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Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’

         
 

Brazil: The Rise of Fascism?

Alfredo Saad-Filho | November 9, 2018

Brazil elected its new President on 28 October 2018 – the improbable, unspeakable fascist former army captain Jair Bolsonaro won against the affable unimpeachable democratic candidate of a left alliance led by the Workers’ Party (PT). Can a sophisticated young democracy, in the largest [...]

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Victory for the education sector strike

Anne Engelhardt | April 20, 2018

It might be too early, to speak of the year 2018 as the year of global education struggles. However, in this blog post co-written with Joeferson Almeida* we highlight that while (wildcat) strikes in the US have spread from one state to another, the staff in the education sector meanwhile in [...]

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Brazil’s political rupture and the left’s opportunity

Alfredo Saad-Filho | May 25, 2017

“Fora Temer – eleições diretas já!” / “Out with Temer – direct elections now!”

Amid meltdown in Brazil, the left calls for democracy, while the right must find ways to deny the people a voice.

The Brazilian Workers’ Party (Partido dos [...]

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The Crisis of Praxis of the Brazilian Left

Sabrina Fernandes | March 2, 2017

One notices an international trend around the strengthening and prominence of right-wing parties and and far-right groups. Recent electoral gains around the world point to the need for the left to regroup to deal with the challenges of this right-wing offensive, even if at least to contain [...]

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Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff: It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning

Alfredo Saad-Filho | March 26, 2016

The judicial coup against President Dilma Rousseff is the culmination of the deepest political crisis in Brazil for 50 years.

Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder and the tools of power [...]

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Democracy in the Crucible: Impeachment or Coup d’État in Brazil?

Alfredo Saad-Filho | February 2, 2016

As first posted on E-International Relations, Brazil is the world’s sixth largest economy, a prominent member of the G-20 and the BRICS group of large emerging countries, and the host of the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The country has also attracted attention since [...]

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Brazilian Democracy in Distress: Unpacking Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment

Alfredo Saad-Filho | December 17, 2015

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has opened impeachment procedures against President Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers’ Party (PT). This manoeuvre is led by an unholy coalition of opportunistic politicians, grubby businessmen, ravenous financiers, neoliberal journalists, bankrupt intellectuals, [...]

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Review of Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

Philip Roberts | December 11, 2015

The story of Brazil in the twentieth-century could easily be told simply through the lens of economic development. Existing almost as a colonial satellite of Europe, Brazil before 1930 was an agricultural exporter, selling coffee, sugar, cocoa and rubber to more developed nations. The vast [...]

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  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
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    • JAPE Submission Guidelines
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
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  • Contributors
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    • Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)
 

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