06/11/2018
The election at the end of October of President Bolsonaro in Brazil is analysed in the Marxist newspaper The Weekly Worker. The far right demagogue represents a threat to many groups in society, the paper argues, ranging from women through to Indigenous Brazilians, whose homeland in the ecologically important north of the country he has vowed to exploit. As LGBT groups have noted, his pronouncements against gender and sexual minorities have spurred a frenzy of attacks by his supporters including several murders, and the international campaign network AllOut.com has started a petition for the country's Supreme Court to protect the LGBT community. Meanwhile, the Weekly Worker notes that much of Bolsonaro's rhetoric is neo-fascist and nature, and questions whether his election will see country return to the dark days of its nineteen seventies dictatorship, where many people were murdered by the state. Meanwhile, another leftwing paper, Socialist Appeal, argues that the label fascism is not correct, stating “But the Brazilian working class has not been defeated. In fact, it has not yet started to move in any significant way.”
https://www.socialist.net/brazil-how-could-a-far-right-demagogue-win-the...
https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/47441/Brazilian+socialist+speaks+out++...
https://www.advocate.com/world/2018/10/31/brazils-lgbtq-activists-will-f...
