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.2
Author: Rebecca Tarlau
Rebecca Tarlau is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University affiliated with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights. She is the author of Occupying School, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
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