MICHAL BONCZA, LEO BOIX, MARJORIE MAYO and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Kingdom, Young Hearts, Marlee Maitlin: Not alone any more, and Stans
Lula’s toughest battle
RON JACOBS appreciates the suspenseful style of a biography of the path to Lula’s first presidency, and the lessons it contains for working class self-organisation
Lula making a speech in Diadema, Sao Paulo, launching subsidized housing and Bolsa Familia (Family Allowance) credits, 2005. His social welfare programs like Bolsa Familia eventually led to growth in GDP, reduction in external debt and inflation, and helped 20 million Brazilians escape poverty.
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ANGUS REID squirms at the spectacle of a bitter millennial on work experience in a gay sauna
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics
MIKE COWLEY relishes an exhibition that reminds us, in the teeth of establishment pushback, that lasting change always begins in workplaces, communities and the street
ED RAMPELL is disappointed by the confusing results of embedding cameras amid a Ukranian platoon
KEVIN BRYAN reviews Soul 66, Suzy Thompson, and Butterfield Blues Band
With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence
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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