A origem do Partido dos Trabalhadores no Ceará: uma alternativa popular (1979 - 1989)

Abstract

This research has the purpose of examining the trajectory of the party of workers (PT), in the state of Ceará, establishing a periodization that contemplates the different phases of the party since 1979 until your arrival to the Municipal Government in Fortaleza, completed in 1989. At the first moment, we discuss the struggle for the organization of workers at the end of the military regime, centered in the cearense case, with highlight in the performance of segments of the revolutionary left, unions, social movements and militants of the Catholic Church. After a look at understanding relations between party and basis, with other parties and social movements in the 1982 elections. Finally, we analyzed the ascension of Maria Luiza Fontenele to the Municipal Government of Fortaleza, in 1985, which is constituted in the first labor party experience at capitals in Brazil. From a set of written, sources visual and oral, we seek to understand the action of this political aggregation in the first decade of existence, in dialogue with the national context, demonstrating the existing political contradictions between the various chains in the party consolidation.