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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.
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
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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