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Brazil apart : 1964 - 2019
\"What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, under the Workers' Party between 2003 and 2016, Brazil was 'the theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major state'. Bucking the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism, former steelworker Luiz Inïcio Lula da Silva swept aside the broken promises of the Cardoso years to invest in social transfers, defying the vituperations of the Brazilian press to become the most popular ruler of the age. But in a second spectacular reversal, a parliamentary coup d'ïtat against Lula's successor - backed by the Armed Forces and a youthful New Right -has been consolidated by Bolsonaro's 2018 capture of the Planalto. With Lula, the PT's lodestar, now behind bars, a weighing up of his legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed. Brazil Apart is the leading English-language account of these remarkable upheavals, by one of our foremost observers of the Brazilian scene. Perry Anderson provides an unforgettable reading of Brazil's serpentine politics and social transformations, with commentary on the key Lusophone analysts of Lulismo, left economist Andrï Singer and Marxist sociologist Chico de Oliveira\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil
This book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers' Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of Bolsonaro neofascism.
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Cynical citizenship : gender, regionalism, and political subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
\"This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power. The author explores the ways community leaders make sense of official notions of citizenship and how gender, politics, and regional identities shape these interpretations. Junge further examines the implications of leaders' deep ambivalence toward normative participation discourses for how we theorize and study participatory democracy, citizenship, and political subjectivity in Brazil and beyond.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil
While scholars, activists and pundits from around the world have heralded the Lula years as a breakthrough for poverty reduction and the forthcoming emergence of Brazil as a dynamic economic superpower, many of their counterparts in the country as well as a number of Brazilianists elsewhere, have expressed great disappointment.
Tracing back the trajectory of Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT), Hernán F. Gómez Bruera explores how holding national executive public office contributed decisively to a pragmatic shift away from the party's radical redistributive and participatory platform, earning the approbation of international audiences and criticisms of domestic progressives. He explains why a unique party, which originally promoted a radical progressive agenda of socio-economic redistribution and participatory democracy, eventually adopted an orthodox economic policy, formed legislative alliances with conservative parties, altered its relationship with social movements and relegated the participatory agenda to de sidelines.
Touching on multiple dimensions, from economic policy and land reform to social policy, this book offers a distinct explanation as to why progressive parties of mass-based origin shift to the center over time and alter their relationships with their allies in civil society. Written in a clear and accessible style and featuring an enormous wealth of firsthand accounts from party leaders at all levels and within different factions, Gómez Bruera offers much needed new insights into why progressive parties alter their discourses and strategies when they occupy executive public office.
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Brazil under the workers' party : continuity and change from Lula to Dilma
\"This edited collection interprets and assesses the transformation of Brazil under the Workers' Party. It addresses the extent of the changes the Workers' Party has brought about and examines how successful these have been, as well as how continuity and social change in Brazil have affected key domains of economy, society, and politics. Looking at the factors which drive transformation in a dynamic Brazilian society, this study offers a valuable insight into the paradoxes and debates which emerge when looking at Brazil as a changing country during the past twenty years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Inventing an Internationalist Left for the New Century: Insights from Twentieth-Century German and Russian Marxism
The social and political pressures that caused the breakup of the Brazilian left during the first government of Lula and the Workers' party raised strategic questions on an international level for all anticapitalist movements. When grassroots labor and popular parties take power, should the socialist forces be on the side of government or in opposition? Similar challenges presented themselves 100 years ago, although of course with numerous differences, in Germany for the left of Rosa Luxemburg and the Social Democratic party and in Russia for Lenin and the Bolsheviks, when the problems were first to separate themselves from the Second International and then to identify themselves with respect to the governments of Ebert/Scheidermann in Berlin and Kerensky in Petrograd.
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From Equality to Opportunity: Transformations in the Discourse of the Workers' Party in the 2002 Elections
Brazil's 2002 presidential elections brought to power Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Worker's party—PT) and a former union leader with a markedly leftist political trajectory. An examination of the PT's discourse throughout the 2002 campaign, as evidenced in the free political advertising programs that represent the main form of contact between candidates and voters in Brazil, reveals the \"professionalization\" of Lula's communication. An integral part of the \"practical\" shift of his political strategy, this professionalization punctuated a long process of accommodating the political establishment, in effect burying the radical novelty that the PT had stood for. In its origins, the party discourse fed on the lived experience of workers and the daily battles of social movements. This is the feature that was lost in 2002, when the discourse of Lula and the PT was molded to the dominant political discourse in both form and content.
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