Brazil's government must ally itself with the people or pay the price, said Joao Pedro Stedile, national coordination of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), a powerful social movement with deep roots in the South American nation that fights for land reform.
Pedro Stedile spoke to Brasil de FatoM amid the huge protest movement sweeping Brazilian cities, sparked by a rise in bus fares and fuelled by spending on big events such as 2014 World Cup while public services deteriorated.
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Activists from across the Venezuelan labour movement met last weekend for the country鈥檚 first ever Workers鈥 Congress, where workers discussed workplace democracy and the construction of socialism.
The congress, billed 鈥淚 Workers鈥 Congress: Balance and Challenges of Worker Control and Workers鈥 Councils for the Construction of Socialism鈥, was organised by the National Worker Control Movement and saw the participation of over fifty groups from factories across the country.
Jani Alam, a 25-year-old, is walking slow and painfully. Having slightly swollen feet, this 鈥渆xercise鈥 is the only treatment available from 60-year-old traditional doctor, Guramia Saiyid.
Both Alam and Saiyad are stateless refugees from the Rohingya ethnic minority from Arakan state in western Burma. They now live in Malaysia.
Saiyad has lived in the country for 11 years, while Alam has arrived four months ago.
鈥淚n the past months, dozens of refugees arrived almost every day,鈥 said 41-year-old Jamar Udin, a neighbor and also a Rohingya.
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