Paulo Fontes é Professor do Instituto de História da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, coordenador do LEHMT/UFRJ e fellow do Radcliffe Institute, em Harvard.

May 15, 2025

Analysis

A Class Coup

Workers, unions, and dictatorship in Brazil (1964–85)

The struggle for rights of Brazilian workers, and its fierce public presence since the end of the Second World War, reached its apogee early in the 1960s. In a climate shaped by the Cold War, many in Brazil's middle and…