The Workers’ Party Self-Destructs
Almost three years after taking power, and after sparking hope among progressive forces all over the word, the Brazilian Workers’ ...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: Union activist and presidential candidate, Brazil
Comparing the Workers Party (PT) today and ten years ago, would you say that the PT is gaining or losing ...
Making a Peoples’ Budget in Porto Alegre
From the time it was founded in the early 1980s, the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) has maintained that electoral success ...
Paulo Freire’s Participatory Model
It is impossible to understand the participatory methods of the lrazilian Workers' Party (PT) without recognizing the important contribution made ...
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 ...
The PT Experience in Porto Alegre
THE PT EXPERIENCE IN PORTO ALEGRE Participatory democracy has flourished under the control of the leftist Workers Party in Porto ...
The Workers Party in Rural Brazil
THE WORKER'S PARTY IN RURAL BRAZIL In Brazil's Northeast–a region notorious for paternalistic, corrupt politics–the Workers Party in local power ...