Communiqué about the withdraw of organisations from CAB and the maintenance of this national anarchist-specifist project in Brazil. read full story / add a comment

This document was produced by the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination [Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira] (CAB), a group of anarchist organizations working collaboratively across Brazil. It is translated and reprinted here with the permission of our sister organizations participating in CAB. The document has also served as an anchor point in recent discussions on feminism within Black Rose / Rosa Negra. We hope that by making this text available in English for the first time, we can increase its reach and impact. Translation by Enrique Guerrero-López read full story / add a comment

The current Brazilian political scenario demands a lot of lucidity and coolness from all the people’s fighters and their analysis of reality. We, the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination, modestly seek to make our contribution to the understanding of the convulsive political-social scenario, the main line of which is in the legal-parliamentary coup that toppled Dilma Rousseff from government. We have recently experienced the so-called exhaustion of the New Republic pact of 1988. Said pact maintained the social exclusion of those at the bottom of society, while guaranteeing minimal legal rights, in a coalition involving bourgeois politicians, businessmen, the military and part of the reformist sectors of the left. The construction of the Brazilian state, however, has always been closer to the interests of the imperialist powers of the day than to the majority of the population. A penal state for the poor has always been the norm for the institutions of bourgeois democracy. The PT governments, since Lula, have increased the criminal machinery of public order with a whole legislative-judicial apparatus that reproduced the super-incarceration of blacks and the poor and the repressive apparatus that attacks social struggles. The pact of class conciliation was broken and collaborationism ripped open to give way to the aggressive agenda of financial capitalism over social rights, partial freedoms and public goods – which were historic victories of the popular movement. [Português] [Castellano] [Italiano] [Ελληνικά] read full story / add a comment

Σε αυτή την στιγμή του πόνου, της θλίψης και του μίσους, θέλουμε να δώσουμε όλη μας την αλληλεγγύη στις οικογένειες των Μαριέλ και Άντερσον, τους άνδρες συντρόφους και τις γυναίκες συντρόφισσές τους στο PSOL, και σε όλους τους άνδρες και τις γυναίκες που αγωνίζονται καθημερινά κατά τη γενοκτονία των μαύρων ανθρώπων. read full story / add a comment

Text by the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira, CAB) on the current situation in Brazil. [Português] [Castellano] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

In the first half of 2014, the struggles of diverse categories of workers were taken to the streets to the dismay of bosses and governors. The powerful’s counterattack was supported with the help of the mainstream media, which tried to criminalise the protests and demobilise the strugglers. This happened before, during and after the World Cup – a time in which the news sought to legitimise the violent actions of the repressive apparatus of the state and its leaders. Following this came the political persecutions and arrests of dozens of protestors in an authoritarian manner, violating democratic means and human rights. [Português] read full story / add a comment