Los movimientos sociales bajo el gobierno de Lula Da Silva: entre la construcción del proyecto político y la institucionalización del diálogo político

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the links between the main Brazilian social movements under Lula Da Silva government. The importance of this issue lies in the depletion of neo-conservative policies and the uprising of South American governments which assume its duties with the aid of social movements. The main argument of the work stands that in the Brazilian case the current fragility of social movements cannot be explained by the colonization, cooptation or loss of autonomy linked to the governmental sphere, but by the transformations the Partido de los Trabajadores experimented, locating the Central Unica de los Trabajadores in a place between both poles. The passage from an organic link —in political project terms— to another that goes round specific elements has sealed the political horizon of Lula’s government as well the movements’.