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Mick Armstrong

The Workers Party of Brazil: from radical hopes to embracing neoliberalism

Marxism 2019

The Workers Party (PT) was born out of explosive working class struggles under the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil in the 1970s and early 1980s. It inspired incredible hopes in the possibility of a socialist transformation of society. This talk will look at how those hopes were subsequently shattered as its leadership capitulated in government to a thoroughly neo-liberal agenda.