
Operários e estudantes contra a ditadura: 1968 no Brasil
Author(s) -
Ricardo Antunes,
Marcelo Ridenti
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
mediações
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2176-6665
pISSN - 1414-0543
DOI - 10.5433/2176-6665.2007v12n2p78
Subject(s) - humanities , dictatorship , political science , art , politics , law , democracy
This article takes up once again the events of 1968 in Brazil, particularly within the labor movement and the student movement. Both were to the left of the more traditional movements and proposed an alternative to the PCB and its policy of moderation, which was dominant in the pre-64 period and revealed its limitations as much among workers as among students. However, the student and labor struggles of 1968 in Brazil were unable to make viable a mass alternative, exhausting itself in its vanguard role in the conflict with the dictatorship