Abstract

LUCCA, Juan. Tyrian and Trojan: Unions and Parties During the Government of Lula and Kirchner. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2017, n.33, pp.137-160. ISSN 1853-984X.

The Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) in Brazil and the Partido Justicialista/Frente Para la Victoria (PJ/FPV) in Argentina are both labor based parties that reached the government under the Latin American “left turn” on the XXI Century. They specially undertook a discursive position that counteracted with the recent past, its actors and values, and that reintroduced workers and trade unions in the political arena. In order to do that, they put into play a whole discursive framework from which carried out the (re)constitution of a new identity with the CUT (Brazil) and the CGT (Argentina) respectively. In this regard, taking into account the public positions of Lula and Kirchner, as well as all documents and interviews with key leaders from both parties and trade unions, this paper will be focused on analyze if there is an identity convergence of worldviews, especially in the definition of those who are borders inside (“we”) and outside borders (“others”).

Keywords : Kirchner; Lula; Trade unions; Political parties; Identity.

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