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Contemporary Challenges for the Working Class and Peasantry in Brazil

2019; Monthly Review Foundation; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14452/mr-071-03-2019-07_7

0027-0520

João Pedro Stédile,

Rural Development and Agriculture

In Brazil, there have been two recent parliamentary coups against the Workers' Party and in favor of banks and corporations. Dilma Rousseff was impeached in 2016 and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was prevented from running for president, sequestered, and imprisoned. The electoral coups have resulted in a government without a social base in most of Brazilian society. It does not have a project for the majority or for the nation. It is just a project for international capital, dominated by banks and global corporations. This has led to a government made up of many nuclei of power that, despite internal contradictions, remain in agreement as a unit with regard to the project of capital.