the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
May 18, 2026
This article is translated from the May 15 issue, #3015 of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the paper of the Trotskyist group of that name active in France.
In Brazil, Zé Maria—president of the United Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, a Trotskyist party), labor activist, and organizer of the metalworkers’ strikes in 1978 under the dictatorship—was sentenced on April 28 to two years in prison. He had given a speech denouncing the Israeli government and the military’s crimes in Palestine, and had affirmed his solidarity with the Palestinian people.
His conviction is intended to silence those who denounce the bloody and colonialist policies pursued by Israeli governments for the past 75 years. More broadly, it is also an attempt to intimidate everyone who opposes the crimes of imperialism.
Lutte Ouvrière affirms its support for Zé Maria, and protests against this unjustified conviction.