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Beginning last year, student and teachers unions diverted the fight against Bolsonaro’s attacks on education towards Lula’s election; today they are covering for the successive austerity measures of the new Workers Party (PT) government.

Teachers union and pseudo-left embrace São Paulo government’s herd immunity policy With São Paulo and all of Brazil facing the threat of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, right-wing Governor João Doria (PSDB-Brazilian Social Democracy Party) last week announced new measures to lift restrictions on nonessential services. Also planned this week are measures that increase the maximum number of students in classrooms. Even in the face of this open policy to subordinate human lives to priv...

São Paulo teachers continue strike against deadly school reopenings despite union sabotage Teachers voted on Saturday, February 27, to continue their strike against the murderous reopening of public schools in São Paulo, the state with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil. The vote, carried out through virtual assemblies, came the day after Brazil reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic over a year ago. Despite the deadly impl...

April 2021 “Our main enemy, of course, in our own country, it is the regime of Putin and his friends with their billion-dollar fortunes. No war but a class war!” - read article... Solidarity call March 2021 We call on the international left to take an active stand against political repression in Russia and to protest the persecution of Anastasia Ponkina. - read article... Greece