Anti-imperialist Protests and Actions in Recife, Brazil
Featured image: activists uphold the flag of the International Anti-imperialist League (AIL) in a protest in Recife.
On April 2, close to the 62nd anniversary of the coup d’etat by the fascist military regime in Brazil. Activists in Recife demonstrated and commemorated the combatants who fell in the struggle against the fascist military dictatorship.
A Nova Democracia (AND) reports that “demonstrators made speeches remembering the popular combatants who fell for the anti-fascist cause and they compared the political national situation of 2026 with the one in 1964, highlighting the progress of the popular struggles against the far right, in the service of Yankee imperialism in Brazil, and the decisive blows dealt against the imperialist cannibals by the peoples carrying national liberation struggles, as well as the Iranian and Palestinian peoples”.
Several organizations were present, including the International Anti-imperialist League (AIL), Collective Mangue Vermelho (MV), Movement Ventania, the Support Committee for the Landless Peasants’s Struggle in Barro Branco/Jaqueira, the Islamic Cultural Center Imam Sadeq, the Executive National Committee board of Pedagogy Students (ExNEPE), and the People’s Women’s Movement (MFP). The mobilization ended with anti-imperialist slogans and burning the Yankee and Zionist flag.
The Military Police attempted to intimidate the demonstrators, demanding the presence of the organizations’ “leaders” and the “people in charge” of the demonstration. But the demonstrators refused.
Additionally, following the call of the Forum Against Corporativization and Militarization (FACAM) for the action day against Operation Kagaar, AIL activist in Recife handed over more than 1,500 leaflets in the city center and carried a banner that reads “Down with Operation Kagaar!” and “Long Live the New Democratic Revolution in India!”
The passers-by supported and showed interest about what the activists explained, and they compared the struggle of the Indian people with the struggle of other oppressed peoples in the world, as well as condemning the oppressive cast system, and showing interest for the Dalit and Adivasi peasant struggle in the center of India.
A Nova Democracia is the source of all images used in the article.
Reports of the protest and actions can be read here:
