TENS of thousands of people took to the streets of Sao Paolo last night in Brazil’s first major demonstration since far-right hatemonger Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential election victory.

The protest was organised by the Brazil Popular Front, a federation of hundreds of social movement organisations, including the Landless Workers Movement (MST), the Urban Homeless Workless Movement, trade unions and student groups.

The front promised to step up resistance to the rise of fascism in Brazil after the election of the former army captain, who has promised the biggest purge of the left in the country’s history.