Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has continuously underplayed the coronavirus crisis, calling it nothing but 'sniffles' but as the death rises, Matheus Lock explains how and why the pandemic reveals the flaws within his leadership that may prove fatal.
Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, has been one of Europe's most influential Marxists for the past 30 years. In this interview, translated from Portuguese, he discusses Jair Bolsonaro and the global return of the right.
With election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil, Antonio Negri reflects on the resurgent global far-right.
Rodrigo Nunes discusses Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil, Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian Worker's Party, and the nature of the contemporary far right, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right politician, has won the Brazilian Presidential election, beating the PT's Fernando Haddad. During the campaign, Bolsonaro repeatedly threatened not just the PT and the Brazilian left, but the foundations of Brazil's democracy. In this report from Brazil, Conor Foley asks what Bolsonaro's victory could mean for the future of the country.
The far right Jair Bolsonaro looks set to win tomorrow's election in Brazil. Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that his improbable rise represents the growth of an authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil and across the world. If he's elected president, Brazilian democracy could collapse.
Politicans around the world associate themselves with popular sports, but in South America the relationship between politicians and football has often been much stronger than that.
An examination of the recent strike by Brazilian education workers in opposition to proposed pension reform.
Anti-corruption discourse in Latin America has acted to protect the system, as a substitute for class struggle.
