Taliria Petrone
Talíria Petrone Soares is a leader of PSOL, which "was formed in 2004 after Brazil’s Workers' Party (PT), purged its left wing in an effort to pass an austerity-style pension reform. The purged activists regrouped as PSOL."[1]
PSOL Meets with American Members of Congress
On August 14, 2023, Fernanda Melchionna posted an image with Nydia Velazquez, Celia Xakriaba, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Samia Bomfim and Taliria Petrone on Facebook:[2]
- "Very important the support of the US congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in defending our mandates. Preliminary reports of the representations against left-wing MPs begin reading on Wednesday at the Ethics Council. Ocasio-Cortez is in Brazil with a delegation of American congressmen who today participated in a technical meeting at the Commission of the Amazon and Native Peoples. She spoke about the need to defeat the extreme right in the world, including defending feminist, left-wing and fighting mandates."
It was reported at The Nation on August 22, 2023 in an article titled "AOC and Democratic Colleagues Learn Lessons From Latin-America’s Resurgent Left"[3] that the tour included Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velazquez of New York, Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar of Texas, and Maxwell Frost of Florida, along with Senator Bernie Sanders’s chief of staff, Misty Rebik. The trip was sponsored by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Repeated Call for arrest of Bolsonaro
On February 1, 2023, PSOL leaders called for the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil.[4]
- PSOL deputies asked this Monday (2/1) that Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, decree the preventive detention of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for "encouraging criminal and terrorist acts".
Signatories included Taliria Petrone:[5]
- Juliano Medeiros, president of PSOL, and by deputies Guilherme Boulos (SP), Samia Bomfim (SP), Fernanda Melchionna (RS), Ivan Valente (SP), Vivi Reis (PA), Aurea Carolina (MG), Glauber Medeiros (RJ), Luiza Erundina (SP), Taliria Petrone (SP), Erika Hilton (SP), Tarcisio Motta (SP), Chico Alencar (SP), Henrique Vieira (RJ), Celia Xakriaba (MG) and Luciene Cavalcanti (SP).
On February 15, 2023, the PSOL appeal was "reinforced" (translated):[6]
- "The PSOL bench in the Chamber of Deputies delivered, on Wednesday (15/2), the, a letter to the Minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes with almost 300 thousand signatures collected by the acronym, to reinforce a request for pre-trial detention to former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), which was filed in the STF on January 2.
- "In addition to pre-trial detention, PSOL also calls for some precautionary measures against Bolsonaro: breach of telephone and telematic secrecy; and; search and seizure of evidence and documents to avoid any kind of destruction or concealment of criminal indications, seizure of your passport and suspension of your social networks."
Praise for Karl Marx
On May 5, 2020, Taliria Petrone posted on X (translated):[7]
- Birthday of the immortal Karl Marx. The man who revealed the secret of capitalist exploitation, showing that the boss's profit is stolen work, not paid to the worker. That the class struggle is the driving force of History and that capitalism had a beginning and will have an end. Long live Karl Marx!
References
- ↑ LEAVING THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL WOULD BE A BIG MISTAKE (accessed January 3, 2023)
- ↑ Fernanda Melchionna Facebook Post dated August 14, 2023 (accessed April 7, 2024)
- ↑ AOC and Democratic Colleagues Learn Lessons From Latin-America’s Resurgent Left (accessed April 7, 2024)
- ↑ PSOL asks Alexandre to arrest Bolsonaro for 'encouraging criminal acts' (accessed January 2, 2023)
- ↑ EXCELENTÍSSIMO SENHOR DOUTOR MINISTRO RELATOR ALEXANDRE DE MORAES DO EGRÉGIO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL (accessed January 2, 2023)
- ↑ PSOL delivers 300 thousand signatures to the STF calling for Bolsonaro's arrest (accessed April 8, 2024)
- ↑ Taliria Petrone X Post dated May 5, 2020 (accessed April 7, 2024)