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  • Stédile criticized the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which he described as having revived the “coup offensive” against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. - Mauro Ramos

    Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement organizes internationalist brigades to support Venezuela in case of U.S. invasion

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on October 17, 2025 by ADELE ROBICHEZ, JOSÉ EDUARDO BERNARDES AND LARISSA BOHRER (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Oct 20, 2025)

    Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

  • Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. is one of the forum participants and granted an exclusive interview to BdF - Foto: Divulgação/@valdaidiscussionclub

    The U.S. is ‘involuntarily’ helping to unite the BRICS, says economist

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on October 3, 2025 by Serguei Monin (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Oct 07, 2025)

    In an interview with BdF, Paulo Nogueira Jr. analyzes the transformation of the international order to multipolarity.

  • Representatives of the Cuban govern with the Chinese ambassador to Cuba - Embaixada da China em Cuba

    China donates 70 tons of equipment to Cuba to restore its electric system

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on December 31, 2024 by Gabriel Vera Lopes (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Jan 03, 2025)

    Equipment such as radiators and engines were sent to the Caribbean island to promote energy transition.

  • In 2023, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest dropped to pre-Bolsonaro levels. - FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR / AFP

    Brazil stopped deforestation in the Amazon, but ‘the point of no return’ is still close

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on September 5, 2023 by Murilo Pajolla (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2023)

    In 40 years, Amazon rainforest lost an area equivalent to France; at this rate, catastrophe is imminent, say scientists.

  • "We have a large inventory of historical, material and symbolic debts, so well represented in the ceremony of handing over the presidential sash and in the iconic ascent of the ramp of the Planalto Palace" - Foto: Tânia Rego/Agência Brasil

    100 days of Lula’s presidency: what has changed in Brazil since January 1st?

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on April 10, 2023 by Brasil de Fato Desk (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2023)

    New directions in politics generate expectations due to the contrast to Bolsonaro’s management.

  • Petro, Lula, and Maduro agreed upon convening a South American summit for the Amazon rainforest - Reprodução

    The environment may be the number one issue in the new agenda among progressive South American

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on November 24, 2022 by Lucas Estanislau (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2022)

    Petro’s, Lula’s, and Maduro’s positions show South Americans are united about the Amazon; it may reintegrate Venezuela.

  • MST leader João Pedro Stedile sat with Brasil de Fato radio interviewers last week to talk about Brazil's political scenario : José Eduardo Bernardes

    “Activists shall not fear, we are fighting for justice” – MST’s Stedile

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on January 8, 2019 by Leonardo Fernandes and Nina Fideles (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2019)

    Landless leader told Brasil de Fato that, despite threats, MST will not back off from social struggle.

  • “In the first round, Bolsonaro was hiding. Now it’s only two candidates now, so it will become clear that there are two [opposing] projects” : Rafael Stedile

    Stedile on Brazil elections

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on October 9, 2018 by João Pedro Stedile (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2018)

    MST leader on the presidential race between Workers’ Party’s Fernando Haddad and far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Theotonio dos Santos

    Landless Workers’ movement leader: “Lula will be freed if people take to the streets”

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on April 6, 2018 by Sáo Paulo (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2018)

    MST leader João Pedro Stédile says Lula’s imprisonment is “yet another chapter in the coup”

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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