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, by TARLAU Rebecca
In May 2017, Left politics in Brazil were pretty bleak. It was almost a year after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), whose ousting from power brought along with it an onslaught of austerity policies. The violence in the countryside against rural (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
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 (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
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 (...)
, by MACHADO João
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 (...)
, by MACHADO João
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 (...)
, by PSOL
The Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) expresses its profound grief over the death of one of its leading members, comrade Paulo Piramba, who died last Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, and sends its condolences to his family, friends and comrades, and especially to his dear partner, Luciene (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
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, (...)
, by BETTO Frei, RAMOS Tarso Luis
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 (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
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 (...)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
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 (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
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 (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
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 (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
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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