num_pages: 240
description: Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New RightWhat does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society and how has it come about? Perry Anderson foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world offers a matchless account of the country's recent political upheavals: after the dashed hopes of the Cardoso years the soaring popularity of Luiz Incio Lula da Silva; the parliamentary coup d'tat against his successor Dilma; and the sweeping election victory of Bolsonaro backed by the Armed Forces and a youthful new right. Always something of a world unto itself under the Workers' Party Brazil had bucked the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism. With its lodestar Lula now behind bars a weighing up of the PT's legacy and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime is urgently needed.
language: English
title: Brazil Apart: 1964-2019
publisher: Verso