How American leftists, including Mamdani's team, are being trained by Brazilian revolutionaries
New York Post · Stu Smith ·
For American leftists, MST’s organizing prowess is more than an object of distant admiration.
Last week, Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, scored an upset victory over right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro—son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro—in a presidential runoff. “Lula,” as he is known, is among Latin America’s most far-left presidents, with close ties to China and Iran.
Among the groups celebrating the win were members of the Landless Workers Movement — the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST — a left-wing social and agrarian-reform movement that had extensively mobilized on Lula’s behalf.
For American leftists, MST’s organizing prowess is more than an object of distant admiration. This past July, MST hosted delegations of some of America’s most energetic and influential activists in hopes of giving them an inside look at the methods that have helped make MST Latin America’s largest progressive mass movement.
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