Lula’s Workers’ Party Has Lost Touch With Modern Brazilian Workers
Ahead of October elections, a president forged out of Brazil’s industrial labor movement can no longer count on support from the workers of today.
Wearing a Brazilian blue ball cap and a shirt in Workers’ Party red, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivered an election-year warning to the political movement that he founded almost half a century ago.
Recalling how he’d share a meal with fellow activists of buchada, a traditional dish made with goat offal, before campaigning with “our bellies full” in the industrial satellite towns of Sao Paulo, the president lamented the waning relevance of a political force that once dominated such neighborhoods.
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