Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration
This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
Worker President Raises Workers’ Hopes in Brazil
On October 27, 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—lathe operator, metalworker, undisputed leader of the independent labor movement that emerged ...
Lula Win Raises Hopes in Brazil
São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista is a monument to money: The wide avenue is lined with the solid concrete and glass ...
Can Democracy Challenge Empire in Lula’s Brazil?
Since trade unionist Luiz Inácio lula da Silva won Brazil’s 2002 presidential elections, he has surprised his own supporters as ...
Brazil’s New Eye on the Amazon
The gleaming military installation rises from the patchy forests surrounding Belém, a city of one million people in Brazil’s eastern ...
Brazil: Neoliberal Decades Bring Down “Emerging Power
The historical period that began with the fall of the Soviet Union and the advent of the United States as ...
Liberalization on Trial: The Workers’ Movement
The owners of Brazil's automobile and other metal-related industries were caught off guard May 12, 1978, when 3,000 workers at ...
Brazil’s PT: Socialism as Radical Democracy
THE WORKERS PARTY (PT) OF BRAZIL IS THE most important new political party to form on the Left in Latin ...
