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Lula: A Biography
Fernando Morais, Verso, £25
LAWFARE is a relatively new term. In essence, it is the weaponisation of bourgeois law, usually by the right wing.
In Latin America, lawfare has been mostly used to try to eliminate leftist opponents who operate within the confines of bourgeois law. Probably the best known use of this tactic is when Brazil’s far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro employed it against Brazil’s former president Lula.
A brief description of these attempts goes like this.
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