought to make the most of its military victory.  It structured the Assembly of the United Nations to be led by a Security Council composed of the seven most powerful countries, with veto power over decisions […]

  • MST: 25 Years of Stubbornness

    João Pedro Stédile

      In January 1984, mass movements began to rise again in Brazil.  The working class was reorganizing, accumulating organic forces.  Underground parties, such as the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), etc., were already in the streets.  We had won only a partial amnesty, but a majority of exiles had returned. […]

  • International Capital Dominates Brazilian Agriculture

    João Pedro Stédile

      The Movement of Financial Capital In recent years, there has been an intensive, continuous process of concentration and centralization of corporations operating and controlling the entire production process of global agriculture. Concentration is the concept used in political economy to explain the movement of large corporations to combine, accumulate, and become large groups.  Thus, […]

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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