Monthly Archives: September 2015

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Corteo del 15 ottobre: poliziotto indagato per falsa testimonianza

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L’assoluzione di quattro degli imputati per il processo del corteo del 15 ottobre ha portato all’accusa di falsa testimonianza contro un agente di polizia. Sono in effetti emerse numerose incongruenze e palesi menzogne nel verbale che accompagnava l’arresto di quattro ragazzi che avevano partecipato al corteo dell’autunno del 2011 durante il quale migliaia di giovani si erano scontrati con la polizia fino a notte fonda.

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Domingos Passos – the Brazilian Bakunin

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We do not know the precise year of Passos’s birth (it was probably towards the end of the 19th century), but, from the books of Edgar Rodrigues, we know that he was born in Rio de Janeiro state. We find his first appearance in social struggles of the time as a UOCC delegate at the 3rd Brazilian Workers’ Congress (1920) at which he was elected as travel secretary for the Brazilian Workers’ Confederation (COB). Passos had been selected for that post because he stood out in the ranks of the organised proletariat on account of his intellect and oratorical gifts which he had honed in the day to day struggles of his trade.

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