I'm Susie Weizmann and this is Jacobin Radio and on

And on Jacobin Radio today, Wagner Mora, Brazilian actor known for his work in the Elite Squad Films and the Netflix series Narkos, joins us to talk about the

volatile political situation in Brazil where

Maria Lefranco, the popular leftist Rio City Councilor and her driver, were

assassinated on March 14th, sparking huge protests across Brazil.

Mariela Franco championed the poor in the favelas and was a harsh critic of President

Temmer's recent move to put the military in charge of security in Rio State where 154 people were

killed in January alone as a result of police action. We'll get Wagner Murra's

views and we'll talk to him about the film he's directing,

Marigela, about the Mayian revolutionary Marxist writer and guerrilla fighter

Carlos Marigela whose theories about the cities as the source of rebellion have renewed relevance in the

Brazil of today.

We also talk to Pedro Paolo Saluth Bastos, professor of political economy at Campinas University in Brazil about the political

and economic situation in Brazil in the wake of escalating police violence and

the targeted assassination of Marilla Franco. We'll get Pedro Paulo's analysis of the political calculus beyond

urban security in the move by the highly unpopular President Timmer to put the military in

charge of security as well as the prospects for the left in the coming

election.

Plus we hear from Chris Phelps from the University of Nottingham.

He joins us to talk about the wider implications of the militant, creative, and historic month-long

strike of British University lecturers who've just reached a settlement after waging a sustained

an implacable strike that was joined by thousands, including the crucial and

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