Brazil

Great Brazilian election result

Heloisa Helena, the presidential candidate for the Party of Socialism and Freedom (P-Sol), got 6.8% of the vote - over 6.5 million people.

This is a fantastic result for the Brazilian left, indicating that the socialists expelled from the Workers Party (PT) have managed to regroup significant forces and establish themselves as a serious national force.

Mobilisations to tackle the failure of Lula's government

The Brazilian landless movement (MST) is to launch a series of mobilisations this year after criticising the failures of the Lula government.

MST leader João Pedro Stédile said that after two years of Lula’s government, agrarian reform continues at a snail’s pace, mainly because of the neo-liberal economic policies of the government

Brazilian strike wave

Workers’ strikes across Brazil are winning wage rises after years of declining purchasing power.

More than 100,000 metalworkers in ABC, an industrial district in Sao Paulo where major steel, auto and other heavy industry is located, have begun to hold a series of stoppages in companies that refuse to agree to a 9.57% pay rise.

New socialist party in Brazil

A new socialist party has been founded in Brazil, headed by militants expelled from the Workers' Party (PT). Below is an abridged translation announcing the formation of the party.


The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (P-SOL) was founded at a conference in Brasília on 5 and 6 June attended by 750 representatives from 22 states. Its initial impulse was given by the parliamentarians Heloísa Helena, Babá, Luciana Genro and João Fontes, the radicals who opposed the leaders of the PT and their government serving national and international capital, the bankers and the landowners, whose measures attack the rights and interests of working people.