DIRETAS JÁ, UM MOVIMENTO SOCIAL HÍBRIDO

Abstract

After a long period of political suffocation, the democratization process has remained as a fertile ground for the renaissance of American Latin social movements. The new characters, who emerged from the political scene in the 1980‟s, have arisen new and old popular class struggle to the debate. This debate has characterized what scholars name as social hybrid movements. Inside this perspective, we intend to analyse the popular campaign “Diretas Já!” (it was a campaign that asked the right for all the citizens to vote) which occurred in Brazil in 1984. This analysis attempts to understand the hybridism from the remains to the new elements that has made the popular mobilization unique through the second half of the XX century.