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The Workers' Party (Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a centre-left [24][25] political party in Brazil that is currently the country's ruling party.
In 1979, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—then president of Brazil’s ABC Metalworkers Union—came to the placid town of Poços de Caldas, in the southern state of Minas Gerais, to lay the first brick...
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was officially nominated by his Workers Party (PT) on Thursday to run on Oct. 2 against far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's...
Former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula, is now officially standing as the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) presidential candidate, the party announced...
In 1980, Lula joined with progressive union leaders, activists, and intellectuals in organizing the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), or Workers’ Party. The PT was distinguished by its internal democracy and intellectual openness, and many on the left, in Brazil and elsewhere, believed it had great potential for reconciling socialist economics ...
Senior figures in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers’ party on Wednesday filed a lawsuit at a federal court in Brasília requesting that Roberto Campos Neto be banned from making...
This chapter tries to understand the transformations of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores—PT), from its beginnings in the 1980s to its present crisis.
The Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil, 1989–2009. Drawing on historical institutionalism and strategic frameworks, this book analyzes the evolution of the Workers’ Party between 1989, the year of Lula’s first presidential bid, and 2009, when his second presi-dential term entered its final stretch.
Under favorable external circumstances, the pragmatic political and economic strategy of Brazil’s Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party—PT) helped to secure short-term political stability, boosted growth, and supported an unprecedented distribution of income.
As if it was not enough to have won the presidential elections for the first time in 2002, the Workers’ Party – Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) – now demonstrated that it could lead a government in an environment of relative institutional stability and achieve its continuity by democratic means.