Politics Transformed: Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil

by Hilary Wainwright, Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) became Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leaders since Salvador Allende on October 27, 2002. He achieved nearly 62 per cent of the vote, to become the first left-wing politician to win his country's presidency. But behind this victory for Lula and his Workers' party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) is a long and difficult struggle for ascendancy which began in the early 1980s. Written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899365613
• ISBN13: 9781899365616
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"