Battleground Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, the Military Dictatorship, & Fascism

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Diogo and Luiza, two professors from Brazil and members of “Professores Contra o Escola Sem Partido” (PCESP) join Breht to talk about the current state of Brazilian politics, the election of Bolsonaro, Fascism, Brazilian memory, the parallels between Brazil and the US, the importance of international solidarity, and what leftists abroad can do to assist our Brazilian comrades. It gets pretty emotional towards the end, but I hope you appreciate the love and value the discussion!

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www.facebook.com/contraoescolasempartido/

professorescontraoescolasempartido.wordpress.com

https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorescontraoEscolaSemPartido
twitter.com/profscontraoesp

Instagram: @profscontraoesp

Other Resources mentioned in the episode:

'What's happening in Brazil' (Thesis Eleven) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diap_PMN-p0
'Brazil's Ultra-Politics' https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/brazil-election-fascism-bolsonaro-haddad-pt
Big business is salivating over fascism triumph in Brazil https://www.truthdig.com/articles/big-business-is-salivating-over-fascisms-triumph-in-brazil/
Here's a picture of of the shop we mentioned with the statue of liberty http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-auFXW1yaWu8/VYDcl-pvKrI/AAAAAAACBRU/W0g4ZQaMRuc/s1600/havan.jpg

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your trusted host and comrade
0:10.8	Red O'Shea and today we are doing an interview with Geogo and Luisa from teachers against
0:18.1	party free education the PCESP in Brazil. We're going to be talking about Brazilian politics,
0:24.0	Brazilian memory, the military dictatorship and of course the election of the fascist Bolsonaro.
0:30.4	I do want to give a shout out before we get to the episode to Guy Lermet. He is a member of our
0:36.8	Patreon and was the person who allowed this entire interview to happen in the first place. He sent
0:42.9	me the email to reach out to this organization and as you'll hear in this interview it gets very
0:47.8	emotional. The sort of solidarity and the emotive force especially towards the end of this interview is
0:53.0	incredibly powerful. It's really moving for me and for our guests and really I hope highlights
0:58.4	the internationalism and the solidarity that we're dedicated to here at Revolutionary Left Radio.
1:03.9	So thanks to Guy Lermet for hooking up this interview and thanks to Geogo and Luisa from the
1:09.5	teachers against party free education not only for coming on and educating us about what's happening
1:14.1	in Brazil but for their courageous work in Brazil as teachers who are you know being cracked down
1:19.8	on under the new regime. So with all of that said let's go ahead and just go straight to the interview.
1:37.1	Hi my name is Geogo and from Brazil I'm a history teacher here in Brazil and I'm part of the
1:44.0	a movement called Teachers Against Party Free Education. Just to clarify I'm the one with the bad English
1:52.3	she's the one with the awesome English so you have no pressure on me at this moment. You have
1:59.7	the best of both worlds. Beautiful. That's awesome. And I'm Luisa. I'm also a teacher here in Brazil.
2:08.0	Also a member of the movement and very happy to be here talking to you guys.
2:15.1	Yeah we're very very happy to have you as we were talking before we started recording. I think
2:19.9	you know us in the US have especially on the left have been watching Brazil very closely over
2:25.7	the last few weeks especially and there's lots of interesting parallels between our countries but
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