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Breno Altman

Breno Altman is the director of the Opera Mundi website and Samuel magazine.

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Eduardo Sanovicz

Eduardo Sanovicz (1960-2023)

"A great friend and comrade, a brother in dreams and struggles, Eduardo Sanovicz, passed away this morning," says journalist Breno Altman.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Regarding Lula and relative democracy.

"Universalizing the concept of democracy is a historical crippling flaw, situated between the arsenal of bourgeois hegemony and surrender to liberal thought," says Breno Altman.

Vladimir Putin

Putin is doing the right thing.

"By recognizing the republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, Moscow is not expressing any inclination to yield to the expansionist ambitions of the US," writes Altman.

Jose Antonio Cast

Chile under neo-fascist threat

"One of the dilemmas for this broad-front solution is that it's not Pinochet's dictatorship that's on trial, as it was in 1990, for example, but the model created by the forces that succeeded the general. Will the fear of neo-fascism be enough to change who's in the dock?", writes Breno Altman.

Bolsonaro, Peter and the Wolf

Bolsonaro, Peter and the Wolf

"Because that's how, playing 'Peter and the Wolf,' like in the classic children's story, Bolsonaro controls the agenda and the movements of the other forces, even in moments when he is demoralized and his weakness is celebrated, lowering his guard while the captain takes a breather and prepares to do it all again."

How liberal ideology created imperialist humanism.

How liberal ideology created imperialist humanism.

"Over the last 80 years, the major capitalist countries have dedicated themselves to diluting the concept of imperialism, a central idea for revolutionary currents in understanding the global class struggle, replacing it with a vague democratic discourse capable of masking the geopolitical interests of belligerent powers and domesticating the left," writes journalist Breno Altman.