Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable 16 years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed revolutionary (...)
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable sixteen years, longer than any party in Brazilian history. Rousseff began as part of an armed revolutionary (...)
On July 8, 2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, one of the principal militants of the Christian socialist left in Brazil, died in Sao Paulo at the age of 84.
From a wealthy background, Plinio started his militancy with the Catholic University Youth (JUC). A lawyer by profession, before the military (...)
João Machado was a leader of DS throughout the period in question. This text draws on parts of a written contribution to the Seminar dedicated to Daniel Bensaid, held at the IIRE in January 2012. However, Bensaid’s role in DS’s discussions was not singled out just for that reason – he really (...)
June 1971; the young Brazilian journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino, militant of the Fourth International, dies from torture, 23 years old. Now, his partner,
June 1971; the young Brazilian journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino, militant of the Fourth International, dies from torture, 23 years old. Now, (...)
Lula’s former special assistant opens up about four years of Workers Party governance, Lula’s reelection chances and the current conjuncture in Latin America.
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Four years ago, the landmark victory of Workers’ party candidate Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Brazil’s presidential election (...)
Brazil: A Country Marked by Social Apartheid According to megaspeculator George Soros in a press statement some months before the October 2002 presidential election in Brazil, financial markets make today’s presidential elections and, therefore, a leftist candidate would be unable to win in (...)
Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has, in the course of the past 20 years, developed a politics of class independence while accumulating a quantity of experiences in social struggles and municipal government, notably through ’participatory democracy’. These founding principles are being flouted in the (...)
The widespread protest against the impunity, five years after the event, of the military police responsible for the 1996 massacre of nineteen Brazilian landless peasants who were occupying a road in Eldorado dos Carajas has once again drawn the attention of international opinion to the Landless (...)
Review: The Workers Party and Democratization in Brazil, by Margaret E. Keck, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 315.
This is the first major scholarly study of the Brazilian Workers Party. Drawing on documentary source material as well as on extensive interviews the (...)
Review: Without Fear of Being Happy, by Emir Sader and Ken Silverstein, New York, London: Verso, 1991.
A red star is rising over Brazil, a brand new star of hope that owes very little to the ill-starred “really existing socialism”: the Brazilian Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the (...)
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