More than 50 political parties and NGOs gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to support Venezuela, Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon in the face of U.S. sanctions and interference.
Under the motto “international solidarity against imperialism and for the sovereignty of peoples,” the meeting began with a tribute to the Iranian martyrs who fell in the war imposed by Israel against the Persian country last June.
The delegates denounced unilateral coercive measures against Iran, Venezuela, Yemen, and Cuba, and reaffirmed their support for the resistance of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples against the Zionist occupation by Israel.
The summit concluded with a strong joint declaration denouncing sanctions against Venezuela and Iran as crimes against humanity and reaffirming the duty to support the Palestinian resistance. Delegates accused the United States and its allies of causing instability in West Asia and Latin America and demanded the immediate lifting of the embargo on Cuba and Venezuela.
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This is a mighty task that I’m not capable of doing right now lol. I’ll save this comment to remind me when I have more time.
As for anti-imperialist/communist orgs that deserve more attention, we have:
The siblings MST and MTST (homeless worker’s movement). They range internally from revolutionary to reformist, and are in the process of overcoming their notable pro-Lula bias. MST has their own newspaper called Brasil de Fato, with an English section.
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/editoria/english/brazil/
Partido Comunista Revolucionário is a ML vanguard party with some Hoxhaist tendencies. They operate fairly large movements and collectives, including their electoral organization Unidade Popular. Their central apparatus is the party newspaper A Verdade (as in Pravda), which sadly does not have an English section. Internationally, they’re a CIPOML party.
https://averdade.org.br/
Partido Comunista Brasileiro Revolucionário is an ML split from the old PCB that is undergoing reconstruction. As a new party they tend to be rather eclectic in theory and disorganized in action. Their central apparatus is the newspaper O Futuro, but they also have something like a theory journal called Em Defesa do Comunismo with longer texts and a debate tribune. Occasionally they have translated articles on the international section. They have no electoral register and internationally are affiliated with Solidnet.
https://jornalofuturo.com.br/ https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/
There’s also A Nova Democracia on the maoist front, strongly affiliated with an armed MST split called Liga dos Camponeses Pobres.
https://anovademocracia.com.br/
And there’s also the reformist Partido Comunista do Brasil, which claims itself as ML. I think they might be relevant for users here as they’re the only party mentioned that considers China socialist. They are also strongly pro-Lula currently. Their newspaper is Vermelho. Despite my criticisms, they are mostly honest reformists, not to be confused with so-called “social-democrats” we’re all used to.
https://vermelho.org.br/